COLUMNS
Mark Ward Sr writes a monthly “Communication Corner” opinion column for the Victoria Advocate newspaper that shows how communication theories and concepts can be applied to current issues of national and local concern.
2024
- Black-and-white Thinking Gets Us Nowhere, December 4, 2024
- Will Victoria Be the Next News Desert? November 6, 2024
- Religion and Politics, or Religion “as” Politics, October 4, 2024
- “What Ifs” of the 2024 Election, September 4, 2024
- Style or Substance, It’s Your Vote, August 7, 2024
- Thoughts on “A Town Called Victoria,” July 5, 2024
- The ‘Hush Money’ Trial and a Lesson in Rhetoric, June 21, 2024
- When We No Longer Read Books, June 5, 2024
- April is Autism Awareness Month, April 17, 2024
- A Time for Celebration and Reconciliation, March 20, 2024
- Lessons on “Blood and Soil” Rhetoric, February 7, 2024
- In 2024, Evangelicals Face a Choice, January 12, 2024
2023
- Slides Rules, Calculators, and AI, December 6, 2023
- Will “Trials of the Century” Be Televised? November 15, 2023
- Getting in the Way of Your Own Message, October 6, 2023
- Football, Cognitive Dissonance and Politics, September 6, 2023
- As Our World Gets Louder, So Do Our Politics, August 2, 2023
- Don’t Touch That (AM) Dial, July 5, 2023
- The Press and the “Parasocial President,” May 31, 2023
- Trump’s Indictment and Republican Groupthink, May 3, 2023
- Thoughts from the Obituaries, March 29, 2023
- 50 Years After Roe, Part 2, March 1, 2023
- 50 Years After Roe, What Now?, January 25, 2023
2022
- Peace, Goodwill, and a Chance to Rebrand, December 28, 2022
- A Different Look at the Library Debate, November 30, 2022
- How Do You “Know” What You Know? November 2,2022
- Comparing Watergate and Trumpgate, October 5, 2022
- Listening is a Skill That We All Must Learn, September 7, 2022
- Trees, Air and the Debate Over Big Tech, August 10, 2022
- Analyzing the January 6th Hearings, July 13, 2022
- An Open Letter to Southern Baptists, June 15, 2022
- A House Cognitively Divided, May 18, 2022
- Professors are Not Stereotypes, April 20, 2022
- A Question of Identity, March 23, 2022
- Negotiation, Not Violence, February 23, 2022
- The Wisdom of a 10-Year-Old, January 26, 2022
2021
- The Warning of January 6, December 29, 2021
- ’Tis the Season for Interfaith Dialogue, December 1, 2021
- Making Sense of Neurodiversity, November 3, 2021
- A Plea for Civic Discourse, October 6, 2021
- An Open Letter to White Evangelicals, September 8, 2021
- What is Critical Race Theory? August 11, 2021
- Our Symbols and Their Meanings, July 14, 2021
- Leadership Styles and the Presidency, June 16, 2021
- The Value in a Single Word, April 28, 2021
- What is Good Communication? March 31, 2021