In the above map, the size of each country represents its linguistic diversity, as recorded in Ethnologue. It is taken from this NY Times article about Ethnologue. I first learned of SIL when I was looking online to enroll in the Summer Linguistics Institute (SLI) run by the Linguistic Society of America. I nearly enrolled [...]
The New York Times today has an editorial about Saudi Arabia’s new ambassador to the United States. They give him feint praise, while noting that As head of Saudi intelligence from 1977 until Aug. 31, 2001, he personally managed Riyadh’s relations with Osama bin Laden and Mullah Muhammad Omar of the Taliban. Anyone else who [...]
There was a lot of discussion on the web, a while back, about Rick Perlstein’s excellent book on the history of the 1964 Goldwater campaign: Before the Storm. While the book well deserves all the attention it’s gotten, it is guilty of gross negligence in one important way: it completely ignores Marvin Kitman’s run against [...]