• 39 - The Glorious History and Ugly Present of Rhetoric feat. Rob Goodman

  • Jan 24 2022
  • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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39 - The Glorious History and Ugly Present of Rhetoric feat. Rob Goodman

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  • Rhetoric is supposed to inspire. Imagine Cicero exhorting the Roman people, Churchill vowing to “fight on the beaches.” Yet, when politicians speak today, it’s almost always boring or obnoxious. Why?

    Prof. Rob Goodman, author of Words on Fire: Eloquence and its Conditions comes by today to talk about the history of rhetoric, what Cicero knew that we don’t, and the political speech styles of Trudeau (boring), Trump (obnoxious), and X González (pretty great, actually).

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