Robert P. Newman

Communication pathologies of intelligence systems

This essay describes communication pathologies common to communication systems, mission involvement, excessive secrecy, and an overload of information. How each of these factors interferes with effective intelligence is analyzed.

John A. Stormer and the Hofstadter hypothesis

Does political rhetoric hold the key to an understanding of political pathology? Blending historical scholarship and behavioral research, this study tested empirically hypotheses derived from Richard Hofstadters model of the “paranoid style” in American politics. The data were drawn from John A. Stormers None Dare Call It Treason.

Analysis and issues‐a study of doctrine

This article contends that the rhetorical theory of commonplaces, stasis, or stock issues is misleading and useless, and argues that rhetoric will be on sounder grounds by giving up the attempt to formulate a pre‐existing structure into which the issues of deliberative propositions can be sorted.

The weekly fiction magazines

Debaters and contest speakers in the academic world have come to depend upon the weekly newsmagazines for much of their evidentiary support. This article argues that at least two of these are unworthy sources.