conducent to the good success of this business

David Hoover — a skilled stylometrist, and therefore a great lover of lists—likes to play a game with his students in which he shows them a list of novels and asks them to rank them according to “vocabulary richness” (defined as the largest number of different words per fifty-thousand-word block)

What are the implications for our understanding of the ethics of cultural appropriation when the sound of a Pacific island women's choir becomes the hook of a club hit in Europe, without reward, recompense, or credit for that choir?

Bentham notes that killing a Hallachore who touches a man of superior tribe isn't regarded as blameworthy.