In my early years as an assistant professor at Central Michigan University, I created The Phantom Publog (https://phantompublog.blogspot.com) as an experiment with blogging. As my first post explained:
“The title is an homage to Walter Lippmann’s book The Phantom Public. As a scholar and professor of rhetoric, I don’t share his pessimism regarding the value of public deliberation but I do understand his frustration regarding the expectations of omnicompetent citizenship. This blog is my attempt to be less of a ‘phantom’ and contribute something to the larger conversation.”
Although the blog was short lived, it offers a sense of my writing style and voice for short-form blog content designed for a target audience of teachers and students of rhetoric. Below are three posts in pdf format.