Rhetoric

There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?

We need less name-calling, but we also need to toughen up

Nazi comparisons are misrepresenting the past and the present alike

On “cisheteropatriarchy” and the ugliness and obscurity of cultural discourse

We cannot judge ideas on the basis of the people who happen to hold them

Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them

The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated

To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails

Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective

Conservative attempts to reverse leftist victimology are doomed to fail