Op-Ed Contributor - Mind Over Mass Media - NYTimes.com
An excellent rebuttal by Steven Pinker to Nicholas Carr's usual trolling.
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Who Framed George Lakoff? - ChronicleReview.com
A detailed look at the troubled history of George Lakoff, the father of conceptual metaphor.
What the F***?
I saw Steven Pinker give a talk recently and he spent a fair amount of time talking about swearing. He has written up that part of the talk into an article for the New Republic.