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Aaronovitch, David
abortion
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
Adenauer, Konrad
adversarial political interviews
advertising
affect phase, of advertising
After Virtue (MacIntyre)
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
alazoneia (boastfulness)
alazones
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
alliteration, in rhetoric
Ambler, Tim
American Dialect Society
American exceptionalism
American Medical Association
American National Academy of Sciences
American Right
amplification
anacoenosis (rhetorical question)
analytical journalism
Andreotti, Guilio
Animal Farm (Orwell)
antilingua (nonlanguage)
anti-politicians
anti-rhetoric
anti-Semitism
anti-vaccine movement
antiwar movement
anti-war rhetoric
apophasis
aporia (moment of acknowledgment)
Areopagitica (Milton)
argument for gullible masses. See argumentatum ad captandum vulgus
argument without character
argumentatum ad captandum vulgus (argument for gullible masses)
Aristophanes
Aristotle
alazoneia
amplification for
on deliberative rhetoric
on democracy
eironeia
on enthymemes
on epidemic rhetoric
on forensic rhetoric
on public language
on public speakers
rhetoric and
Armstrong, Neil
Art of Rhetoric (Aristotle)
assassinations. See Charlie Hebdo, assassinations at
asymmetric wars
Attlee, Clement
Austria, Freedom Party in
authentic rhetoric, authenticism and. See also anti-politicians
of Hitler
morality and
Orwell on
politicians and
rationalists and
simplicity of language and
Tea Party and
totalitarianism and
in Western politics
Ayers, A. J.
Bachman, Michele
Balls, Ed
Basic English
BBC. See British Broadcasting Company
The BBC and Climate Change: A Triple Betrayal (Booker)
Beard, Mary
Behemoth (Hobbes)
Being and Time (Heidegger)
Bell, Tim
Berger, John
Berlusconi, Silvio
Bernays, Edward
Bertinotti, Fausto
Bhatti, Gurpreet Kaur
Bhutto, Benazir
Big Conversation
Bin Laden, Osama
biotechnology
Birt, John
Birtism
Blair, Tony
Big Conversation
communication strategy of
confrontations with public
February Dossier and
“Feral Beast” speech
Good Friday Agreement and
Helmand expedition under
on impact journalism
masochism strategy of
on modern media
Nudge Unit and
political marketing strategies by
September Dossier and
triangulation political strategy
war rhetoric of
on WMDs
Bloomberg, Michael
BNP. See British National Party
boastfulness. See alazoneia
Boehner, John
Booker, Christopher
Borger, Julian
Boylston, Nicholas
Boym, Svetlana
branding
Braun, Eva
Breakfast Time
Brexit campaign
British Broadcasting Company (BBC). See also television news; specific programs
doctrine of impartiality
editorial decisions of
election coverage by
left-wing bias of
political news programming for
Question Time
RATs at
reform of news divisions
Thatcher’s relationship with
British Left
British National Party (BNP)
broadcast media. See also television news organizations
Brown, Gordon
Brown, Michael
Bruni, Frank
Bryan, William Jennings
Buchanan, Pat
bundling
bunga bunga
bureaucratic state
Burnham, Andy
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Bush, Jeb
Butler, Rab
Butskellism
Buzzfeed
Cable News Network (CNN)
Callaghan, James
Calvino, Italo
Cameron, David
campaign finance reform
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Campbell, Alistair
Camus, Rémi
Cantor, Eric
Carlyle, Thomas
Carroll, Lewis
Carson, Ben
Carson, Rachel
Carter, Jimmy
Catesby, Robert
Cato the Elder
Cato the Younger
Cavallari, Kristin
censorship. See also freedom of expression
Challenger space shuttle explosion
Charlie Hebdo, assassinations at
Chatel, Luc
Checkland, Michael
Cherwitz, Richard A.
