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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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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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 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 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 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 closedThe Rogue Rhetorician blog is migrating to WordPress. I established this blog to explore the academic discipline of rhetoric in the context of the online…
Comments closedWe know that emotional appeals work. Pathos trumps logos and ethos. That’s reality. The ancient rhetoricians knew this. Behavioral economists know this. It’s clear to…
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