Speaker-centered communication

by | May 16, 2025 | News & Commentary

I am a believer in speaker-centered communication, which is based in traditional rhetorical theory rooted in Aristotelian ethos/logos/pathos, Enlightenment liberalism, and First Amendment jurisprudence. I am dismayed that this view has fallen from favor in recent...

The ACLU is trash

by | May 10, 2022 | News & Commentary

Helping Amber Heard Was Just the Start of the ACLU’s Problems – The Atlantic: In 1978, the ACLU successfully defended the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, a community populated by Holocaust survivors. But in 2018, following the ACLU’s...

Trump and COVID-19

by | Oct 2, 2020 | Essays

[This essay was also crossposted to Facebook on October 2, 2020.] If your response to the news that President Trump has COVID-19 was “it’s a hoax” then this essay is directed to you. Given all the gaslighting and lying from the president, skepticism...

Why I’m leaving Facebook

by | Aug 2, 2018 | News & Commentary

https://qz.com/1342757/everything-bad-about-facebook-is-bad-for-the-same-reason/ …Facebook didn’t intend for any of this to happen. It just wanted to connect people. But there is a thread running from Perkins’ death to religious violence in Myanmar...