Chirac, Jacques
Christakis, Erika
Christakis, Nicholas
Christian Democratic Party
Churchill, Winston. See also World War II
war rhetoric of
civic education
Clapper, James
Clark, Alan
Clark, Joseph
cliché
climate change
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
CND. See Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
CNN. See Cable News Network
commercial messaging. See also advertising; marketing
competition
compliance culture
Comte, Auguste
concrete object
Conservative Party. See also Thatcher, Margaret
conviction politicians
Cook, Robin
Corbyn, Jeremy
Costa-Gavras
Coulibaly, Amédy
Coupe, Nigel
Criado-Perez, Caroline
Criminal Justice and Immigration Act
critical audience
critical persuasion
Cruz, Ted
cultural sensitivity, freedom of expression and
culture of suspicion
Cuomo, Mario
cyberbullying
cybersecurity
cyberspace sovereignty
The Daily Mail
Damazer, Mark
Dasein (individual and collective being)
Day, Robin
The Death of Klinghoffer
death panels
death tax
deductive reasoning
deliberation, rhetoric and
deliberative rhetoric
demagoguery
democracy, democracies and
Aristotle on
collapse of
components of
direct
freedom of expression in
modern media’s influence on
public deliberation as central to
representative
in Russia
demonstrative rhetoric
Derrida, Jacques
dialectical discourse
dialectics
diction. See pretentious diction
digital technology
broadcast media and
democratization of media through
as feedback loop
howlround and
journalism and
news cycle influenced by
newspapers and
political marketing through
direct democracy
disputational approach, to journalism
doctrine of impartiality, at BBC
Dole, Robert
Dollfuss, Engelbert
doxa (opinion)
Dr. Strangelove
Duarte, Nancy
“Dulce et decorum est” (Owen)
Dunkley, Christopher
dying metaphors
Dyke, Greg
Edelman Trust Barometer
Eden, Anthony
eironeia (excessive understatement)
Eisenhower, Dwight
Eliot, T. S.
Emanuel, Ezekiel
emotional rhetoric
empathetic discourse
empirical feedback
empty rhetoric
English Defence League
enthymemes
enumeratio (reasons for going into war)
epideictic rhetoric. See also demonstrative rhetoric
episteme (true knowledge)
Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip
Erickson, Erick
Esquivel, Yolanda
ethos
anti-politicians and
broadcast media and
NHS and
Reagan’s mastery of
euphemism
European Exchange Rate Mechanism
European Union (EU). See also specific countries
exaggeration, in spin
excessive understatement. See eironeia
fables
factoids
fairness, language of
Farage, Nigel
fascism
February Dossier
feedback loops
“Feral Beast” speech
Ferguson, Niall
fighting words
Fo, Dario
Foot, Michael
forensic journalism
forensic rhetoric
France
Francis (Pope)
freedom
freedom of expression. See also Charlie Hebdo; Rushdie, Salman
under Criminal Justice and Immigration Act
cultural sensitivity in conflict with
hate speech and
Hobbes on
legal protections of
non-sovereign threats and
restraint and
risks of
in Russia
sovereign threats and
suppression of
in Western democracies
Freedom Party
French Front National Party
Friend, Bob
Frost, David
Fry, Christopher
Fukuyama, Francis
Fulbright, J. William
Gaitskell, Hugh. See also Butskellism
Garsten, Bryan
Gawker
gay marriage. See same-sex marriage
genetically modified foods (GMOs)
George, David Lloyd
Gerede (Heidegger)
Germany
Gilligan, Andrew
Gingrich, Newt
glasnost
Gleichschaltung (Nazification of Germany)
global warming. See also climate change
Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)
GMOs. See genetically modified foods
Goldwater, Barry
Good Friday Agreement
Good-Bye to All That (Graves)
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gore, Al
Gorgias (Socrates)
Gott, John William
Gould, Diana
Gould, Philip
Graham, Lindsey
Graves, Robert
Great Britain. See also Blair, Tony; Thatcher, Margaret
British Left in
Butskellism in
Labour Party in
membership in EU
New Labour Party in
NHS in
One-Nation Tories in
SDP in
social policy making in
Third Way centrism in
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Great Society
The Great War
Greece
Greek Golden Dawn Party
Green, Stephen
Greer, Bonnie
Greer, Germaine
Griffin, Nick
Grillo, Beppe
guilt by association tactic
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gulf Wars
The Guns of August (Tuchman)
Gutmann, Amy
GWPF. See Global Warming Policy Foundation
Haig, Douglas
Hain, Peter
Haldeman, H. R.
