JUST ASKING

If You Don't Have Something Mean to Say …

By THOMAS BARTLETT

Jerome Neu's latest book is pompous drivel masquerading as insightful scholarship.

Actually, his book's pretty good. But insults tend to be more interesting than praise, no? Mr. Neu's text — Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults — explores how insults — including...

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