The impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump begins later today, January 21, 2020. Most of us presume to know the conclusion: acquittal by the Republican-majority…
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Political campaigns, elections, and legislative debates.
Donald Trump has been impeached, the third president to be impeached. My colleagues in rhetoric, most of whom were stunned when Trump won the 2016…
Comments closedMinds will not be changed before, during, or after the impeachment of President Donald Trump. The impeachment is not a formal argument, it is merely…
Comments closedDemocracy doesn’t appeal to me, I’ve written before on this blog and elsewhere. The problem is that most of us, myself included, are not experts…
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…
Comments closedTeaching about rhetoric in the time of Donald Trump presents a curious challenge. I don’t believe Trump is a reflective, scholarly sort of thinker. Reports…
Comments closedWhat I find most interesting about this political moment, sadly, is the lack of coherence within the political parties. What the moment demonstrates is that…
Comments closedNot every famous philosopher had a degree in philosophy or formal training in the field. We define philosopher based on demonstrated rigor of thought and systemic reasoning.…
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