Posted in Conservatism, Political Rhetoric, tagged Environmental Rhetoric, Pat McCrory on May 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
It might have been a bit more “Hardball” than NPR is used to, but I went toe-to-toe today with the anti-science Republicans in North Carolina over their rewriting of the state Environment Department’s rewriting of their mission statement.
The full interview is available here.
Posted in Conservatism, Political Rhetoric, tagged Conservatives, Controversies, Education, North Carolina, Pat McCrory, Republicans, rhetoric on January 31, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
My op-ed today, written along with Scot Faulkner, on the controversial comments from North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory about liberal arts education — and how McCrory seems to be just one more conservative shouting into the know-nothing conservative echo chamber. Plenty of folks have commented on this, including many friends and colleagues in academia. Our take is a bit different: That McCrory is actually betraying conservative principles. But then again, as Scot and I have been writing over the past weeks, there’s not much left of the conservative movement.
Today, McCrory’s trying to walk back his statements but refuses to acknowledge what he actually said.
Article first published in the Raleigh News & Observer on January 31, 2013.
