Monday, September 21, 2026
A True Philologist
Joshua T. Katz, "Fit as a philologist," New Criterion (September 8, 2026):
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A true philologist is what friends will call a careful reader and enemies a pedant: someone who uses deep and broad knowledge and minimal prejudice to try to understand, down to the nuts and bolts, the commas and the words in italics, what a document is trying to tell us.
