Steve the Sophist

A professor of rhetoric shares his views and opinions on debate, argumentation, rhetoric.

Category: Rhetoric

  • How To Survive the Thanksgiving Political Arguments

    Happy Thanksgiving, readers! Tomorrow is Turkey day and if the Northern State Parkway was any indication on Monday, stress is high. I’ve never seen so many accidents. Perhaps our minds aren’t where they should be because we are dreading that Uncle or Aunt coming to dinner and trying to start fights about Trump or Harris…

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  • LiveJournal

    did you ever use LiveJournal? I miss it a lot. The reason I miss it mostly is because LiveJournal existed prior to social media, and was a great way to have a social media style friends list and feed, but it was long form too. LiveJournal though was only long-form if you wanted it to…

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  • Bernie Sanders, X, and Essentialism

    Why is Bernie, or any other left-leaning person still using X or Twitter? This makes little sense to me. I guess this is just another example of people not realizing how their daily actions impact their politics. We need actual dialectical analytical folks out there with the political commentary, not just professional politicians with a…

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  • Rhetoric is too Important to be left to the institutional rhetoricians

    Rhetoric historians – I know you are reading. Please let me know what the analogue is to this issue? I beg you, I need to read some of the historical material. Rhetoric has been ruined by the Institutional Rhetoricians. By this I mean rhetoricians who think NCA is more important than rhetoric; that NCA represents…

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