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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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What Else would the ICC be for?
The ICC indictment against Netanyahu is getting a lot of attention in the media as being out of line. U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham has said that if an ally arrests him, the United States will tank their economy. Joe Biden has said the charge is “outrageous.” But what other method or manner should be used…
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Responding to the Recent U.S. Election
The responses have been poor, to understate it. I see little action plan and a lot of reaction to something that was apparently “hard to imagine” – most of the population voting against foreigners and for America first. I’m not sure who finds that hard to imagine, but it shouldn’t be rhetoricians. But here we…
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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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Three Takes on the U.S. Presidential Election
Take 1: The difficult rhetorical lesson – if there is any perception that one’s economic situation is not as good as it once was, that belief cannot be engaged with any claims about human rights, rights to live how one wishes, civil rights protections or any such claim. This perception can be very minimal. For…
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Is There Anything to say about Yesterday’s Speeches?
A return to the standard formulation of political speech at the highest levels of government seems to be the message I got from yesterday’s event. Was this a victory speech? It didn’t feel like it. It felt more like a return to the familiar and comfortable structure and cadence of professional political speech. From my…
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Originalism, Interpretation, and Really Important Job Interviews
This amazing op-ed from history professor Jack Rakove is perhaps an attempt at a liberal “take down” of originalism, but winds up being a pretty good defense of an originalism that we could all support: What were the topoi and commonplaces of the debates around constitutional issues? What sort of metaphorical connections can we make…
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Originalism, Interpretation, and Really Important Job Interviews
This amazing op-ed from history professor Jack Rakove is perhaps an attempt at a liberal “take down” of originalism, but winds up being a pretty good defense of an originalism that we could all support: What were the topoi and commonplaces of the debates around constitutional issues? What sort of metaphorical connections can we make…
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What the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Teach Us about Political Debating
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates have captured the American imagination on what debate should look like, and I’m really at a loss as to why. They were for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois. Most people think they were Presidential debates. Although Stephen Douglas had presidential ambitions, they were never realized. The Senators at that time were…
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People Hate On Me For This
But Karl Rove is a brilliant strategist and thinker. I admire what he was able to do in 2000 and 2004. Today in the Wall Street Journal he has a really well thought out and amazing article about the election. Why can’t the democrats get a mercenary like this guy? His argumentation is superb and…
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