Joshua Katz, on “Names, Pronouns, and the Law.” Joshua Katz is an American linguist and classicist who was the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University until May 2022, when Princeton fired him. Widely published in the languages, literatures, and cultures of the ancient world, from India to Ireland via Greece, Rome, and the Near East, he is interested above all in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European and in etymology, which he views as part of the history of ideas. He received his degree in linguistics from Yale, Oxford, and Harvard. Currently, he is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on October 7, 2022.