From the Wednesday WSJ: “Managers are fighting an epidemic of grammar gaffes in the workplace. Many of them attribute slipping skills to the informality of email, texting and Twitter where slang and shortcuts are common. Such looseness with language can … read more >

Since 1999, when economist Paul Krugman started writing for The New York Times, he has been drawing the criticism of free market-oriented economists (and recently the president of Estonia) for glaring deficiencies in economic analysis and for writing what amounts … read more >

  “This has given us our worst two weeks of publicity since I’ve been associated with UVa and that was 42 years ago. So it’s been a disaster, it’s been a national public relations disaster.”