The New Dis’
A friend and fellow teacher of rhetoric I work with often stops me outside of our offices to remind me of a fairly famous pronouncement from Aristotle. “The enthymeme,” my […]
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Everything You Should have Learned about Politics (and Trump) in High School
Today marks the start of the fifth week of the college semester where I teach, and predicable things are happening as we enter this time. I should, of course, be […]
My Theory of Magnets: Try Not to Mention the Five Paragraph Theme
The problem with change is that it always means people have to stop doing what they’ve always done. There has to be a very good reason for that to happen, […]
My New Years “Presolutions”: The 2016 Version
First, a few important points need to be made right up front. I am a writer. That means I revise. I revise everything. I don’t just “edit.” And “everything” includes […]
Why We Should Vote for the “Insider”
One of the main arguments used to endorse a political candidate these days is that he or she is an outsider. Outside Washington, and usually, outside politics. For what ever […]