Rhetorical Analysis of New York Times Article

             "This is Your Brain on Politics"
             If anyone has watched any television in, say, the last five years, they obviously know the new shows about crime scene investigation, such as CSI:, CSI: Miami, and NCIS. These shows teach the viewer one simple thing: the evidence does not lie. Science is the truth, and in the article, "This is Your Brain on Politics", by Joshua Freedman, he uses science to reveal a hidden truth in all of us about our true political allegiances.
             While this essay has a political tone, it in no way leans towards one side or the other. Freedman instead writes as a moderate, looking at scientific ideology in order to explain human behavior in politics. He is a respected doctor of psychiatry and a renowned faculty member at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California. Freedman shows no lean towards a single party, but rather uses science to show how Democrats and Republicans are actually quite similar.
             In recent months, the election has caused the nation to become divided on many issues, including who should be the next leader of the free world. Freedman humorously uses a past quote of former President Bill Clinton to illustrate the division of ideologies within the United States. Clinton was stated as saying that he was probably the only person in America to both like the incumbent Republican President and his Democratic challenger. Freedman uses this statement as a means to demonstrate his own viewpoint that no matter your political affiliation, neurologically, you are similar to your opposition. It is an analogy to his theory, as his scientific research has shown that Democrats and Republicans are more alike than they would sometimes like to think.
             Freedman finds a common ground with his audience by writing about such a controversial topic. Even the most radically partisan reader is intrigued by the article because of the tone that Freedman uses. He i
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