Myths of Strength and Weakness

BY MARTIN KICH This week the National Review published an article by David French (yes, the alternative candidate very briefly proposed by the #Never Trump folks) titled “Men Are Getting Weaker Because We Are Not Raising Men.” These are the opening paragraphs of that article: “Young American males are losing touch with a critical element…

A Rhetoric of Demonization and Exclusion, Addendum

In an earlier post, “A Rhetoric of Demonization and Exclusion”  [https://academeblog.org/2013/05/23/a-rhetoric-of-demonization-and-exclusion/], I discussed the lunatic-fringe rhetoric of the GOP nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Bishop D.W. Jackson. That post included a re-post of a post to Right-Wing Watch, which drew on public pronouncements by Jackson that have been reported in the print media or…