Recent Exercises

  • Public Engagement

    More strange than academics engaging the public is the idea that academics engaging the public is strange. In the field of rhetoric, we’ve nearly totally pulled away from…

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  • We Need Creative Platforming for Rhetoric

    We need local community platforming for rhetors, speech, debates, and argument. We have to lead it and we need it locally. We cannot rely on privately owned corporate…

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  • Rigid Virtues

    I just read Steven Salaita’s new blog where he writes a very nice, very long piece about his new job as a school bus driver in the Washington…

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  • Argumentation and Star Trek

    Surfing around this morning and discovered that the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, “Measure of a Man” has it’s 30th anniversary today! I feel pretty old. Here’s…

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  • Note Taking

    I used to use Microsoft OneNote a ton to take notes and save clips of things, but since I now am using my new Pixelbook more and more…

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  • Bird Box and Rhetoric

    The movie Bird Box got a ton of attention over December and I happened to watch it as well. I thought about it for a while after I…

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