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Our goal at Kairoticast is to show that rhetoric, with all its big, academic and effete sounding ideas, is really quite applicable to our every day lives. [Read More]
Episode 49 – Standardization
There’s a lot of disparity in how the world is responding to Covid right now.
France and Germany are entering yet another period of lockdown right now while the United States is opening back up. All three countries are in the process of administering vaccines and things seem to be doing well on that front, so why the different responses? [Read More]
Episode 48 – Under God
We’re going to do something a little different today and take a historical trip. Today I am taking us back to the year 1954. 1954 was kind of a banner year for America. It was the year of Playboy, Brown v. Board, the beginning of the “domino theory” and the fall of Joe McCarthy. It was also the year that the phrase “under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance, which is what we’re going to focus on today. [Read More]
Episode 47 – First, Do No Harm
Most people know that medical professionals take an oath before they can join the profession called the Hippocratic Oath. The Hippocratic Oath is named after Hippocrates, A Greek physician.
The Hippocratic oath has been through a number of revisions and manifestations. In many ways, it little resembles the original Greek text. [Read More]
Episode 46 – White.edu
Boise State has suspended all 52 sections of a required general education course on ethics according to Inside Higher Ed. The course has been running since 2012. It concerns ethics and diversity and challenges students “to inquire into key ethical ideas and values together, giving equal voice to all who are committed to the public good.” Individual course section topics differ and include moral problems, moral courage, censorship, the ethics of food, folklore, deviance, and human rights. Thirteen hundred students are enrolled and therefore affected by the decision. [Read More]
Episode 45 – Cancel Culture
There’s been a lot of talk about cancel culture recently. People have been really riled about children’s books and potatoes. There’s been a lot of talk about censoring certain ideas and perspectives. I’ve done an episode on cancel culture before, but I thought it worth re-visiting this week since we have been so immersed in the conversation for the last few weeks. And it should come as no surprise that I’m here to tell you – cancel culture is not censorship. [Read More]