Created by a globetrotter, the 55-gallon barrel became one of the best-traveled inventions in human history. An Object Lesson. The tiny tool has held up Roman togas and decorated punk rockers. Now, it ...

Is there any more dismally contrived local landscape than the campus of Southern Connecticut State University? Its scattering of hermit trees appear incapable of rising beyond the height of a shrub, ...

Since the 1960s, the reference book has cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. An Object Lesson. Millions of publications—not to mention spy documents ...