President Donald Trump is either the most ignorant president elected in a century (or more) or he is the most brilliant manipulator elected since either…
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Immigration debate? Stalled out on February 15. Infrastructure spending? Tax reform? No matter the issue, it seems reasonable compromise isn’t only impossible but also not…
Comments closedThere have been moments this century when social media helped organize social change. Public policy in nations was changed, and social media played a role.…
Comments closedEducation divides us, and more than some of my students and colleagues realize. When I ask classes to estimate the percentage of citizens in the…
Comments closedRhetoric, as a field, has long admitted that pathos persuades more people than reason and logic. The Greeks and Romans recognized the danger of this…
Comments closedThe Centers for Disease Control recently issued a list of words and phrases to avoid in publications. The media (and social media) quickly howled that…
Comments closedThe Rogue Rhetorician blog is migrating to WordPress. I established this blog to explore the academic discipline of rhetoric in the context of the online…
Comments closedLike many students, I started to search for the courses with the clearest, most rigid grading criteria. “Writing” became a euphemism in my experience for…
Comments closedBeing on the academic job market, technically a week or so past my MFA confirmation, I thought it would be clear that the MFA in…
Comments closedDemocracy in Chains by Historian Nancy MacLean was worthy of a few online posts earlier this summer, when I first read a loaned copy and was…
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