Geoffrey Nunberg

Senior Researcher at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information

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Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information and Professor of Linguistics, both at Stanford University, and author of Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show

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