In a small office two blocks from the University of Chicago campus, shiny-pated. khaki-clad Count Alfred Korzybski toys with an odd little implement. He calls it the “structural differential.” It ...

What if the way you see things misguides your mind? How does our use of language influence our perception of the world? These and other such questions are central to General Semantics, a philosophy of ...

In a recent post, I wrote about how the collection of grievances towards family members--as expressed in Prince Harry’s book Spare--is not a mature (even if for him lucrative) lifestyle choice. While ...