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Dennis Stevens, Ed.D.

Dennis Stevens, Ed.D.

Reframing the Frame: Language, Power, and the Battle for Public Meaning

Reframing the Frame: Language, Power, and the Battle for Public Meaning

Political power today hinges more on framing than facts. The right uses emotionally charged language to shape meaning, while Democrats and mainstream media often respond with neutral, technocratic rhetoric that lacks resonance. To regain influence, they must reframe, not simply rebut.

Restoring Meaning in an Age of Distrust in News as Relates to Politics

Restoring Meaning in an Age of Distrust in News as Relates to Politics

Journalism is failing not from bias alone, but from a deeper unwillingness to confront its own epistemological and cultural blind spots.

Inherently American

Inherently American

A symbolic collision looms between faith and power. This project asks: What does it mean to be inherently American and, can media evolve to hold the answer?

Harvard and the Importance of Civic Courage

Harvard and the Importance of Civic Courage

Civic courage is the resolve to uphold democratic values despite risk. Harvard's refusal to yield to political pressure defends academic freedom. It sets a national precedent, showing that moral leadership in crisis protects the integrity of education as well as the future of democracy.

Forgotten Threads: Public Discourse in a Fraying Republic

Forgotten Threads: Public Discourse in a Fraying Republic

As America shouts across its divides, the deeper crisis goes unnamed: a loss of moral imagination, shared myth, and the willingness to listen. Beneath the noise lies a silent fracture, one that only truth, spoken with care, can mend.

What Liberty Forgets: Reclaiming the Narrative

What Liberty Forgets: Reclaiming the Narrative

Liberty isn’t a possession of one political party in America-- it’s a fragile thread stretched between opposing truths.

The Consequences of Moral Sleepwalking

The Consequences of Moral Sleepwalking

At the heart of the Republic’s Threshold of Covenant lies a moral fracture: liberty for me versus liberty for all. This is more than a crisis; it is a reckoning with memory, fear, and the deliberate choice to return to a story wide enough for us all-- or not.

When the Guardians Gamble: Power, Trust, and the Shadow of Freedom

When the Guardians Gamble: Power, Trust, and the Shadow of Freedom

The torch dims. The shadow grows. What story will we now believe?

A Reflection from the Soul of the Republic

A Reflection from the Soul of the Republic

Smoke rises from old altars. A gate swings open in the dust. The storm is not new, but the silence before it feels different now. Each step taken this week was a wager: on power, on memory, on what we are willing to lose to feel in control.

From Murrow to the Moment: Reviving the Ethos of Public Discourse in the Shadow of Spectacle

From Murrow to the Moment: Reviving the Ethos of Public Discourse in the Shadow of Spectacle

If liberals and conservatives literally perceive moral reality differently, assigning blame, risk, and responsibility through distinct psychological frames, then objectivity becomes less a standard of truth and more a veil of detachment.

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