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Vanderbilt Political Review

Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

OP-ED: What's in a Name? The Battle Over Rhetoric

OP-ED: What’s in a Name? The Battle Over Rhetoric

Megan Michaels, Contributor, Social Media Director September 11, 2022

After the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on August 7th, one might think that the United States government is living up to the legislation’s purpose of, well, reducing inflation. However, it does...

Dean Beasley: Presidential Rhetoric and Who is "Worthy" in the United States

Dean Beasley: Presidential Rhetoric and Who is “Worthy” in the United States

Joshua Mendelson February 28, 2019

On Thursday, February 21 at the Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean Beasley delivered the 2019 Mafoi Carlisle Bogitsh Lecture. Her speech, titled “Enough: Imagining a Political Culture of Worthiness in...

Stories and Storytellers: Reflections on the State of the Union

Stories and Storytellers: Reflections on the State of the Union

czechmexone1977 February 6, 2018

President Trump’s State of the Union address was dominated not as much by discussion of his achievements or policy proposals for the next year as it was by stories. His eighty-minute speech (the third...

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