Kenneth D. Johnson’s Rhetoric Weblog

A discussion of PowerPoint?

November 11 seems to be the last irony-free zone in America and, perhaps, that's a good thing, but I do agree with Matt Yglesias's post today: " I sort of wish we called our November 11 observance Armistice Day like they do in other countries. Something that I think is missing from American political culture is the thing that in Europe is take […]

Once again, the remedy for bad speech is . . . more speech.

I confess to being a Quentin Tarantino fan, but, not having any conceptual vocabulary for analyzing movies, I've never understood why. I think Inglourious Basterds is his masterpiece (although unlike, say, Reservoir Dogs or Kill Bill 2, I'm unlikely to want to see it again soon). I found myself speculating, as I often do, about counterfactual argum […]

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