
Too little do we today possess sufficient learning and practice in the art of rhetoric. Habituated as we are, instead, to speech constituted primarily of unthinking repetition of oft-stated phrases, true eloquence in any style has become unfamiliar. Retrieving the art of rhetoric—the ability to persuade—requires not only a re-discovery and re-habituation to the tools […]

A Philosophical Happy Hour on the nature and purpose of tragedy in both poetic and real experience. Twenty-three years ago, on nearly this day, many of us bore witness to an undoubtedly tragic event—a relative few with our own eyes, most through the television. I do not need to elaborate: only to say that I […]