


Putting the Public Back in Public Opinion

American Penitence in Our Time of Plague

America’s Cultural Left Chooses to Advance Chinese Interests Over America’s

The Cowardice of Our Half-Trained Relativistic Elites

COVID-19, Science, and the Rediscovery of the Divine
On Superdelegates, the Electoral College, and Realpolitik
The Subversive Intentions of Our Mainstream Media

Why Christians Under Siege See a Cyrus in Trump

The #Resistance Resembles the Flight 175 Hijackers

Make Honduras Great . . . Again?
As we near the completion of President Trump’s third year in office, the partisan divisions on the problem of illegal immigration grow ever deeper. For […]

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Impeachment and Elite Entitlement
These words from the Mueller Report—allegedly uttered by President Trump upon learning of the appointment of a special counsel—are catnip to Trump’s enemies: “Oh my […]

Can We Still Be Conservatives?
As someone who is paid to study rhetoric, I am not an easy guy to convince. But when I first read Michael Anton’s essay, “The […]

America’s Soft Empire and the Problem of Sovereignty
In today’s world, no two men are more responsible for the overwhelmingly negative connotations of the English word empire than George Lucas and Ronald Reagan. […]

The Rhetorical Art of Blame-Laying
As a public service, here are some things that are in no way responsible for creating a “climate of political violence” in the United States: […]
Make Rhetoric Great Again
At the university where I teach rhetoric, an organization called the Center for Public Deliberation promotes events where students, faculty and other citizens can discuss […]