Leave politics aside for a moment, if you can. What does the word “conservative” mean to you, outside of that cursed arena? To me, it connotes respecting tradition, caution when it comes to change, ...

Words have meanings. Words have power. Words influence the way people think and act. Words must be used with precision if the people who read them are not to be misled. No honest journalist would ...

“Omit needless words”—the gnomic Rule Thirteen in William Strunk’s original 1918 self-published edition of The Elements of Style—is the kind of advice that means less and less the more you think about ...

Conservative Catholics claim to be Christian. What does the Republican Party have in common with the teachings of Jesus Christ? Give to Caesar what is Caesar's (pay your taxes) and give to God what is ...

Where were you when we needed you? That’s my blanket response to a persistent trickle of emails from readers who keep asking me to, in effect, stop using the word “conservative” when I mean “crazy.” ...

This story now makes corrections to previously reported percentages of support in the MetroNews West Virginia Poll for candidates in the governor’s race: Patrick Morrisey to 27 percent, undecided to ...

Broadcaster and wordsmith Kel Richards has discussed the origins and the meaning of the word "conservative" with Sky News host Peta Credlin. “The word conservative came into English in the late 1300s ...

Tucker Carlson went on his prime-time Fox News show in April last year and told his viewers not to be fooled. The thousands of Central Americans on their way to the United States were “border jumpers, ...

The present political chaos is connected with the decay of language. — George Orwell (1946) Words have meanings. Words have power. Words influence the way people think and act. Words must be used with ...

Leave politics aside for a moment, if you can. What does the word “conservative” mean to you, outside of that cursed arena? To me, it connotes respecting tradition, caution when it comes to change, ...

In 1946, George Orwell wrote a very influential essay with a very bland title, “Politics and the English Language,” in which he described how contemporary political writing had gone soft, falling ...