I wouldn’t have thought the importance of the English language in America would be controversial, but our era is full of surprises. My emphasis on English was also a bee in the bonnet of Charles King, ...

The less important English becomes in America, the less American it becomes as well. On Tuesday, Democrat Ismail Mohamed was elected as an Ohio state representative. The Somali immigrant prioritized ...

Mr. Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring professor at Amherst College and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. He is the author of the forthcoming book “The People’s Tongue: Americans and the ...