
What do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many names. Some writers call them...

What do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many names. Some writers call them...

'Unspeak' is language as a weapon - 'climate change' is less threatening than 'global warming', and when we say 'ethnic cleansing' we really mean murder. In this book, Steven Poole traces the globalization of this phenomenon, revealing how everyday words are changing the way...
