By SIU Press

In a culture of profit-driven media, demagoguery is a savvy short-term rhetorical strategy. Once it becomes the norm, individuals are more likely to employ it and, in that way, increase its power by making it seem the only way of disagreeing with or about others. When that happens, arguments about policy are replaced by arguments about identity – and criticism is met with accusations that the critic has the wrong identity (weak, treacherous, membership in an out-group) or the wrong feelings (uncaring, heartless).

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Posted on January 25, 2019

By Elizabeth Oglesby/The Conversation

In the United States’ heated national debate about immigration, two views predominate about Central American migrants: President Donald Trump portrays them as a national security threat, while others respond that they are refugees from violence.
Little is said about the substantial contributions that Central Americans have made to U.S. society over the past 30 years.

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Posted on January 21, 2019

By Len Davis/YouTube

‘Owner Joseph Judd of Myopic Books on Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park talks about bookstore life, his changing neighborhood, the emergence of online book sellers, and much more in a wide ranging interview for the CITY 2000 project, an archive now housed at the UIC. Subscribe to and enjoy lots more great videos from Chicago and around the world on this channel and at my website.’

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Posted on January 8, 2019