How to be brilliant; Claude from authors; Daily Wire succumbs: Newsletter 21 August 2024
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How to be brilliant; Claude from authors; Daily Wire succumbs: Newsletter 21 August 2024

ByJosh Bernoff

Newsletter 58: The five ways brilliant people are different, why St. Martin’s press isn’t doomed, and Kamala Harris’ — er Harris’s — er, hmm. Plus three books to read and three people to follow. Five-fold brilliance In our work, we sometimes encounter individuals who inspire us. They seem to have such creativity and clarity about…

The Chicago Manual of Style passively, equivocally advocates capitalizing “Black”

The Chicago Manual of Style passively, equivocally advocates capitalizing “Black”

ByJosh Bernoff

The AP Stylebook recently endorsed capitalizing “Black” when referring to the racial or ethnic group. Now the other major stylebook, the Chicago Manual of Style, has joined in. But the CMoS announcement is hardly a masterpiece of clarity. Yes. I’m about to critique the style of a book on style. Of course I am. What’s…