Washington needs to ramp up its moral campaign against Putin’s Russia. So far President Biden and other Western leaders have appropriately expressed their moral outrage and supported Ukraine’s valiant efforts to maintain its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“ at the UN, Africa’s democracies backed the West. They already understood the good v evil equation.”
Parse this statement. It says good and evil are equal (they are part of an *equation*).
These days, “equation” is one of the most misused words in English. In a (perpetually, I fear) forthcoming essay, I argue that “equation” has, outside math and science, become an all-purpose, fill-in-the-blank noun.
Bob – Near the end of this edition, you write
“ at the UN, Africa’s democracies backed the West. They already understood the good v evil equation.”
Parse this statement. It says good and evil are equal (they are part of an *equation*).
These days, “equation” is one of the most misused words in English. In a (perpetually, I fear) forthcoming essay, I argue that “equation” has, outside math and science, become an all-purpose, fill-in-the-blank noun.