Tag: rhetoric

“Build Back Better”

By Dan Nexon

In 2020 Election

On August 21, 2020

Let me start with the punchline: Biden’s speech laid out the case that the United States is in a moment comparable to 1932, but with the fascists in charge. He called, in essence, for a New New Deal and a New Civil Rights Era. Our crisis is severe. It requires transformative change, and we must […]

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“I believe the essay you asked me to write is beneath what I have been trained to expect to believe you would have expected from me, and I feel ashamed for you.”

By SEK

On February 27, 2012

(This doesn’t quite rise to the level of the most epic student email ever, and in truth more likely belongs to my series on how to write an academic essay, but as it hovers somewhere between one

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Quizzical Defense Rhetoric (QDR)

By Charli Carpenter

On February 17, 2010

Finally had a look at the 2010 QDR on the plane to New Orleans yesterday. I don’t mean to poke fun of our defense establishment’s hard work. I promise I’ll have some kind of substantive comment

Denounce! Renounce! Etc.

By Robert Farley

In Uncategorized

On June 23, 2009

In trying to break down the “Obama Should Denounce!” crowd into some subsets, I came up with the following five groups: Obama is being quiet because he thinks that US intervention would cause the situation in Iran to deteriorate; he’s wrong about that. Obama is being quiet because he thinks that the US can still […]

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I’m Duly Impressed…

By Robert Farley

On January 13, 2009

The Provost at UK has launched a “War on Attrition”, designed to mobilize faculty around the goal of keeping economically marginal students in school during the recession. In spite of my g