https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2010/09/13/how-natives-think-about-presidents-for-example/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:39:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2010/09/13/how-natives-think-about-presidents-for-example/comment-page-1/#comment-7401 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:39:35 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1340#comment-7401 I think “a rhetorical pose that is 50% bombast and 50% faux-erudition” is a pretty accurate description of me in college, although I did do at least some of the reading. And I did quote my parents a lot, although that may be a hazard of growing up with opinionated PhDs.

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