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This article appeared in the June 5, 2006 edition of The Nation.

May 17, 2006

'MAKE THE PIE HIGHER'

Redmond, Wash.

Patricia J. Williams just gets better and better ["The Deciderator," May 15]. Perhaps because I've spent my life teaching English, I think her exquisite description of how Bush misundermalappropriates our magnificent language is her best yet.

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About Ronald Aronson

Ronald Aronson is the author of The Dialectics of Disaster, After Marxism, Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It and, most recently, Living Without God (Counterpoint). He teaches at Wayne State University. more...
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