The Guild Review

Eight years ago at the Democratic National Convention, then-Illinois state senator Barack Obama gave the keynote address.  I recently retur...

Continued from Part I Using Alan Dershowitz' concept of a torture warrant to overcome the "ticking time bomb" argument raises ...

Arguments may be considered in two ways: philosophically and rhetorically. That is to say, they may be analyzed either with regard to their...

Last night a friend passed along a link to this blog . In spite of the wall-to-wall news coverage of the earthquake in Haiti and the subseq...

Much has been written about the way that reading is quickly changing in the internet age. Consider, for example, a fairly standard internet...

There are many current events in the Church and State that merit our consideration and discussion: the Pope's meeting with the Presiden...

Continued from Part I Machiavelli’s ability to take “control of the language of the discussion” and change “the terms in which people think,...

Machiavelli has given his name to a certain style of cut-throat politics characterized by intrigue, backstabbing and the unbridled pursuit o...

This just in from guest contributor Zach Czaia: Aaron offered me the opportunity to post months ago. I’ve been enjoying the fruits of others...

Continued from Part I . Aristotle, in his Rhetoric , contends that “since the objective of rhetoric is judgment… we must have regard not onl...