As of June 2022, Democratic political action committees (PACs) have spent at least $53 million to promote fringe, Trump-supporting, QAnon conspiracy-spouting candidates in Republican primaries…
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My syllabus asks people to respect differences and how individuals wish to be addressed. And yet, I managed to offend a colleague who previewed recent…
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Comments closedDonald Trump knows what he is saying when he utters racist, sexist, xenophobic phrases. I also assume he believes what he says, based on various…
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Comments closedMy colleagues in rhetoric study logical fallacies and reasoning. Yet, over the years many of them have dismissed the extreme hyperbole of fellow elites on…
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