Bex Atherton

Bex Atherton is a postgraduate student in Liberal Arts at University of Winchester. Their research interests are orientated around a postmodern feminist perspective with regard to gender, politics, and interdisciplinary education. Their current research focus is on the entangled relation between new materialism and queer theory.
AOC e1658140261243 • Distorted Rhetoric and Forgotten Principles: How AOC is Reviving Oratory in the US
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Distorted Rhetoric and Forgotten Principles: How AOC is Reviving Oratory in the US

There are parallels to be made between the shape of democracy in Athens all those years ago and that of US politics today. In the same manner that rhetoric took principal place in determining the outcome of the socio-economic structures of the Athenian city-state, so too have we witnessed the undeniable power that rhetoric continues to possess in the present-day.