Hamann, Johann Georg
Hamilton
hammocking
Hanfstaengl, Ernst
hate crimes
hate speech
HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (Duarte)
Healey, Denis
Health and Social Care Act 2012 (UK)
health care, reform of. See also Obamacare
McCaughey’s public response to
NHS and
under Obama
privatization of
Romney and
in US
in Western countries
Heidegger, Martin
Helmand expedition
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Heren, Louis
hermeneutics of suspicion
Heseltine, Michael
Hilton, Steve
hip-hop. language of
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
Hitchens, Christopher
Hitler, Adolf
authentic rhetoric of
Dasein and
Hussein compared to
public language of
use of false pretexts for war
Hobbes, Thomas
Hoffman, Dustin
Hogben, Lancelot
Holland, François
Horace
Hoskins, Brian
Howard, Philip K.
Howe, Geoffrey
howlround
Hughes, Ted
Huhne, Chris
Hume, David
Hussein, Saddam
Hussey, Marmaduke
Hutton, Brian
“I Have a Dream” (King)
“I Vow to Thee, My Country”
Iannucci, Armando
Igarashi, Hitoshi
imagery. See staleness of imagery
impact journalism
impartiality. See doctrine of impartiality
An Inconvenient Truth
individual and collective being. See Dasein
industrialization, of warfare
information goods
informed public
Ingraham, Laura
institutions. See journalism; modern media; newspapers
Interglossa: A Draft of an Auxiliary for a Democratic World Order (Hogben)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
internationalism. See utopian internationalism
Internet, negative behaviors on
interpretation, as art
IPCC. See Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Iraq War
Italy. See also Berlusconi, Silvio
It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism (Mann and Ornstein)
James, P. D.
Japan, postwar reconstruction in
Jay, Peter
Jenkins, Simon
Jerry Springer: The Opera
Jobs, Steve
Johnson, Boris
Johnson, Lyndon
Jones, Steve
Joseph, Keith
journalism. See also newspapers; television news organizations
analytical
biases in
digital technology and
disputational approach to
forensic
impact journalism
moral risks in
in popular culture
tabloid
war rhetoric and, role in
Joyce, James
Judd, Ashley
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
justified wars
Jyllands-Posten
Kahan, Dan
Kasich, John
Keating, Roly
Kelly, David
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F.
Khomeini, Ruhollah (Ayatollah)
Kiely, Aaron
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King Lear (Shakespeare)
Kinnock, Neil
Klein, Morton
Klinghoffer, Leon
Krugman, Paul
Kubrick, Stanley
Labour Party. See also Blair, Tony
The Lady’s Not for Burning (Fry)
Lagarde, Christine
language. See public language; rhetoric
Language, Truth, and Logic (Ayers)
Language and Society in a Changing Italy (Tosi)
Lansley, Andrew
Lansleycare. See also National Health Service
Laski, Harold
Lavrov, Sergei
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawson, Nigel
Le Pen, Marie
Lee, Stewart
Leon, Richard
“let it happen on purpose” (LIHOP)
Leviathan (Hobbes)
liberalism
Liebovich, Mark
LIHOP. See “let it happen on purpose”
Limits of Growth
Lincoln, Abraham
Lisbon Treaty
Lloyd, John
logic
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Popper)
logos
Lucas, Caroline
Luntz, Frank
MacIntyre, Alasdair
Macmillan, Harold
Maeseele, Peter
Magee, Joseph Gillespie, Jr.
magnification, in war rhetoric
Maher, Bill
Major, John
“make it happen on purpose” (MIHOP)
Mamet, David
Mandela, Nelson
Mann, Thomas E.
