Contents
Editor's Note
András Szántó
Introduction: Follies of Orthodoxy
Orville Schell
PART ONE:
LANGUAGE AND POLITICS
Orwell Then and Now
David Rieff
The Limits of Language
Nicholas Lemann
Words in a Time of War: On Rhetoric, Truth, and Power
Mark Danner
An Egregious Collocation of Vocables
Patricia J.Williams
Freedom, Liberty, and Rights: Three Cautionary Tales
Aryeh Neier
Sloppiness and the English Language
Francine Prose
PART TWO:
SYMBOLS AND BATTLEGROUNDS
What Orwell Didn't Know
About the Brain, the Mind, and Language
George Lakoff
The New Frontier: The Instruments of Emotion
Drew Westen
Stellar Spin
Frances FitzGerald
Bad Knowledge
Alice O'Connor
Black and White, or Gray: A Polish Conundrum
Konstanty Gebert
After the Falwellians
Susan Harding
PART THREE:
MEDIA AND MESSAGE
Welcome to the Infotainment Freak Show
Martin Kaplan
Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Heat, Nor Gloom of Night Will
Stay the Couriers from the Swift Completion of Their
Appointed Rounds — but What About Big Media?
Victor Navasky
Reporters and Rhetoric
Geoffrey Cowan
Lessons from the War Zone
Farnaz Fassihi
Our Own Thought Police
Michael Massing
Epilogue:
What I Didn't Know: Open Society Reconsidered
George Soros
Appendix: Politics and the English Language
George Orwell
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