… Last summer, President Obama conceded that he had failed to “tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism.” … The underlying and more ominous question is whether the story of our species — the greater human narrative — has […] Read more »
Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Marty Kaplan on Campaign Rhetoric and Reality
Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Marty Kaplan join Bill to assess the true value of the 2012 political debates, and weigh in on campaign communication tactics in the home stretch. Moyers & Company Read more »
Argumentum ad verecundiam
… Campaigns are rife with logical fallacies aimed at whipping up voters and herding them to the polls. Some are deceptively difficult to recognize, while others are familiar but no less seductive. … So with the help of Cornell’s [Sam] Nelson and Storey Clayton, a debate coach for Rutgers University […] Read more »