March 21, 2001
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Another incredibly fun essay I'll never read again: David Foster Wallace unpacks the usage wars, castigates Academic English, exposes PC English as the conservative faud it is, and praises A Dictionary of Modern American Usage at considerable, extravagant, and densely footnoted length. In Harpers, April '01. (This is precisely why subscribing to Harpers and The Atlantic is a good idea)