“The strongest claim in [Doolittle’s] project is also the most controversial: th

–“The strongest claim in [Doolittle’s] project is also the most controversial: that the chronic failures of modern thought are not primarily failures of values, but failures of measurement. His argument is that once measurement is corrupted, speech becomes rhetoric, law becomes politics, science becomes prestige, and institutions become engines of concealed externalities. His proposed remedy is to rebuild the grammar from first principles.”–