Richard Cherwitz

Are Dreams Instructive? — What Autoethnographic Research Might Reveal about Trump’s Rhetoric

Richard CherwitzJuly 26, 2019

Our dreams often are unsettling. Sometimes, however, they also provide a unique picture of and insight into reality, giving us a clearer and more vivid underst...

Commentary

The Salvadoran Willie Horton: MS-13, Electoral Politics and Racialized Fear Mongering

K. Sebastian León and Maya P. BarakJuly 22, 2019

Willie Horton – A Reintroduction As criminologists, we study the relationships (both real and perceived) between race, class, gender, and crime. Perception...

Criminal Justice

Rethinking Our Duties to Strangers: ‘Stranger Things’ and the US Immigration Crisis

Derek LewisJuly 3, 2019

Season three of Netflix’s hit show "Stranger Things" releases this week alongside a series of manufactured and fear-mongering crises regarding immigrants, cara...

Immigration and Civil Rights

‘Our’ Idiot President?

Marnie RitchieApril 24, 2019

“I would like in the first place merely to point out that in the case of performative utterances, saying something stupid amounts to doing something stupid, an...

Education

Is Donald Trump a rhetorical genius?

Citizen CriticsApril 10, 2019

The Guardian has produced a video explainer featuring Dr. Jennifer Mercieca, managing editor of Citizen Critics, as she explains some of President Trump's most...

Currents

Michael Cohen’s verbal somersault

Jennifer MerciecaMarch 1, 2019

This article originally appeared in The Conversation on February 27, 2019. Michael Cohen, who admits to lying, also says he’s not a liar. Can we separate ...

Commentary

What Can ‘The Favourite’ Tell Us about the Rhetoric of Queer Letters?

Pamela VanHaitsmaFebruary 22, 2019

With the Academy Awards scheduled for this week, there’s plenty of buzz about “The Favourite.” It tops this year’s nominations (alongside “Roma”) with 10, recei...

Commentary

One Rhetorician’s Read of Trump’s Second State of the Union

Richard CherwitzFebruary 7, 2019

There are eight observations that really stood out to me, a communication scholar of over 40 years, in watching President Trump’s State of the Union address on ...

Commentary

Citizen Critics Live:
State of the Union

Citizen CriticsFebruary 5, 2019

Throughout the 2019 State of the Union, six Citizen Critics brought their unique expertise and perspectives on political rhetoric and oratory. The evening's con...

Chats

All Together Now

Ryan SkinnellFebruary 5, 2019

Consubstantiality in the Controversy around a Native Elder and a #MAGA Hat-Clad Teen in D.C. Consubstantiality is a rhetorical concept describing how people al...

Currents