Thanks for joining us at Kairoticast.
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 98 – Dobbs
Where to even begin?
In a normal world (or whatever that means) the big news of the week would have been the January 6th committee. It continues to lay out a devastating case against the former president and has even called a special session that wasn’t originally scheduled because of new evidence it has received while the proceedings have been going on. So it’s a pretty juicy story. And the bombshells that it dropped this week were pretty big, no doubt. But it has to share the headlines. I mean, we’re basically having public hearings on whether a sitting president fomented insurrection, and it’s not the major news of the day. That cannot be a good sign for us, as a nation. [Read More]
Episode 97 – Rainbow Capitalism
It’s Pride Month and there are a million reminders all over the place. In fact, there are rainbows and equality signs on logos and commercials everywhere.
But in some ways, this is a tension. There’s a concept called rainbow capitalism that is the focus of a lot of critique from the LGBTQ+ community. [Read More]
Episode 96 – A Headache
In 2010 I got really sick. I started getting headaches. At first I thought I was dehydrated because for a while it felt like a really bad hangover. But the headaches kept getting more and more frequent and worse and worse. I went to the doctor and he gave me a shot for pain reduction but it didn’t help. [Read More]
Episode 95 – Teachers
The field of rhetoric wouldn’t exist without teachers. We have survived because of a tradition of strong teachers for thousands of years, now. And our foundations are teachers, too. The people who first developed what would become rhetoric, who shaped and molded the very basics of the discipline, were teachers who wanted to pass on their ideas to students in order to do something good for their community. Rhetoric depends on teachers. So it makes sense that rhetoricians have a vested interest in the way teachers at large are treated. [Read More]
Episode 94 – Uvalde
I’m back from a hiatus due to COVID and I appreciate you sticking with me. Let me just say that COVID is no joke, and you should get your vaccinations and your booster. It’s rough out there.
I had plans to talk about academics and publishing and innovation, and I had even started on that episode, but then the world happened. Sometimes things occur that I just can’t let go. [Read More]