Once again, I’m on the academic job market and encountering some curious measures of what it means to support diversity, equity, and inclusion. Namely, hiring…
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Lecture notes and other lesson materials covering rhetoric and philosophy.
Democratic primary debates, of which we’ve now had ten, are exemplars of what debates should not be, how not to persuade people to change opinions,…
Comments closedLiberty. Freedom. Justice. Equality. Rights. Privilege. Fairness. (This list could continue to include hundreds of words and thousand of phrases.) Conservatives, liberals, progressives, libertarians… each…
Comments closed“…It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it,” observes the mysterious Inspector Goole in J. B. Priestly’s An Inspector Calls. The rhetoric of…
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