In a world where spin-doctors and professional propagandists have nurtured fabulation into profitable industry, where outright deceptions masquerade as another point of view, is it ever okay for a journalist to lie?
Burger King’s conviction to conduct “the world’s purest taste test,” while lauded by the advertising industry for its innovation, might best be understood as a logical next-step in what appears to be an industry-wide reflection on the state of marketing: its limits, its discontents, and its power.
Adam Goldstein and Katie Sabo
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Altieri, a longtime Latin teacher at Irvine's Woodbridge High School, interviewed on the virtues of learning a dead language.
As capitalist economies falter, our resident B.A. in Linguistics talks about two of the terms we use to describe hard times.
Why we all need to learn more economics.
The college essay and America’s education unease
Free Markets and Religious Fervor Are What's Hot
Sara Lafleur-Vetter
Daniel Denvir
In April 2008, a New York Times special investigation revealed that the Pentagon, in coordination with the Bush administration, "courted a troop of retired military men to serve as trained PR agents for the White House on major broadcast outlets." In exchange for their good behavior, they received special briefings and political access for the defense contractors who they represented.
