Tag: Authoritarian Rhetoric
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Waypoint 3.4—From the Rhetoric of Valley Forge to the Forge of Fallacies
As the ever-charming man campaigned for office, he looked into the teleprompter, smiled his avuncular smile, and read two polished phrases set in deliberate, nostalgic parallel: “old-time religion” and “old-time Constitution.” In doing so, Reagan cast a kind of charm—a syntactic spell that reinforced a pernicious myth: that the Constitution and the Bible belong to…
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Field Note 3.1 (b): The Phantom Pronoun
The Fog of ‘They’: Macbeth, Propaganda, and the Aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s Murder “And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.” —Macbeth, V.iii In the last waypoint, The Iron Key, we reflected on time,…
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