Showing posts with label rhetoric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rhetoric. Show all posts
Saturday, September 12, 2026

A Speech Against Assisted Suicide

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Ethos in rhetoric is an appeal to the speaker's or writer's credibility, character, and authority to sway an audience.  Opposition ...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

SOTU: In Writing Only, Plese

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Many   posts  have  discussed  the  presidency .  David Frum at The Atlantic : Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution provides that the p...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

The Longest SOTU

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Many   posts  have  discussed  the  presidency .  NPR:
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Inflammatory Language: Blaming the Other Side

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Many posts   have   discussed   partisan polarization . Jeffrey M. Jones at Gallup: Larger majorities of Americans than in the past believe...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Booker's Marathon Speech

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Victor Feldman at Roll Call : New Jersey Democrat Cory Booke r on Tuesday evening broke the record for the longest floor speech in the Senat...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Language of "I Have a Dream"

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  In the "I Have a Dream" speech , MLK said that he and the crowd had come to DC to "cash a check."  He also referred to...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

State of the Union

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Gary Schmitt at AEI: [P]residents from both parties now view the broader public more than Congress as their addressee. Instead of engaging i...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

How Presidents Mention Their Predecessors

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Amnon Cavari, Benjamin Yoel, Hannah Lowenkamp have an article at American Politics Research titled "In the Name of the President....
Monday, January 18, 2021

References and Allusions in MLK's "I Have a Dream"

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 The "I Have a Dream" speech contains many references and allusions to key ideas, sites, and documents of American civic culture. ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Declining Discourse

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Pew reports that the public is unhappy with the level of deliberation and discourse: The public renders a harsh judgment on the state o...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Words, Public Opinion, and Higher Education

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At Gallup, Brandon Busteed and Frank Newport report: Different words used to describe higher educatio n evoke different confidence ratin...
Friday, February 2, 2018

State of the Union: Reading Level

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From the School of Information at UC Berkeley: Reading Level of State of the Union Addresses Using the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level readabi...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Presidential Vocabulary

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Bill Frischling writes at Factbl.og that Trump uses a less developed vocabulary than other presidents .
Sunday, January 7, 2018

California and States' Rights

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Liberals are embracing states' right s,  a term that -- until very recently -- t hey denounced as a racist dog whistle. Tim Arango at ...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Typos, Continued

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Another day, another step backward for education . On his Facebook page, Trump misspelled miners . a 
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Typos

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The Trump administration is incompetent in ways both large and small. *Handel pic.twitter.com/CNDGUcTfIQ — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) Jun...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Frederick Douglass's Speech

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Trump apparently thought that Frederick Douglass is still alive .  He is not, but his words are.  On Memorial Day , it is worth remembering ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Trump Uses Nazi Analogy

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Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in N...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

"America Is Great Because America Is Good"

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My piece at The Christian Science Monitor : " America is great because America is good, ” said Hillary Clinton during her acceptance s...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Plagiarism

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Peter Schroeder reports at The Hill Experts that hunt out plagiarism professionally say there is basically no chance that Melania Trump ’...