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If the enemies of truth employ the arts of persuasion, then lovers of truth have no choice but to employ them more effectively. In the book, you identify the key communication skills of five renowned ...

The dangers of this rhetoric are not hypothetical. We have seen assassination attempts on public officials, violent confrontations at rallies, and threats against everyday citizens who are choosing to ...

Early on in my writing courses, I ask students to define their sense of rhetoric. Responses range from “persuasion” to “manipulation,” but they tend to share a negative connotation. Little wonder: In ...

I was not surprised to read the infantile analogies, denial of empirical facts, and relativist analyses presented by the intelligentsia clique whose anachronistic, amoral, and disingenuous opinions on ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is this weekend, and I will be marching on Monday in support. One of MLK’s important lessons is “to disagree without being disagreeable.” Sadly, this lesson was ...