So is language change progress or degeneration? It is neither, of course. To assert that language change is for the better or worse requires some measure of what “good” or “bad” language is, and the...

John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins’s atheism as vacuous only because ‘atheist’ is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don’t believe […]. No...