In the rush to explain Saturday’s tragic shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, many in the media have rushed to link the bloodbath to what they see as the recent upsurge in harsh political ...

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 ...

For a while now a number of ‘issues’ are in the limelight in Pakistan. Every single politician talks about them, every analyst discusses them and the whole population chimes about them literally every ...

When I was in high school, teachers took a risk by inviting a local neo-Nazi group to speak. While controversial, it was a powerful lesson. Having watched films on the Holocaust, I was left feeling ...

Since its inception in Ancient Greece, the discipline of rhetoric — not to be confused with what’s often dismissed as “mere rhetoric” or the knack of sophistry, which is making arguments in bad faith ...

Longtime scholar Dan Nimmo, whose research has contributed to the disciplines of political science, journalism, and communication, was one of the first to define and analyze the various audiences to ...

The violence at an Arizona shopping center in Tucson Saturday is a reminder to Americans that public figures with easy access to large microphones have a responsibility to cool the rhetoric.

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 ...