It is crucial to distinguish between the meaning of evil and the rhetoric of evil. The question of the meaning of evil is an interpretive question: What do we mean when we use the word “evil”? The ...

Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Aggie Agora, Texas A&M University Yet a recent poll has found that 37% of likely voters across the political spectrum agree with a “temporary ...

Twice a month, community columnists weigh in on matters of faith and values. The column appears Saturdays and features retired Methodist minister Paul Graves, of Sandpoint, and Steve Massey, a pastor ...

In his new book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Jason Stanley examines the ways in which fascist rhetoric helps authoritarians gain power. He looks to the language of demagogues and ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Just the facts, Ma'am. Your op-ed columnist Tamara Hall has a case of mistaken identity. She ends ...

University of Waterloo provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Waterloo provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In the wake of Donald Trump’s ...

Not all students hate Stanford’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR), but they generally agree that other students hate it. There’s a rhetoric around PWR: a word-of-mouth opinion spread around ...