Aristotle and later Cicero wrote about argument being composed of logos, ethos and pathos. Most people know the “logos” as logic and “pathos” as emotion (easy to remember because of words such as ...

While teaching a class on intelligence and analysis last year, I asked my graduate students why the media’s shocking picture of the drowned Syrian boy seemed to have such an incredible effect on ...

Though it may be the particular purview of philosophers and Vulcans, we all use logic to find some semblance of objective truth. Most people like to think of themselves as reasonable beings, so a ...

In preparation for a symposium about teaching writing in the post-truth era, I encountered a little book by one of the symposium participants, Bruce McComiskey. Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition is ...

Our study sifts through research reports issued by six top AShSs, which show average drops of 11.2% in share prices of target companies within three days of publication. Like them or loathe them, ...