The Rectification of Names

  "Socialism in Milwaukee": Drawing from The Milwaukee Independent , probably ca. 1910-12, when the city had its first Socialist m...

Scene outside Madison Square Garden, before the big political rally, as reported dramatically by Candace Fleming in  Salon : ...

  Speaker's platform on the hill known as Pnyx in western Athens, photo ...

  Statue from 2009 by the late William Fawke, in the Garden of Heroes and Villains, Warwickshire, via Ellen Herold's Pinterest . Hi,...

  Gerald Ford's chief of staff Don Rumsfeld, right, and his deputy Dick Cheney, 1975. Photo by Harvey Georges/AP, via The New York Times...

  I know I shouldn't bother at a time like this, but no. None of these things should be called "socialism". This probably came...

  Candle stand, 1830s, from the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing ("Shakers") of Mount Lebanon, New York, c...

  Photo by Win McNamee/Getty, via Center for American Progress , December 1980. A year or so ago Rectification Central was exercised about t...

Hi, it's Stupid to say you should stop calling it "sedition". Because what other word would you use to describe what does ...

Update below To the tune of: (Isaac Cole Powell in the incoming Broadway revival of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.) “Th...

The "populist" Maximilien Robespierre, in a contemporary cartoon, via The New Statesman , July 2017. What accounts for the f...

Drawing via Corner Poetry . The New York Times : WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday weighed in on the friction between a group of...

While we've been talking about the correct use of the term "concentration camp" to describe the Customs and Border Patrol...

Via somebody's Pinterest . Gunga Dinesh leapt to the defense of Emperor Trump for calling himself a nationalist: You can't ...

Emin Milli was one of the Azerbaijani bloggers who mocked the government in 2009 for spending $180,000 to import 15 donkeys from Turkey—not...

Cadenette wig. From Probert Encyclopedia . This is a Rectification issue that makes me really crazy; today's trigger is a perfect...

Album cover by Micah Buzan . I just want to keep savoring that bit of word salad for a while as created in a collaborative effort by...

Update below the fold Poor Ron Paul has been taking a lot of heat because of the former campaign staffer who claims that the candidate is...