In a series of posts on persuasive language, commonly referred to as rhetoric, I mentioned some rhetorical devices that can make a...

Try as I might to find a five-dumbbell example of recent political rhetoric, they seem to be in short supply these days. Liz Cheney gave...

At the end of the last post in this series on rhetoric, I indicated that things often considered positive qualities, such as fairness and...

In the last piece in this series on rhetoric, I talked about how to defend yourself against someone trying to get the best of you in a...

[Note: Some of today’s posting comes from a chapter on rhetoric in Critical Voter.] In the last posting in this series on rhetoric, I...

I hope you enjoyed the recent series about the role critical-thinking can play in ethical decision making through an analysis of cases in...

[Note: Some of today’s posting comes from a chapter on rhetoric in Critical Voter.] Before launching into a discussion of persuasive...