On its 100th anniversary, Matthew Ricketson considers The New Yorker’s remarkable journalism and vital role in our chaotic, ...

Some English words are more euphonious than others, and there are many lists of words that their collectors have labelled “the most beautiful words in English.” I have analysed 372 of these and have ...

This repository contains a framework for studying how ChatGPT understands and manipulates persuasiveness in public speech. Given an initial transcript, the system generates upgraded or downgraded ...

And Strauss’s policy platform was a pale imitation of the Nationalists’ own: “white leadership with just recognition of non-European aspirations”, a polysyllabic clunker that convinced or galvanised ...