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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Reporter 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 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…
Comments closedThe 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…
Comments closedDonald 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 closedThese are the tricks used by websites to increase click-through rates: Second-person language First-person, sometimes, as relationship builder Hyperbole about knowledge and information Offers of…
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 closedI tried to understand RSA – Rhetoric Society of America – but never could relate to the publications or digital spaces. (I did not mourn…
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