Rob Goodman

Andor was great, but I wish they gave Admiral Ackbar more backstory. Like he loses his entire team to an imperial ruse or ploy of some sort, and vows to be extra vigilant next time.

"In this view, our experience of aggression isn’t a distraction from what the left would rather be talking about....It’s the defining experience that frames the rest, and that helps us connect with the outrage of the allies we’ll need to turn back the authoritarian tide in North America."

"And in taking on that more ambitious work, there is a great deal to learn from what earlier generations of Canadians did to make an essential connection. It’s the connection between our outrage at arbitrary power directed toward Canada, and a vision of a world without arbitrary power at all."

"In 2025, Canadian politics is defined by one overwhelming fact: we’ve entered a world in which the US is a major threat to our sovereignty and to liberal democracy. The Canadian left has to adapt to that world—much more thoroughly than it has to date—if it wants to rebuild....

Finding a new purpose for the NDP In a first-past-the-post system like Canada’s, it’s not unusual for the major parties to consolidate support in the run-up to an election. But in the bigger picture, the NDP—and the Canadian left more...

I'm in @canadiandimension.bsky.social with some ideas about rebuilding Canada's NDP:

canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Finding a new purpose for the NDP In a first-past-the-post system like Canada’s, it’s not unusual for the major parties to consolidate support in the run-up to an election. But in the bigger picture, the NDP—and the Canadian left more...

In 2025, Canadian politics is defined by one overwhelming fact: we’ve entered a world in which the US is a major threat to our sovereignty and to liberal democracy. The Canadian left has to adapt to that world—much more thoroughly than it has to date—if it wants to rebuild.

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Happy to show up--credit to the folks who organized it!

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People with signs at protest

#TeslaTakedown Oakville, Ontario

The absolute unit sheep; an Exmoor Horn ram

look at this absolute unit

I was on CBC's Cross Country Checkup on Sunday to talk about Canadian nationalism and democracy:

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Great, insightful discussion, Rob, on todays program!
I particularly loved your observation in that nationalism can be a good thing in regard to protecting democracy! 👍 @robgoodman.bsky.social

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A couple of recent CBC radio interviews with me on Trump and Canada:

On Canadian nationalism and Trump: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

On the inaugural address: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Questions linger in Canada about the Trump effect It may be one of the most complex questions hanging over our country these days - What does a second Trump term mean for Canada? Rob Goodman, Associate Professor of politics at Toronto Metropolitan Un...

Me Canadasplaining the inauguration: toronto.citynews.ca/video/2025/0...

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Happy Nosferatalist Eve to those who celebrate!

For sure—if you email or DM your address I’ll send a copy, and looking forward to talking soon!

The publisher sent me some extra copies of "Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective," and I have four to give away. If you're interested, please reply below, and I'll send you a copy (first come, first served).

Table of contents:

"Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective," co-edited by Giuseppe Ballacci and me, is now out from Oxford University Press.

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one in which the cultivation of economic power would make possible an increasing indifference to white perception. DM me if you’d like a copy!

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3) It helps explain why double consciousness largely drops out of Du Bois’s later work. By 1930s, Du Bois had turned to a policy of Black separatism through worker co-operatives. I argue this turn represents an attempted escape from the burdens of double consciousness—

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2) It sheds new light on The Souls of Black Folk, where Du Bois develops the concept, as a work of rhetoric. I propose that we can read it as two superimposed texts: one addressed to a doubly-conscious audience, and one addressed to an audience that is not.

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Thinking of the rhetorical roots of double consciousness can do 3 things for our understanding of Du Bois:
 
1) It clarifies the “causal mechanism” Du Bois proposes for double consciousness—how an oppressive sense of being watched can also generate political insight and power.

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Rhetoric is one of the most influential sources of the idea of a divided self—a consciousness of being watched—as source of anguish and power. I look at how Du Bois transposed this idea from elite rhetorical training to the experience of racial oppression, dramatically raising political stakes.

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In fact, though, rhetoric was at the center of Du Bois’s scholarship for a long time. I show how Du Bois’s rhetorical studies shaped his famous idea of “double consciousness.”

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It starts with the story of how Du Bois placed second in a Harvard oratorical contest—and how ex-President Hayes (the one who ended Reconstruction) took that as evidence that Du Bois wasn’t cut out for further study, rejecting him for a PhD scholarship.

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I have a new article out in History of Political Thought on rhetoric and W.E.B. Du Bois. It’s called “The Rhetorical Roots of Du Bois’s Double Consciousness.”

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