Persuasion plays a critical role in personal relationships. Whenever two or more people get together, they will inevitably try to persuade one another to engage in a preferred activity or go to a ...

September 18, 2011 was without question the worst day of Chris Del Conte’s professional career. October 6, 2011 was his absolute best. The circumstances that led to such polarization, as well as the ...

There is something that has been sorely missing in the United States in the last decade — soaring rhetoric. We are lacking leaders who, like Abraham Lincoln, appeal to our better angels through their ...

I have taught first-year college composition for three decades. The way my students write reflects a ubiquitous, dangerous feature of communication in our righteously judgmental culture at large: Too ...

President Donald Trump’s address to Congress took many people by surprise. What they heard and what they expected to hear were at odds. Many thought, with this appearance before Congress and the ...

Quick: name the three reasons humans communicate. If you haven’t answered yet, either you haven’t thought enough about basic human communication, or you’ve overthought it. We communicate – in verbal, ...

Nothing is harder to prove than that you can ever persuade anyone of anything. Prejudice or predisposition keeps a tenacious hold on our opinions. Yet education and a common culture (as distinct from ...

The author of "The Soulful Art of Persuasion", Jason Harris chatted with Kara about why persuasion is not about facts and argument...but about personal character. Click here for more information about ...

About 32 years ago, I attended a downtown big shot awards dinner. My networking model is a simple one. I buy the ticket, I get there 15 minutes before it is supposed to start, I work the room, and ...

A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on December 2, 2019. Translated from the French by John Cullen. Journalism is always conducted better in person than through networked technology.