Monthly Archives: November 2016

Is This Our Best Rhetoric?

Posted on November 18, 2016 by mbrowning

What value does rhetoric have in the United States of 2016? When the Oxford dictionaries name “post-truth” as the word of the year, rhetoric’s place in the world should be obvious. It was by a very skillful use of the … Continue reading →

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A Classic Fallacy from the Pages of a Classic Magazine

Posted on November 7, 2016 by mbrowning

If you’re not interested in the textual history of the Christian Bible, then the details of this story about the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” papyrus will probably not thrill you. Let me give you the thumbnail version. A Harvard … Continue reading →

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