If you’ve ever taken a crash course in public speaking, you might know about the three rhetorical appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos. While ethos relies on your audience perceiving you as trustworthy ...

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 ...

Certainly the new U.S. president has a lot on his mind and it would be unfair to expect his every phrase to be perfectly logical. Still, Barack Obama, perhaps because of the ease with which he ...