When a flaw or a mistake is made about something or someone, what happens next is quite interesting and important to understand. First, one might admit the truth of a blunder. Then, if possible, begin ...

At the Macmillan Dictionary blog, the ever-thoughtful Stan Carey has a post on fault-finding in language, in which he explains how the impulse to correct errors may “target the wrong people.” ...

As there are many sorts of men, and as the same man has many different moods, so there are many kinds of happiness. There are elevated pleasures, as everybody has heard ; and there are low pleasures, ...