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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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 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 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 closedTeaching rhetoric (especially since I focus on economics) naturally leads to the political. I’ve noticed that when I was teaching within a business school, the…
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 closedOne of the fallacies we teach students is the “association” fallacy. Simply because I am related to a criminal or a professor does not make…
Comments closedIf you do not listen to a community, you cannot learn how to persuade its members. Apparently, it is impossible for some people to listen…
Comments closedI understand the complaints about Hillary Clinton and her loss to Donald Trump. But here’s a question everyone overlooks: How did Trump win? Trump won,…
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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