In Defence of Ambiguity
What if economic transparency is not all it is cracked up to be? January–February 2006
A few years ago, in his weekly New York Times column on language, William Safire provided exalted status to the word “transparency.” Widely used in the “diplolingo” of arms control, financial crises, etc., etc., it has also become an icon of civil society. So a book dedicated to diminishing this exalted status and ennobling ambiguity is very intriguing…