22 NOVEMBER 2008, page 26

Ancient & Modern

Barack Obama has risen to power on the back of an enviable oratorical ability. But it is a two-edged sword. Ancient Greeks, who had a word for it (rhetoric) and were the first......

Don’t Confuse Conversation With Dialogue Or Quips

Catherine Blyth says that conversation is an art: its essence is the acrobatic business of reading and changing minds — talking with people, not at them H ow would you feel if......