Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times
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The "Fresh Air" commentator and New York Times contributor artfully shows how our use of language reveals the true mindset of contemporary America The Washington Post - David Greenberg Although Nunberg ranges over many kinds of words, including shrewd meditations on the teenager's "like" and the growing vogue of "Caucasian" instead of "white" -- his observations on political speech are especially valuable in revealing how words inform our understanding of issues.
IntroductionCulture at largePlastics!3Keeping ahead of the Joneses8Caucasian talk circles12Near myths17Lamenting some enforced chastity21Stolen words25Beating their brows29Prurient interests33War drumsWhen words fail39A name too far42Beleaguered infidel47It all started with Robespierre51It may be banal but it's bad news55Going nucular59Appease porridge hot63The second casualty67Naming of foreign parts72The syntax of resistance75A couple of words for nothing left to lose79The Gallic subject84Begin the regime88We'll always have Kirkuk92Politics as usualSo sorry99Some of my best friends103Interested parties107Me, too, too112Slippery slopes117If it's Orwellian, it's probably not121Meetings of the minds126Lattes, limousines, and libs131Where the left commences135A fascist in every garage139Class dismissed144Special effects148SymbolsA date to remember155Our nation's favorite song159The last refuge of scoundrels and other people163Pledge break168Media wordsRush Limbaugh's plurals175The politics of polysyndeton179The speech that turns mere presidents into talk show hosts184I seeing the news today, oh boy188Roil pain192Business cyclesFor love or money199The triumph of capitalism202A good old-gentlemanly vice206The vision thing210Initiating mission-critical jargon reduction214Farewell to the Alero218100 percent solutions222Tech talkAs Google goes, so goes the nation227I have seen the future, and it blogs231Prefixed out235The icebox goeth238Watching our languageDeceptively yours243The bloody crossroads of grammar and politics246Letter perfect251A thousand pictures255All that you can bee260Like, wow!264Lucubratin' rhythm268Ain't misbehavin'271There are no postmodernists in a foxhole275Adverbially yours279Word index283Subject index289
