Michael Erard

Michael Erard is writer in residence at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands and is author of Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Free Press, 2012).

We need a language beat

Politics and language have always been linked in overt and implicit ways. During last year’s presidential campaign and in the post-election environment, many people began to note the multifarious slipperiness and co-optations… Read more »

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