This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.