Tag: rhetoric

  • Two Related Observations: The Consumerist Mind

    Not really in the office today as my good friend who teaches debate in the U.K. (as well as around the world) is staying with me. He’s catching up on his jet lag and we are about to hit the bar in an hour or so. Can’t think of a better way to spend an…

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  • Adversarial versus Agonistic in American Politics

    I would like to be able to claim that I was dissapointed with Obama’s acceptance speech from Denver last night, but I wasn’t. It was so mind-numbingly predictable that it met every one of my cynical expectations for a convention acceptance address. Even the dim glimmers of anything that differentiated Obama from previous candidates had…

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