The Rhetoric of Trump’s Zero Tolerance Immigration Policy
For more than five months, controversy has swirled around the Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance immigration policy, which separates families for crossing th...
Ryan Skinnell
An Ambivalent Lament for John McCain
At the 2000 Republican National Convention, John McCain gave a particularly somber speech. Quoting Tocqueville, he said he was, like all Americans, "haunted by ...
America is in the middle of a battle over the meaning of words like ‘diversity’
This article originally appeared in The Conversation on July 23, 2018.
You might think that the culture war over race and immigration primarily transpires in...
Great Television: Trump and the Morality of the Screen
A study by the Harvard Shorenstein Center showed that in his first 100 days as president, Donald Trump was the topic of 41 percent of national news coverage...
Donald Trump and the Rhetoric of Honest Lying
Just last week, Canadian country music artist Shania Twain gave an interview to The Guardian in which she praised Donald Trump’s honesty. “I would have voted fo...
DeVos speech shows contempt for the agency she heads
This article originally appeared in The Conversation on Jan. 22, 2018.
When Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos spoke at the American Enterprise Institute on ...
When the President Attacks Private Citizens: Scapegoating Jemele Hill and the NFL Protesters
On September 11, 2017, ESPN employee and SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill tweeted that "Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself wi...
#Emptythepews: Responding to Trump and Evangelicalism
A University of South Florida faculty member named Christopher Stroop started an interesting and popular Twitter hashtag #emptythepews. See original thread here...
Why is an evangelical megachurch podcast talking about ‘fake news’?
On June 27, many media watchers said the monologue given by White House reporter and Sentinel Newspapers Executive Editor Brian Karem was a turning point in the...
Post-9/11 Terror Discourse Boomerangs Home
Donald Trump loves to say the words “radical Islamic extremism.”
In the last months of the 2016 presidential campaign, he belted out this three-word rallying...