The March of Folly (Tuchman)
Mariam, Mengistu Haile
marketing, language of. See also advertising; political marketing
amplification in
competition in
empirical feedback in
grouping of customers
information goods
intensification in
persuasion in
predictive audience models and
product decontextualization in
public language and
social anthropology and
social psychology and
telegrams in
urgency in
Martin, James L.
Marx, Karl
masochism strategy
maxims
May, Theresa
M’bala, Dieudonné M’bala
McCarthy, Jenny
McCaughey, Betsy
McGuinness, Martin
McKinley, William
McLuhan, Marshall
McNamara, Robert
The Meaning of Meaning (Richards)
meaningless words
media. See modern media
Merali, Arzu
metaphors. See dying metaphors
micro-aggressions
Midnight’s Children (Rushdie)
MIHOP. See “make it happen on purpose”
Miliband, Ed
military rhetoric. See war rhetoric
Miller, Henry
Milne, Alasdair
Milton, John
minor rhetoric
Miranda, Lin-Manuel
misogyny, on Internet
Mitterand, François
MMR-autism claims
modern media. See also journalism
advertisers and
Blair on
democracy and, failure of
doxa in
investigative journalism and
public language and
reality television
moment of acknowledgment. See aporia
Moore, Jo
morality
Morning Joe
Morris, Chris
Morris, Dick
Mountbatten, Louis (Lord)
Murdoch, Rupert
Murray, Andrew
Muslim Council of Great Britain
Mussolini, Benito
narratives. See political narratives
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
National Front
National Health Service (NHS)
Nationwide
nativism
Nazification of Germany. See Gleichschaltung
Nesin, Aziz
Netanyahu, Benjamin
New Labour Party
“New Words” (Orwell)
The New York Times
news cycles
news organizations. See television news
Newsnight
newspapers
declining use of
digital versions of
global warming coverage in
Internet as influence on
investigative traditions for
length of articles in
in UK
in US
NHS. See National Health Service
The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
The Nine O’Clock News
9/11 attacks
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell)
Nixon, Richard
nonlanguage. See antilingua
Noonan, Peggy
Northern Ireland
Nott, John
Nudge (Sunstein and Thaler)
Nudge Unit
“O Valiant Hearts”
Obama, Barack
dual rhetoric for
health care reform under
political marketing by
Obamacare
death panels under
Republican opposition to
objective rationality
Ogden, C.K.
Oh! What a Lovely War
Oliver, John
“On Nature” (Parmenides)
O’Neill, Onora
One-Nation Tories
open societies
operators
opinion. See doxa
Ornstein, Norman J.
