Rethinking Our Duties to Strangers: ‘Stranger Things’ and the US Immigration Crisis
Season three of Netflix’s hit show “Stranger Things” releases this week alongside a series of manufactured and fear-mongering...
Trump’s Rhetorical Stonewalling Strategy
President Donald J. Trump and members of his administration are stonewalling on the issue of the Mueller report...
‘Our’ Idiot President?
“I would like in the first place merely to point out that in the case of performative utterances,...
“Where Is This Coming From?” Beto O’Rourke’s Divine Inspiration
During the interview with Vanity Fair that launched his 2020 presidential campaign, Representative Beto O’Rourke described speaking at...
President [Noselaugh] Trump and the Question of Character
“It’s demoralizing. It’s unfair.” Jan. 28, 2019, was her first day back at work in five weeks, yet...
Michael Cohen’s verbal somersault
This article originally appeared in The Conversation on February 27, 2019. Michael Cohen, who admits to lying, also...
What Can ‘The Favourite’ Tell Us about the Rhetoric of Queer Letters?
With the Academy Awards scheduled for this week, there’s plenty of buzz about “The Favourite.” It tops this...
One Rhetorician’s Read of Trump’s Second State of the Union
There are eight observations that really stood out to me, a communication scholar of over 40 years, in...
Citizen Critics Live:
State of the Union
Throughout the 2019 State of the Union, six Citizen Critics brought their unique expertise and perspectives on political...
In Defense of an Open Society
The New York Times celebrated a new year by updating its archive of the people, places, and things...