Around the world, the document establishes legal, social, and economic legitimacy. But it also makes compromises. An Object Lesson. Carl Linnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy, also had a hand in ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Matthew Mitchell explains how he uses a simple object lesson to illustrate "the principle of overflow," which simply means ...

Since the 1960s, the reference book has cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. An Object Lesson. Millions of publications—not to mention spy documents ...