Arm Yourself No. 1: CUI BONO — who benefits? Kushner negotiates a Gaza peace deal while his firm profits from $465M in arms suppliers. Follow the money.

Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights
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The Franks couldn't out-Rome the Byzantines, so they reached past Rome to the Bible: Charlemagne as a new David, the Franks as a new Israel — God's chosen people. Rhetoric didn't just decorate the empire. It elected it. #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric #rhetoricafterrome

In 476, Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last western emperor. Rhetoric didn't die — it got a new employer. Charlemagne's Franks used schools, books, and laws to forge a Christian empire. Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights. #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric #rhetoricafterrome

In Rome, speech could get you killed. So rhetoric learned to behave. Cicero turned to dialogue on ethos; Quintilian made it a curriculum: the good man speaking well. Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights. From my dissertation (Georgia State, 2017). #rhetoric #historyofrhetoric #rhetoricafterrome

Rhetoric After Rome: ideas each day from rhetoric's history. I'm a PhD in the field, tracing persuasion from Athens to Anglo-Saxon England — and what it teaches us about arguing for ourselves and seeing through others' arguments. Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights. #rhetoricafterrome

In Athens, the courtroom ran on fear and confidence — Aristotle's dread of imminent harm, and the elite's freedom from it. Rhetoric was how a society held together.

From my dissertation (Georgia State, 2017). Historical Rhetoric for Modern Fights.

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