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Author Peter McDonald was the first to investigate the newly opened archives of South Africa’s apartheid censorship bureaucracy in 1999. He was astounded at what he found…
Dennis Baron looks at the dilemma of being old in the internet age.
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of “dandy.”
Take the “Place of the Year” challenge and win books! Loot, warrant, crook.
On September 22, 1981 Iris Berger joined Pete Seger and 1,000 other demonstrators to protest one of the most politically loaded events in athletic history. Here Berger looks at the influence of sports on the progression of a shared South African national identity.
Rathbone writes, “I had fallen in love with a tart, a very pretty tart, but a tart with stony heart.” Read why South Africa has been his “Place of the Year” for quite some time.
Elvin Lim looks at the health-care reform bill that passed in the House.
Senior OED editor Edmund Weiner, one of the authors of The Ring of Words, on Tolkien’s language.
Oxford announces its annual “Place of the Year”!
An excerpt to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
An excerpt from Asthma: The Biography.
What Rebecca has been reading.
A top-ten-list.
The podictionary word of the week is “brick”.
Professor Christian Kay from the HTOED team blogs about one of her favourite sections of the Historical Thesaurus.
Roger Scruton argues that there are universal standards by which to judge art.