The Elements of Bad Style?

Posted on April 26th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy

I think it was Peter Viereck (or was it Voegelin?) who said about Joseph McCarthy and his enemies, “I don’t like hysteria, and I don’t like hysteria about hysteria.” Well, I don’t like pedantry, and I don’t like pedantry about pedantry, either. Geoffrey Pullum’s Chronicle of Higher Education piece drubbing Strunk and White’s Elements of [...]

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The NRO Credo

Posted on April 6th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy

Austin Bramwell thinks the writers of Takimag missed the mark in parodying NRO for April Fool’s Day. Rather than analyze his critique point by point, allow me to suggest, as straight-facedly as I can, what the actual NRO credo looks like. The ideology sketched below is not just good for Lowry, Ponnuru, and Goldberg, however [...]

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