Breaking Point Blog

I admit that I have a tendency to talk more about language than about substance when analyzing political speech, but then again there i...

I just happened upon a clip from Chris Matthews coverage of the supporter gatherings prior to the Vice Presidential debate.   It is not...

Wednesday’s debate made it clear to me that American politics remains tragically far from an essential breaking point in how people talk abo...

The Buffalo Zoo celebrated the traditionally-last weekend of summer by offering a ninety percent discount on admission on Labor Day. Since ...

I recently applied for a job in Wyoming. It was an entry-level reporting position in a small town, and it was advertised via an unusual po...

Last week’s issue of the New Yorker included an article by Andrew Marantz in “The Talk of the Town” that I found unusually inspirational. ...