Orwell, George. See also “Politics and the English Language”
on authentic rhetoric
Laski and
nativism of
objective ranking of language
on public language
on public persuasion
on rhetoric
on totalitarianism
on utopianism
Osborne, George
Owen, Wilfred
Palin, Sarah
Panorama
parataxis
Parmenides
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Paterson, Pat
pathos
Pavlov, Ivan
Pavlovsky, Gleb
Paxman, Jeremy
Peiser, Benny
perestroika
perspectivism
persuasion
persuasive hierarchy
Peston, Robert
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)
Philpott, Mick
phronesis (practical wisdom)
Plato
political correctness
political marketing
by Blair
through digital technology
historical development of
Luntz and
by Obama
segmentation in
sentiment analysis in
to soccer moms
through social media
Wheeler on
political narratives
Political Order and Political Decay (Fukuyama)
political populism. See populism
political pragmatism
politics, public trust in
“Politics and the English Language” (Orwell)
authentic metaphors in
dying metaphors
lack of precision in
meaningless words
operators
pretentious diction
staleness of imagery in
totalitarianism threats and
politics of extremism
Popetown
Popper, Karl
populism, political
positivism, in public language
practical wisdom. See phronesis
prebuttal. See procatalepsis
pretentious diction
pretext, for war
military language in
political context for
for Vietnam War, US involvement in
privatization, of health care
procatalepsis (prebuttal)
propaganda, political
in advertising
by Conservative Party
in slogans
spin and
proscription, as counterproductive
prudence
public language. See also rhetoric
as agent of change
anger in
Aristotle on
about climate change
crisis in
crisis of public trust in
demagoguery and
distortions of
euphemism in
failures of
as feedback loop
historical importance of
of Hitler
in Italy
marketing language and
modern media and
morality and
for Orwell
of Palin
in “Politics and the English Language”
positivism in
puns in
revitalization of
satire in
for science
transformation of
of Trump
Trump Test for
public persuasion
public speaking, public speakers and
public trust
in government
in politicians
in public language
Putin, Vladimir
Quakerism
Question Time
racism
micro-aggressions and
structural
rationalists, rationalism and
authentic rhetoric and
RATs. See research assistant trainees
Reagan, Ronald
cultural context for
ethos and
pathos and
political history of
public popularity of
rhetorical logic of
on small government
Thatcher and
Reagan Democrats
reality television
reasons for going into war. See enumeratio
reciprocal altruism
Redford, Robert
Reformation period
Reid, John
religious extremism
Charlie Hebdo assassinations as result of
Jerry Springer: The Opera and
repetition, in rhetoric
representative democracy
research assistant trainees (RATs)
restraint, in freedom of expression
rhetoric. See also anti-war rhetoric; war rhetoric
amplification in
in ancient cultures
anti-rhetoric
apophasis and
argumentatum ad captandum vulgus
Aristotle and
authentic
bewilderment and
critics of
defined
deliberation and
deliberative
dialectics and
emotional
empty
enthymemes and
epideictic
ethos and
fables in
forensic
guilt by association tactic
in Italy
logos and
maxims in
minor
of Obama
in open societies
Orwell on
parataxis
pathos and
in political narratives
procatalepsis and
of Putin
of Reagan
Sophists and
syllogisms and
for Thatcher
of Trump
rhetorical question. See anacoenosis
rhythm, in rhetoric
Rice, Condoleezza
Rice-Davies, Mandy
Richards, I. A.
Ricœur, Paul
Rome, ancient
Romney, Mitt
Roosevelt, Franklin
Royal Society (RS)
RS. See Royal Society
Rubio, Marco
The Rule of Law and Its Enemies (Ferguson)
The Rule of Nobody (Howard)
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rushdie, Salman
Russia
Saatchi, Charles
Saatchi, Maurice
Safire, William
Sallust
Sambrook, Richard
same-sex marriage
Sanders, Bernie
Sarkeesian, Anita
Sarkozy, Nicolas
Satanic Verses (Rushdie)
satire
Saving Persuasion (Garsten)
Scarborough, Joe
Schuurman, Dimitri
science. See also climate change
advocacy approach to
BBC approach to, as doctrine of impartiality
deductive reasoning and
logic and
public ignorance of
public language for
scientific argument approach to
special status for
scientific socialism
SDP. See Social Democratic Party
segmentation, in political marketing
Seldon, Anthony
sentiment analysis
shadow wars
Shakespeare, William
Sharry, Frank
Silent Spring (Carson)
Siroker, Dan
slogans
Smith, John
Smith, Wendell R.
