George W. Bush: Public Defender
August 25, 2021
John Robert Greene, author of The Presidency of George W. Bush. Until recently there has been an unwritten arrangement among the members of “The Club”—that exclusive group of, to this… READ MORE
Tag: Trump
From Fear, Anger, and Grievance to Boring Competence: The Rhetorical Journey from Trump to Biden
May 13, 2021
by Robert C. Rowland, professor of communication studies, University of Kansas and author of The Rhetoric of Donald Trump: Nationalist Populism and American Democracy Presidential elections often lead to a… READ MORE
Republicans must choose: Are they the party of Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump?
August 25, 2020
Reagan’s sunny, inclusive vision and principles are the antithesis of what Trump preaches By Marcus M. Witcher, Ph.D. author of Getting Right with Reagan; The Struggle for True Conservatism, 1980-2016… READ MORE
Do Running Mates Matter?
August 10, 2020
Authors Christopher J. Devine and Kyle C. Kopko have focused their careers on studying the Vice Presidency, and have published the first detailed study on what, if any, impact a… READ MORE
You May Also Enjoy: Our Binge-Worthy Books.
May 5, 2020
As the global battle against COVID-19 stretches from weeks into months, many people are bound to their couches to binge-watch another show. The staff here at UPK is no different…. READ MORE
Stock and Lauck discuss “The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest”
April 28, 2020
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats’ so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump. But the… READ MORE
