"Professors of the humanities have long been desperate to make their subjects accord with modernity instead of a chall…"

"If in one way or another a person is afraid of being unable to maintain an overview of something that is multifarious…"

"Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal f…"

"The Seventies French fad was a flight from Sixties truths, a reactionary escape into false abstraction and rationalis…"

"Those who say that all historical accounts are ideological constructs (which is one version of the idea that there is…"

"I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the son…"

"In a certain sense lexicography may be considered a superior discipline to lexicology, for results are more important…"

"Editing a dictionary isn’t like editing any other book or magazine," the professor pointed out. "It’s a peculiar worl…"

"Liberty of conscience was the one great value which the common people had preserved from the Commonwealth. The countr…"

"If it is the drive of our time, after freedom of thought is won, to pursue it to that perfection through which it cha…"