Rhetoric in the life of the Church tends to get a pretty bad wrap. Associated with manipulation, cunning, deceit, and emotionalism, we often find it easier to quote Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 ...

When conducting rhetorical analysis, you’re attempting to answer "How and why a composer/speaker attempts to appeal to an audience in order to convey a purpose?" By explaining those ideas through your ...

Two days after an armed man tried to enter the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt cited rhetoric from Democrats that she said is “inspiring ...

“Follow the money,” the FBI source Deep Throat told the reporters unraveling the Watergate burglary in the film All the President’s Men. A corollary for our time might be “name the evil.” If you want ...

Matthew Sharpe teaches philosophy at Deakin, and receives ARC moneys to study the history of philosophy and its practices. Thanks here go to Mr NS and Dr WA. A concerned friend recently told me of an ...

Donald Trump’s December 7 Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration has attracted worldwide disdain. Nearly 500,000 Britons have signed a petition asking their government to prevent Trump from ...

This post has been updated in light of Donald Trump's comments Monday on banning all Muslim immigrants. Political rhetoric is a term that has come up a lot this year — certainly a little more often in ...

St. Augustine, who was trained in the heights of the Latin rhetorical tradition, found Scripture rhetorically primitive when he was looking at it from the outside, before his conversion. But he became ...