The Intersection of Grammar and Politics

In today’s world we like to think of grammar as a mild annoyance that we were subjected to during elementary school. Necessary, perhaps – a basic grasp of grammatical sentence structure is necessary for communication – but ultimately a tedious waste of time. More important than learning cursive script in the digital age, but certainly not on par with the importance of learning algebra.

Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it’s more important than...