Martin H. Levinson, PhD, New York University, is a past president of the Institute of General Semantics, book editor for ETC: A Review of General Semantics, and a contributing editor to The Satirist, A Critical Online Journal. He is currently a faculty member with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Stony Brook University, a teacher for the United Federation of Teachers' Si Beagle Learning Program, which is located in New York City, and a lecturer on topics of historical interest for schools and public libraries.