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The following was in my Politico newsletter:
"Miles Taylor, the former senior homeland security department official
and co-author of an anonymous 2018 essay critical of President Trump,
was spotted in the crowd outside the courthouse for ComeyAs
arraignment. Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate him
earlier this year."
How can the essay be from an anonnymous author if the co-author is
stated to be Miles Taylor? His co-author is not named, but that does
not make the essay anonymously sourced.
The following was in my Politico newsletter:
"Miles Taylor, the former senior homeland security department official
and co-author of an anonymous 2018 essay critical of President Trump,
was spotted in the crowd outside the courthouse for ComeyAs
arraignment. Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate him
earlier this year."
How can the essay be from an anonnymous author if the co-author is
stated to be Miles Taylor? His co-author is not named, but that does
not make the essay anonymously sourced.
"Miles Taylor, the former senior homeland security department official
and co-author of an anonymous 2018 essay critical of President Trump,
was spotted in the crowd outside the courthouse for ComeyrCOs
arraignment. Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate him
earlier this year."
How can the essay be from an anonnymous author if the co-author is
stated to be Miles Taylor? His co-author is not named, but that does
not make the essay anonymously sourced.
Snce the essay was written 7 years ago, the anonymity might well have been compromised in the intervening years.
Den 08.10.2025 kl. 20.00 skrev charles:
"Miles Taylor, the former senior homeland security department official
and co-author of an anonymous 2018 essay critical of President Trump,
was spotted in the crowd outside the courthouse for ComeyrCOs
arraignment. Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate him
earlier this year."
How can the essay be from an anonnymous author if the co-author is
stated to be Miles Taylor?-a His co-author is not named, but that does
not make the essay anonymously sourced.
Snce the essay was written 7 years ago, the anonymity might well have
been
compromised in the intervening years.
So it could have been clarified with "a then anonymous".
On 9/10/2025 6:15 p.m., Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
Den 08.10.2025 kl. 20.00 skrev charles:
"Miles Taylor, the former senior homeland security department official >>>> and co-author of an anonymous 2018 essay critical of President Trump,
was spotted in the crowd outside the courthouse for ComeyrCOs
arraignment. Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate him
earlier this year."
How can the essay be from an anonnymous author if the co-author is
stated to be Miles Taylor?-a His co-author is not named, but that does >>>> not make the essay anonymously sourced.
Snce the essay was written 7 years ago, the anonymity might well have
been
compromised in the intervening years.
So it could have been clarified with "a then anonymous".
My impression of usage is that a text is described as "anonymous" if it
bore no author's name _at the time of publication_, even if the author's >identity has subsequently been revealed (or even if it was well-known at
the time of publication).
On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 22:20:42 +1300, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
wrote:
On 9/10/2025 6:15 p.m., Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
Den 08.10.2025 kl. 20.00 skrev charles:
"Miles Taylor, the former senior homeland security department official >>>>> and co-author of an anonymous 2018 essay critical of President Trump, >>>>> was spotted in the crowd outside the courthouse for ComeyrCOs
arraignment. Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate him >>>>> earlier this year."
How can the essay be from an anonnymous author if the co-author is
stated to be Miles Taylor?-a His co-author is not named, but that does >>>>> not make the essay anonymously sourced.
Snce the essay was written 7 years ago, the anonymity might well have
been
compromised in the intervening years.
So it could have been clarified with "a then anonymous".
My impression of usage is that a text is described as "anonymous" if it
bore no author's name _at the time of publication_, even if the author's
identity has subsequently been revealed (or even if it was well-known at
the time of publication).
Google, thehill
Taylor wrote a New York Times op-ed and later a book under the
pseudonym rCLAnonymousrCY about how some officials worked to thwart
Trump's impulses...
I suppose that "then-anonymous" captures the relation but it
skips past the awkwardness of somehow saying that the only
op-ed byline/ pseudonym was "Anonymous" -- his identity was
hidden for a couple of years. "Anonymous" was notorious enough
that the book was readily offered as a follow-up under that name.
If he's actually printing the word "Anonymous" under the op-ed or on the >title page of the book, as if it were the author's name, that would have
to be a kind of ironic or meta-use against the background of the usage I >described. As you put it, it's "Anonymous" as a pseudonym.