On Tuesday, February 24, 2026, the President of the United States gave his State of the Union Address.  In it, he insulted members of the Supreme Court and threatened to nationalize elections in defiance of the U. S. Constitution.  Even so, you, Senator, chose to aim your firepower

I met Noam Chomsky in graduate school.  I say “met” metaphorically.  His work was required reading for my degree.  He had an idea that language was natural to the human brain, then went about proving it with linguistics–an almost mathematical formulation of how languages