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The Authoritarian Mirage

Oh no! The Atlantic has revealed there are undiscovered authoritarians on the left! Hide the children! I read bad studies all the time, but this one is particularly bad. Witness: Costello and his colleagues started fresh. They developed what eventually became a list of 39 statements capturing sentiments such as “We need to replace the […]

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The Dark Mark and the Fantasy Theme

In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, all of the hardcore inner-circle followers of Voldemort, the so-called Death Eaters, have a permanent brand on their left forearm, the Dark Mark. It serves as a perverse badge of honor and a way for Voldy to summon them to him quickly, or vice versa. All the DE are […]

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New Publication

Putting a brief note here for a new pub in print: Duncan, Mike. “The Danger of Using Style to Determine Authorship: The Case of Luke and Acts,” In Style and the Future of Composition Studies, Eds. Paul Butler, Star Vanguri, and Brian Ray. Utah State UP, 2020. This chapter has a long backstory. I wrote […]