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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 93 – Louisiana and Hale
In the wake of the leaked Roe opinion there have a lot of people scrambling to prepare for the inevitable impact. Most people are trying to figure out how they are going to protect women and the other parties who could also possibly be impacted by the decision, but there are some people, specifically some state legislators, whose reaction has been to shift into high gear and prepare to eliminate abortion rights completely. [Read More]
Episode 92 – Roe
The unimaginable happened this week. Somebody leaked a draft of a Supreme Court opinion. That in and of itself is a story. The integrity of the Court is pretty much over and done with. But it wasn’t just any opinion. It was the Mississippi case that took on Roe v. Wade. [Read More]
Episode 91 – The World According to Florida
If you’ve been following the culture wars recently, you know Florida is a real hotbed. It seems that Florida and Texas are in a perennial race to the bottom sometimes. With Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill that just passed and its abysmal record on COVID-19 it seemed like it would be difficult for the state to get more absurd or to tarnish its reputation any further. But the last two weeks have proven us all wrong. [Read More]
Episode 90 – Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Rhetorical Situation
On April 8th Ketanji Brown Jackson gave some remarks on her confirmation to the Supreme Court. It was, as you well know, historic. Jackson is the first Black woman to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, so her achievements are nothing short of remarkable. [Read More]
Episode 89 – College Isn’t Magic
The longer I work in a college environment the more convinced I become that it just widens the privilege and economic gap. And if it doesn’t widen it, it solidifies it. [Read More]