Dr. Jim Vickrey, Author at Alabama Political Reporter

Dr. Jim Vickrey

Dr. Vickrey, Ph.D., J.D., writes from Montgomery at [email protected]. He is a graduate of Auburn (A.B., M.A.), FSU (Ph.D. in rhetoric and public address) and Faulkner University (J.D.). He has taught and/or worked at AU, UA, FSU, USF, UM (where he was the 11th president) and Troy University, whence he retired as a professor emeritus after 23 years. He specialized in presidential rhetoric, public speaking, argumentation and debate, legal rhetoric and other communication subjects, including ethics in public rhetoric. He has been honored for his commitment to the First Amendment and resistance to the censorship of public bodies. Four of six books have been published so far, along with dozens of scholarly and popular articles.

Opinion

Opinion | The problem with lying

Lying affects the liar as well as the lied-to, desensitizing both to the truth, or even what the facts are.

Dr. Jim VickreyJuly 27, 2026

Opinion

Opinion | An Alabama awakening from Jim Crow to civil rights

Jim Vickrey traces a lifelong journey from Jim Crow indoctrination to civil rights advocacy across Alabama’s historic battlegrounds.

Dr. Jim VickreyJuly 13, 2026

Elections

Opinion | A “blue wave” of justice is building off our political shore

When it crashes ashore this fall, its eddies may even establish a beachhead of renewed justice here in our beloved, but still one-party Alabama.

Dr. Jim VickreyJuly 7, 2026

Courts

Opinion | “Republican judges” are as Republican judges do

If a justice writes and rules as we would expect “a Republican” to do, it hardly matters whether s/he calls her/himself one.

Dr. Jim VickreyJune 2, 2026

Opinion

Opinion | Three things in Alabama of which I’ve been proud for decades

Three state firsts have long topped my lists of things in Alabama for which I'm most proud.

Dr. Jim VickreyOctober 8, 2024