As the ginned up education panic intensifies across the nation, Bradford Vivian counters the propaganda with a calm and rational assessment of actually existing higher education practices. Vivian shows how the common tropes of the education panic do not accurately reflect the reality at American colleges and universities and how the controversies over free speech, diversity, and critical race theory are part of an authoritarian power grab to control higher
education."
Bradford Vivian is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and past Director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at Penn State University. His previous books include Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture (OUP 2017) and Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again (2010), which received the Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric
and Public Address awarded by the National Communication Association.