In the wake of the attacks in Paris, there have been many conservative complaints about the Western response. We are not angry enough. W...

Most humans aren't so querulous as I, but at some time everyone is likely to find himself at odds with the mind of a fellow homo sapien...

Welcome to Part Eight of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Please feel free to look at the previou...

Thank You For Arguing. by Jay Heinrichs. Ch. 26 I don't know quite what to say about a chapter which begins with a leading quote t...

Welcome to Part Six of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Please feel free to look at the previous en...

Welcome to Part Five of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Please feel free to take a peek at the pr...

In discharge of my pedagogical duties I've been this week teaching a selection of Cicero's Catilinarian Orations. Given our Presi...

Welcome to Part IV of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Feel free to take a peek at the previous e...

I don't care to read about politics before breakfast, let alone before my tea and shower, but today I stepped out onto the ice and fi...

Welcome to Part III of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Feel free to take a peek at the previous ...

In Part I of our series on presidential rhetoric we look at President Obama's Inaugural Address . Today we will look at John Adams'...