Jacques Barzun has died... at the age of 104.

Here's the NYT obit for the grand historian/culture critic. Maybe you read his marvelous "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Wes...

Do you correct people who call CDs "records"?

Well, stop it, because you're wrong. Listen to Jacques Barzun: "The fallacy behind perpetual recoinage ... is to suppose that words...