Out d’Coup LIVE | Patricia Roberts-Miller, Prof. Emeritus Rhetoric & Writing U of Texas - Austin on Demagoguery and Democracy

<p>This week I welcome Dr. Patricia Roberts-Miller to the show. We'll be talking about her book, Demagoguery and Democracy and her work on the continued threat a culture of demagoguery poses to democracy, equity, and justice. In Demagoguery and Democracy she writes, "Demagoguery isn't about what politicians do; it's about how we, as citizens, argue, reason, and vote. Therefore, reducing how much our culture relies on demagoguery is our problem, and up to us to solve." </p> <p>Patricia Roberts-Miller, formerly Director of the University Writing Center and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, is a scholar of train wrecks in public deliberation—that is, times that communities made decisions they later regretted, although they had all the information they needed to make better ones. </p> <p>In addition to Demagoguery and Democracy, she is the author of Speaking of Race: Constructive Conversations About an Explosive Topic (2021), Rhetoric and Demagoguery (2019; finalist Rhetoric Society of America book of the year), Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus (2009), Deliberate Conflict: Composition Classes and Political Spaces (2004), Voices in the Wilderness: The Paradox of the Puritan Public Sphere (1999), and various book chapters and articles. </p> <p>LINKS </p> <ul><li>Get the book, Demagoguery and Democracy, by Patricia Roberts-Miller: <a href='https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781615196760'>https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781615196760 </a></li> <li>Patricia Roberts-Miller on the web: <a href='https://www.patriciarobertsmiller.com/'>https://www.patriciarobertsmiller.com/ </a></li> <li>More books by Patricia Roberts-Miller: <a href='https://bit.ly/3KK4x7M'>https://bit.ly/3KK4x7M </a></li> </ul> <p>You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at <a href='https://www.patreon.com/rcpress'>https://www.patreon.com/rcpress</a>.</p> <p>Don’t Let Paul Martino & Friends Buy Our Schools and push extremist pol