Inquire Within
What Congress Can Learn from Ocasio-Cortez’s Inquisitive Questions Expanded versions of this essay appeared in the New York...
Richard Cherwitz
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...
All Together Now
Consubstantiality in the Controversy around a Native Elder and a #MAGA Hat-Clad Teen in D.C. Consubstantiality is a...
In Defense of an Open Society
The New York Times celebrated a new year by updating its archive of the people, places, and things...
X Marks the Spot
Identifying Chiasmus in the 2019 Government Shutdown Discourse This past weekend, Citizen Critics Editor in Chief Jennifer Mercieca...
Government #ShutDown and Stasis
American public discourse has worked itself into knots again. Amid the recent government shutdown and deliberation over President...
Critics Chat: The Propaganda and Persuasion of the Mueller Investigation
With the gaveling in of the 116th United States Congress, Citizen Critics reflects on recent developments of the...