Donovan Conley (Communication Studies) published an article, "Deliverance," in the international journal Communication and the Public. The essay is part of a special issue, "Ad/Dressing Civic Wounds," which began as a conference (March 2019) hosted by the department of communication studies in the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs. "Deliverance" examines the role of rhetoric in both creating and resolving some of our most intractable social dilemmas; it draws on the historical case of antebellum Cincinnati, where the mutual "contagions" of cholera and slavery became entangled in ways that parallel our pandemic moment. "Deliverance" is a story about the inherently "toxic" nature of liberal democracy.