Bruce Joshua Miller

The world still needs its dictionaries, but how we define them is changing

May 9, 2019 at 10:02 p.m.

At a recent dinner party I brought up the subject of dictionaries, drawing a sharp and immediate response: "Dictionary?" said a friend, "Who needs a dictionary? If I need a...

‘Curiosity’s Cats’ editor recounts Mad Bomber research

May 9, 2019 at 9:44 p.m.

"I have let loose enough information in my letters it seems to isolate a grain of sand in a bucket." — From an anonymous letter George Metesky sent to a...

BLINDERS IN PLACE

August 19, 2021 at 5:43 a.m.

Rep. Henry Hyde's wide-ranging attack on "liberals" ("The liberal view comes with blinders," Voice, Sept. 27) reminded me once again how effective the rhetorical strategy adopted by the Republicans has...

GOP `REFORM’

August 19, 2021 at 7:28 a.m.

Nowhere is Republican hypocrisy more obvious than in the multi-million dollar extravagance known as the Whitewater investigation and concomitant congressional hearings. A perfect example of this difference between Republican rhetoric...

POWER PLAN

August 19, 2021 at 2:52 a.m.

I do not understand why the utility company that governs our electrical consumption in the City of Chicago failed to put together a plan that would ration the flow of...

AD CHALLENGED

August 9, 2021 at 4:26 p.m.

On Oct. 6, the Chicago Tribune ran a full-page advertisement paid for by a shadowy group calling itself the "Western Journalism Center." The headline posed a question: "Vincent Foster's Death:...

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