Category: Rhetoric

  • A Mix

    I’m typing on my device, with my thumbs, while riding an M14A bus through a neighborhood that feels like it is slipping away, in a city that stays so vital despite itself. I loved taking my son with me to vote. I loved voting for the first female presidential candidate, even as I wish I…

  • All Of The Above

    In the week between the Republican and Democratic national conventions I had a travel day that ended up running several hours long, taking me from Raleigh, where I’d been teaching, to DC, where I was supposed to change planes, then back to Charlotte because of equipment failure, and then ultimately to Minneapolis, where I would…

  • Occupiers

    Occupiers

    Part of what moves me so much about the Occupy Wall Street protests and their offshoots is the earnestness. Part of it is the times we live in seeming to demand direct action, part of it is the commitment to non-violence and to thoughtful communication. But probably the biggest part of it for me is…