Quoting The Art of War, an ancient Chinese war manual dating from the 5th century BCE, has become a cliché. It is, alas, the hallmark of teen edgelords, management gurus and, as one of my ...

"The Art of War" by Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, is one of corporate America's favorite books. But John McWhorter, a linguistics professor at Columbia, isn't convinced about its utility.

Nylan’s translation of “The Art of War,” however, is marvelously pointy and plainspoken. Each sentence is a struck match. Her version of one well-known section begins: ...