A month ago, President Donald Trump unabashedly celebrated the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller. “Good, I’m glad ...

Two days after an armed man tried to enter the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, White House Press Secretary ...

Rhetoric is a foundation of the humanities focused on understanding the practices of human communication. Rhetoric’s interests span from the earliest acts of speech to emerging modes of digital ...

We are currently accepting Fall 2026 applications for our Ph.D. program only. Are you interested in writing and the teaching of writing? Digital composing and remix? Intercultural rhetorics? The ...

Elon Musk responded to the Trump campaign’s release of over 50 examples of Democrats’ rhetoric that allegedly “inspired assassination attempt” on former President Donald Trump. What Happened: On ...

The shifting technological and media landscape of our globalized world constantly offers up new objects and fresh questions for examination. At Michigan Technological University, we’re training a new ...

When people use the term “rhetoric” these days, they usually mean empty language — be it high-flown or spoken in high dudgeon. A few may think of rhetoric as a deadly classical discipline devoted to ...

Rhetoric has been broadly defined as the art of persuasion. Unfortunately, in the last two centuries, rhetoric has suffered a rather bad reputation because it has been deliberately overused to mislead ...

When it comes to public relations, the much-maligned AR-15 has had a rough go of late. Blamed for everything from the bubonic plague to school shootings it was actually used in (because as we all know ...