This course is an introduction to effective public speaking as well as effective communication in small groups. All students will develop, organize, and deliver several types of speeches; study in ...

Free speech under threat”: isn’t that, in Western democracies anyway, an anachronism, an antique item from the fusty cabinet of disused historical curiosities? 1 I mean, haven’t we waged, and won, the ...

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. – Dionysius of Halicarnassus Students of persuasive speech learn a skill, a craft, and an art. Contents come and go; speaking effectively is an ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Appearances do not always deceive. We are once again laboring in those fecund if weed-strewn fields where ...