Oct 28, 2022 50 min

Words as Weapons

from The Human Action Podcast Hosted by Mises Institute

Criticisms of hapless Senate candidate John Fetterman are labeled "ableist," while Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter is deemed fascist. Jeff and Bob take a hard look at the linguistic battlefield and the corruption of language as an institution. Jeff's paper on language, "Evolution or Corruption?": https://Mises.org/HAP367-1 George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language": https://Mises.org/HAP367-2 Ken Smith's Junk English: https://Mises.org/HAP367-3 Bryan Caplan on "Privilege": https://Mises.org/HAP367-4

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