Understanding the 2024 election as a (slim) rejection of “cultural elites” can help us reflect on the appeal of Donald Trump (or “Donald J. Trump,”…
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Mass media and their role in public policy and cultural debates.
Remarkably few doctoral program graduates obtain the tenure-track university posts to which most aspire. I often envied the Ph.D. computer scientists working at tech companies…
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Donald Trump’s town hall marked a ratings high for CNN, but the March 10, 2023, event also came with a price for the cable news…
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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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January 6, 2021, was not the culmination of Donald Trump’s narcissistic embrace of conspiracies. Instead, the day was a midpoint in Trumpism and the decline of…
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What does it say about our cynicism when criminals deliver what we consider “real” justice in popular fiction? The fictional antiheroes I enjoy raise many…
Comments closedReporter and podcaster Jesse Singal has given us a wonderful look into how and why social sciences promote junk science. The Quick Fix: Why Fad…
Comments closedAs readers of this blog and colleagues familiar with my approach to rhetoric know, I argue consistently that rhetoricians should be as familiar with statistics…
Comments closed“You really should be speaking out about…” a colleague will begin. I recognize the opening and anticipate the polite “suggestion” that I take a public…
Comments closedFor many years, I thought of Rush Limbaugh as the satirical version of a radical conservative. I assumed it was all a joke because that’s…
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