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Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Members' Room | Open to the Public

Economist correspondent Greene’s groundbreaking and controversial book examines the prejudices that cause governments, nationalists and experts to control people’s language, defining “us” and distancing “them.”

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