- Sep 20, 2023
Playlist Breakdown: Bill's Kweli Mix (c. 2004-05)
Talib Kweli is my favorite rapper -- I think he is unlikely to be replaced, no matter how many young talented people come along. My...
- Jul 22, 2023
From the Archive: A Sonnet (1997)
Billy Schraufnagel English Lit, p.10 November 11, 1997 If you want to accomplish your delight, Find your own way to grope along in dark...
- Jun 26, 2023
On Strategic Communication
Kenneth Burke writes that a strategy is a response to a situation. And a situation is a shorthand-term for a structure of motives. By...
- Jun 1, 2023
From the Archive: Contemplative Communication
Love as the Redemption of Suffering You stand in a clearing whose cost you know in tendon and bone. - Wendell Berry, “Clearing” In the...
- Apr 30, 2022
Top Ten Books on Rhetoric
An intrepid student recently asked me, "I pose a request: If you can reduce rhetorics most relevant books to a list of ~5-10, I'd be...
- Apr 4, 2021
The Permanence of Wilbur Samuel Howell
For so many centuries, as the Roman Empire, rhetorical education prevailed for the most part in a continuum from Quintilian until the...