Geoffrey Nunberg

“It's important that these people think of their adversaries specifically as assholes. That's what gives the modern rhetoric of polarization its singular…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“When Roger Ailes said that NPR executives were 'the left wing of Nazism," he wasn't trying to tar NPR as evil in…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“It's not odd these days to hear politicians trumpeting their own authenticity, a claim that an earlier day would have considered self-cancelling.…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

When the world changes, correlation goes away… Causals are what endure.

— Geoffrey Nunberg

The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script,…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“The English language is shot through with idioms and expressions which allude to violence without inciting it, most of which pass without…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“Donald Trump comes closer than anyone else to being the archetype of the species; crossing genres, he exemplifies all the ways an…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

Few people become assholes reluctantly.

— Geoffrey Nunberg

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“Culpable obtuseness. He should know better. That's one reason why we don't use the a-word, for example, of little children. They can…

— Geoffrey Nunberg