By Michael P. Riccards The terrible pandemic waves of 2020 have led to a marked decline in the popularity of President Donald J. Trump. Although the virus is overwhelmingly worse in the United States than anywhere else on the globe,… Read More ›
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Some lessons from the 1988 presidential campaign
By Michael P. Riccards In 1988, I was the president of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a rather strange choice for an Italian American from Jersey who was an easterner in his fingertips. But such is destiny…. Read More ›
The politics of remembering the 1918 pandemic and forgetting the 2020 pandemic?
By Phillip G. Payne During our 2020 election, the pandemic has forced Joe Biden to run a modern version of a front porch campaign, reaching out to voters over the internet from his home and gradually assuming a low-key campaign… Read More ›
How important is a VP candidate?
By Michael P. Riccards John Nance Garner, FDR’s vice president for his first two terms, once said that the office was not worth a pitcher of warm spit. Yet if he had curtailed his anti-New Deal sentiments, he might have… Read More ›
Identity over Information
A sociological explanation to why President Trump can get away with saying anything By Benjamin Gross Introduction: The Importance of Social Identities Sociology has always been interested in how human beings socially construct their perceptions of reality and have for… Read More ›
The roles of pandemics in the 1920 and 2020 presidential campaigns
Phillip Payne (presenter), History Chair, St. Bonaventure University Louis Jacobson, Senior Correspondent, PolitiFact Brad Lawrence, Political Consultant and Strategist, owner of Message & Media Joseph Marren, Professor, Communication Department, Buffalo State University Richard LeeĀ (moderator), Jandoli Institute Executive Director
Are political conventions valuable?
Even before the pandemic, the national political conventions had become more spectacle than news. We asked presidential scholar Michael Riccards if there is a value of bringing partiesā leaders and delegates together to officially nominate their candidates for president and… Read More ›
Do we know him?
By Michael P. Riccards He was a media personality, but not a professional politician. When he was called to the highest office in the land, he had no experience at top level politics. He was a notorious womanizer, married but… Read More ›
Are We Better Than This?
By Adam Jones-Kelley Weāre better than this? Throughout this recent crisis, and through so many like it before, our leaders have assured us that āweāre better than this.ā Data suggest otherwise. Stating a thing doesnāt make it so. The first… Read More ›
Bona journalism students continue PolitiFact workshop during summer
Journalism students at St. Bonaventure University are working onĀ PolitiFact fact-checking articles throughout the summer. Last week, PolitiFact posted two more fact-checks by Jandoli School of Communications students: Michael Hogan and Sean Mickey fact-checked Sen. George Borrello’s claim that coronavirus cases… Read More ›
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