Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Deriving his approach from the contemporary French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who had posited an absolute gap ...

Discussion of "alternative facts" has gained sad notoriety in US politics. Yet the question has been around much longer: How do people conduct political debates—is the focus more on facts or personal ...

A month ago, President Donald Trump unabashedly celebrated the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead,” Trump said. “He can no longer hurt innocent people!” On Monday, ...

Stoner, M. (2020). Making Sense of Messages: A Critical Apprenticeship in Rhetorical Criticism, 2nd ed Stoner, M. & Perkins, S. (2005) Making Sense of Messages: A Critical Apprenticeship in Rhetorical ...

When conducting rhetorical analysis, you’re attempting to answer "How and why a composer/speaker attempts to appeal to an audience in order to convey a purpose?" By explaining those ideas through your ...

After the fatal shooting of Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk, Fox News host Jesse Watters blamed the left for the killing and called for revenge. Watters told viewers, "They are at war with us.

Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies offer an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human communication that focuses on the intersectional nature of meaning and knowledge. Rhetoric is a vital ...