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Retired Professor, Writing Center Director, Scholar of train wrecks in public deliberation

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Formerly Professor of Rhetoric and Writing and former Director of the University Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, I’ve retired from full-time teaching in order to have more time for writing, hosting workshops, visiting campuses and classrooms, podcasts, and any other way I can get people to listen to me. I’m also the author of Speaking of Race: How to Have Antiracist Conversations that Bring Us Together (Experiment 2021), Rhetoric and Demagoguery (2019), Demagoguery and Democracy (2017), Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus (2009), Deliberate Conflict: Argument, Political Theory, and Composition Classes (2004), and Voices in the Wilderness: Public Discourse and the Paradox of the Puritan Rhetoric (1999).

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Please stop using the horse race/selling frame to talk about this election
What’s next?
Why can’t you get Trump supporters to engage in a reasonable conversation about Trump and his policies?
Strategically Ambiguous Hyperbole
How to argue badly: assume that need = plan
Our political discourse sucks because it’s gerfucked by the rational/irrational split
Primary v. Secondary Sources
What’s wrong with calls for “civility”
Mission Statements and War
Talking about Deliberating War on a fun podcast
People need to stop worrying about cursive
Deliberating War is published!
[RSA talk III] Under which conditions is democratic speech (im)possible?
[RSA talk] “Obscured Ends and Amoral Means: The Flickering Moralism of Machiavellian Approaches to Rhetoric”
Laws of history

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What it’s like when you’ve been reading Nuremburg Interrogations, Tapping Hitler’s Generals, Shattered Genius, The End, The Wehrmacht Retreats, and Trump Administration officials saying they’re protecting America by standing by Trump

Characteristics of Demagoguery

On being nice to Trump supporters

Advice on Writing

How to argue about whether something is racist

Why Republicans shout

Understanding Misunderstandings: How to do a Rhetorical Analysis

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Other places I’m talking about rhetoric

Mere Rhetoric on demagoguery and democracy

Crackers and Grapejuice

About the edited collection “Rhetoric and Guns”

Flogging the Demagogues (one of my favorites)

Keen On “Speaking of Race”

Comedy Cellar: Live From the Table

Van Jones on Trump and demagoguery

Unbecoming a Democracy

Demagogues are more common than you think

“Media, Rhetoric, and Demagoguery of the Elite.” Media Ethics Spring 2018, Vol. 29, No. 2

John Stoehr, “Trump ‘Demagogue’ Stephen Miller Deserves Jake Tapper’s CNN Smackdown,” Newsweek (January 8, 2018).

John Stoehr, “A Party of Demagogues: Republicans are degrading democracy by promoting identity politics over public debate.” USNews & World Report (Oct. 11, 2017)

“Demagoguery vs. democracy: How ‘us vs. them’ can lead to state-led violence.” Salon 6/10/2017

The always charming Tomefoolery podcast, this time about McCarthy

A Humanities Minute Podcast, mostly about academic writing.

A zeugma podcast, about procrastination and academic writing.

“9 to 5.” Inside Higher Ed. 8/25/2014

“Facing Tenure Rejection.” Inside Higher Ed. 4/2/2014

At the University of Denver, talking about demagoguery. 2/10/2017

USEFUL SITES AND LINKS

Jesse Singal, “Why Some Protests Succeed While Others Fail”

John Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, “A surprising number of Americans dislike how messy democracy is. They like Trump.”

Jay Smooth, “How to Tell Someone They Sound Racist.”

ASAP Science, “The Science of Procrastination.”

Daniel Shea, “Why some are applauding Donald Trump Jr’s ‘win at all costs’ attitude”

An extraordinary collection of Nazi and East German Propaganda

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