Snowden, Edward
soccer moms
social anthropology
Social Democratic Party (SDP)
Social Democrats
social media. See also Twitter
social psychology
socialism. See scientific socialism
socialized medicine
Socrates
Sophists
sound bites
sovereignty
spin
exaggeration in
The Spirit of Compromise (Gutmann and Thompson)
staleness of imagery
Stalin, Josef
statistics
Stevenson, Adlai
Stewart, John
Stop the War Coalition (STWC)
Strasma, Ken
strategy presentations
Straw, Jack
structural racism
STWC. See Stop the War Coalition
Suez crisis
Sunstein, Cass R.
syllogisms
sync-bites
synecdoche
Syriza
tabloid journalism
Tate, Catherine
Taylor, Peter
Tea Party
Tebbit, Norman
technocrats, technocracy and
television news organizations. See also British Broadcasting Company; Cable News Network
anti-vaccine movement coverage
brief expositions for
editing style for
forensic
Iraq conflict coverage of
news cycles for
after 9/11
public confidence in
sound bites in
in UK compared to US
Tested Sentences That Sell (Wheeler)
Thaler, Richard
Thatcher, Margaret
advertising imagery and
comic style of
as conviction politician
deregulation strategy
oratory of
public disenchantment with
public response to
Reagan and
relationship with BBC
rhetoric for
Thatcherism
Third Way centrism
Thomas, Richard
Thompson, Dennis
Thompson, Dorothy
Thompson, Fred
Thucydides
Today
Tosi, Arturo
totalitarianism
Toynbee, Polly
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Wittgenstein)
transparency
triangulation political strategy
tricolon crescens (three victory clauses)
tropes
true knowledge. See episteme
Trump, Donald
as anti-politician
anti-vaccine movement and
parataxis by
public language of
public perception of
rhetoric of
truth-telling of
Trump Test
truth and virtue
Tsipras, Alexis
Tuchman, Barbara
2008 financial crisis
Tyndall, John
Tyrie, Andrew
UK. See United Kingdom
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
Ulysses (Joyce)
United Kingdom (UK). See also Great Britain
antiwar movement in
Brexit campaign in
CND in
Criminal Justice and Immigration Act in
decline in public trust in
freedom of expression in
Health and Social Care Act 2012 in
Health and Social Care Bill in
in Iraq War, war rhetoric for
membership in EU
military response to Taliban
newspapers in
postwar political consensus in
public confidence in media in
public opinion on global warming
public trust in government in
during Reformation
religious extremism in
STWC in
television news coverage in
UKIP
United States (US)
campaign finance reform in
civic education on
decline in public trust in
exceptionalism of
freedom of expression in
Great Society in
health care reform in
newspapers in
Obamacare in
political populism in
political pragmatism in
postwar political consensus in
pretext for Vietnam War involvement
public trust in government in
Reagan Democrats in
soccer moms in
Tea Party in
television news coverage in
War on Poverty in
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
urgency, in marketing language
US. See United States
utopian internationalism
utopian rationalism
vaccines. See anti-vaccine movement
Vakratsas, Demetrios
van Gogh, Theo
victory clauses. See tricolon crescens
Vietnam War
Volf, Miroslav
Wakefield, Andrew. See also anti-vaccine movement
Walker, Henry
Wall Street Journal
Wallace, David Foster
Wallace, George
War on Poverty
war rhetoric. See also anti-war rhetoric
alliteration in
amplification in
anacoenosis in
antiwar movement’s use of
of Blair
of Churchill
“Dulce et decorum est” and
enumeratio in
February Dossier and
for Iraq War involvement
journalistic role in
magnification in
pretext for war in
rhythmical language in
September Dossier and
tricolon crescens in
WMDs in
during World War I
during World War II
Ware, John
warfare
industrialization and
military technology and
Warsi, Baroness
weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
Weber, Max
Welby, Justin
Weltanschauung (worldview)
What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics (Lloyd)
Wheeler, Elmer. See also marketing
nudge principle
on political marketing
on strategy presentations
urgency for
Wilders, Geert
Williams, Shirley
Wilson, Harold
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
WMDs. See weapons of mass destruction
Words That Work (Luntz)
The World Crisis 1911–1918 (Churchill)
The World Tonight
World War I, war rhetoric for
World War II
worldview. See Weltanschauung
Xi Jinping
Yeltsin, Boris
Z