He makes seven clear accusations about what is wrong with their instructional methods. Despite his intention for Against the Sophists to be written as an outline of his own pedagogical principles, ...

Modern technology bestows an abundance of blessings. The curses that it inflicts are less vivid, but they are neither hidden ...

Modern-day sophistry goes by various names: Disinformation, political spins, propaganda-setting, and now, after Donald ...

He looked upon the soul as the seat of both waking consciousness and moral character, and held the universe to be purposively mind-ordered. His criticism of the Sophists and of Athenian political and ...

As is now very obvious to Nigerians, President Obasanjo apparently has never had enough peace of mind, post office, not to be ...

As Vasiliev points out, “The court of the Despotate, in the castle of Mystra, was an educational center that attracted educated Greek scholars, sophists, and courtiers.” In his letters to Theodore, ...

Significant throughout time, announcements  have long served as a method of persuasion, an integral part of human society, ...

Having to face new, foreign, or simply different ways of thought is not an exclusively 20th Century experience: “You cannot put charcoal and ice in the same container,” once declared an 12th Century ...

Any official eulogist of the state inherits a rhetorical toolbox as old as the Sophists of Ancient Greece, but how should it be deployed in a contemporary, democratic, multicultural, and ...

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids. Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface. Wikiwand ...

I don't know what did or did not happen between Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow more than 20 years ago, and neither does Nicholas Kristof. What I do know is that Allen is a moral nihilist. This ...