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August 2, 2022
Offenses of the Month, February to July
February
If You Can’t Say Something that Cannot Possibly Be Misinterpreted, Don’t
The story is as short as it is brutal. […]
July 27, 2022
As I have mused in many earlier posts, offensiveness is not easily defined and what makes a word or phrase offensive to some, or all, […]
June 14, 2022
I thought I’d wait until you’ve forgotten Ilya Shapiro for the second time. We last contemplated his plight back in mid-February, when […]
February 16, 2022
Offense of the Month, January 2021
Our designated offender of the month is Ilya Shapiro, the once-about-to-be-and-perhaps-future-executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, […]
December 31, 2021
It’s that time of year when earnest greetings arrive on every puff of air and cloud extending heartfelt wishes of good cheer and universal joy […]
December 31, 2021
Offenses of the Month, 2021
When 2021 began, I thought it was a year destined for quiet and change, one that I could devote to[…]
November 17, 2020
What would you do if you discovered that one of your good friends has been physically abusing his wife for as long as you’d known […]
November 17, 2020
Offenses of the Month, Fall 2020
Dr. Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), for those of you who can’t quite place the name, was the family sanitizer of […]
October 9, 2020
Offense of the Month, August 2020
It’s been remarked (in these pages, at least) that the wages of giving offense are often worse than actual […]
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