Post by Caddie Alford

Forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press December 2026. The contributions display an exciting diversity of thought, perspectives, and topics, from astrology to the rhetoric of Christopher Rufo—from ancient Egypt to QAnon to an “Afterwards” of four scholars and a journalist in dialogue about all things “truth.” I was honored to learn from them all. As we write in the introduction, "To insist on the stability of “truth” beyond evanescently shared, existential, embodied experiences would be to disavow rhetoric. But so, too, would be refusing to know the novelty of the variant of “post-truth” we now inhabit. Fortunately, rhetoric has always been before and beyond “truth” and “post-truth” alike. As the essays of this collection indicate, rhetoricians are well-poised to help one another—and all our other others—meaningfully negotiate the constraints of this time." Consider pre-ordering and/or asking your library: https://lnkd.in/eu-cA-Ut #TeamRhetoric #PostTruth