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 ...

No one has yet blamed Jared Loughner’s teachers for his violent mind-set and actions in Arizona, but teachers and parents have long been aware that inflammatory rhetoric can spark agitation in ...

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 ...

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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 dangers of this rhetoric are not hypothetical. We have seen assassination attempts on public officials, violent confrontations at rallies, and threats against everyday citizens who are choosing to ...

This year sees a deluge of anniversaries of major American speeches. In August, the world marked the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech to the 1963 March on Washington.

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 ...