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Lael Ewy

Volunteer Language Commentator

Lael Ewy is a co-founder and editor of EastWesterly Review, a journal of literary satire at www.postmodernvillage.com, and a writer whose work has appeared in such venues as Denver Quarterly and New Orleans Review and has been anthologized in Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh.

He provided commentary for the Wichita City Paper and articles for Naked City.

He holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a Bachelor of General Studies from Wichita State. Lael supports his writing and reading habits as a lecturer in English at WSU and as a peer educator at WSU's Center for Community Support and Research.

He runs an unaccredited Volvo hospice and is the current caretaker of a family heirloom, a 1965 Ford Mustang.

For fun he wrestles philosophy and literary theory.

  • Virtue signaling is a term describing people publicly declaring their positions on various issues of the day, using print, speech, or social media to…
  • As we move into the holiday season, it seems like a good time to consider the ways we use the word holiday and its implications.Originally meaning “holy…
  • Social media have spawned many new words, and now they bring us “influencer.”Social media influencers are distinguished by their use of YouTube,…
  • As a new school year gets under way, both students and teachers are likely to report some anxiety.“Anxiety” is a word with both clinical and common…
  • For a one-syllable word of little sparkle or fire, “dope” has an interesting variety of meanings.Prominent over the last century or so is the use of…
  • The term “confirmation bias” has come to the fore recently, describing everything from the publication of scientific papers to polls of public opinion.…
  • Conspiracy theories have been around a long time—from speculations about what happened to the children of the Russian royal family after the revolution to…
  • A few terms we have to protect from the unstable landscape of language, and I nominate “slippery slope” as one of them.Pundits, news analysts, and…
  • As language users, we reserve the right to make up words.There’s nothing wrong with this, as long as those with whom we are communicating understand what…
  • Among the many things Millennials are supposed to have killed is the word “adult.”For evidence of this, their critics look no further than the word…