Terrorism & Middle East Policy

It’s not just violent rhetoric, it’s the power of rhetorical violence we should be worried about

Heather Ashley HayesOctober 31, 2018

It’s a scary time in America. In October of 2018 alone, a Florida man driving a van papered with pro-Trump images was arrested on suspicion of sending fourte...

Post-9/11 Terror Discourse Boomerangs Home

Heather Ashley HayesAugust 4, 2017

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...

What Terrorism Discourse Invoking Hitler Tells Us About Language

Matthew BoedyMay 30, 2017

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is the most recent in a long line of people who have committed the logical fallacy of reductio ad Hitlerum. See Hank Wil...

A Complicated Understanding of Friendship: The Discourse of U.N. Resolution 2334

Heather Ashley HayesJanuary 20, 2017

Sometime as a kid, many of us learn: friendship is one of the keys to happiness, laughter, success, and personal fulfillment. The support that comes with friend...