{"id":4246,"date":"2016-01-04T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/04\/furmans-malici-calls-for-reason-over-rhetoric-and-fear-mongering\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:50:05","slug":"furmans-malici-calls-for-reason-over-rhetoric-and-fear-mongering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-malici-calls-for-reason-over-rhetoric-and-fear-mongering\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman\u2019s Malici calls for reason over rhetoric and fear-mongering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/akan-malici-cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19539 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/akan-malici-cropped-medium.jpg\" alt=\"akan malici cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/259;\" \/><\/a>political science professor Dr. Akan Malici offers another opinion piece in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2016\/01\/02\/respond-terrorism-reason-not-fear\/77836466\/\">Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u2014his third in as many months. In it, he notes the consequences of succumbing to the barrage of media hype and political fear-mongering, saying, \u201cPervasive fear is dangerous because it inhibits reason, the very faculty we need in times of crisis.\u201d But he says bringing the voice of reason to the fore is difficult because \u201cthe public space is largely owned by actors who have a vested interest in exaggerating threats \u2013 foremost politicians and the media.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University political science professor Dr. Akan Malici offers another opinion piece in the Greenville News\u2014his third in as many months. In it, he notes the consequences of succumbing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}