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Recent Blog Postings

• BRETT ALAN SANDERS: Pledging Allegiance [Arte Retórica #1] ...there are in cities men who hate the people (demos), and if ever the lot falls to them they will destroy the people (demos). But the people itself ought to keep watch and elect all those who are we ... • WILLIAM STUDEBAKER: Has Poetry, Worse Yet Poets, Become Middle Class? Well, when I look at it historically, I think the great art of poetry is driven by the intellectuals, Bohemians, and the estranged. Think of Pound, Bukowski, the Beats, Walt Whitman. However, the Midd ... • BRETT ALAN SANDERS: The writer as a link of a chain: An Interview with Sebastián R. Bekes [Arte Retórica #2] When publisher Rosa Martha Villarreal invited me to contribute to "Tertullian's Blog," one of my first thoughts was that it would be nice to post an interview with my friend Sebastián ... • ROSA MARTHA VILLARREAL: The Age (That Never Was) of Aquarius In the spring of 2006, the cable television network Showtime re-released Liza Minnelli’s 1972 Emmy Award-winning special “Liza With a Z.” The New York Times television critic co ... • FRANCISCO ARAGÓN: E-conversation with the Editors of the Indiana Review I never thought I’d put finger to keyboard for the purposes of contributing to a web log! But what I have enjoyed about some of what I’ve encountered on certain blogs is the conversations  ...

Latest Tertullian's Blog Postings

• ROSA MARTHA VILLARREAL: Are Cutures, As Represented by the U.S. and Mexico, Really Equal?   One of the complaints by critics of multiculturalism is that, contrary to what this philosophy posits, cultures are not truly equal. The critics in the U.S. use Mexico—its culture a ... • BRETT ALAN SANDERS: Kenneth Burke and the Terministic Screen [Arte Retórica #8] In my last number of this series of essays on the rhetorical arts, I alluded (in the context of Barack Obama’s speech on race, and of the ongoing flak over his association with the Rev. Wright)  ... • BRETT ALAN SANDERS: On the Rooseveltian Rhetoric of Barack Obama [Arte Retórica #7] Very little if anything, in the realm of political discourse, is actually self-evident, regardless of what our nation’s Founders held to be so when they declared its independence from foreign ty ...

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