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 ...

Since its inception in Ancient Greece, the academic discipline of rhetoric—not to be confused with the knack of sophistry or what often is labeled “mere rhetoric”—has focused on the art of symbolic ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...