Articles
These full-length articles & essays dive into a variety of topics with the twin goals of being rigorous/insightful and also being interesting/entertaining. Some of them, where specified, have been published in various periodicals; the rest are available exclusively here.
By Michael Vadon - →This file has been extracted from another file: Donald Trump August 2015.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50261191
on Trump Logic
What the handling of the Melania Trump plagiarism fiasco tells us about the deep structures of Trump Logic, how the Trump machine works, and why that machine is both impossible to restrain and inherently dangerous to American democracy.
From cAve to cave: on Pinker's "The Stuff of Thought"
An exploration of how Steven Pinker's most ambitious goal in The Stuff of Thought actually sort of fails, and what this failure tells us about the limits of what we can say about language - or, sort of, about anything at all.