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Rhetoric is supposed to inspire. Imagine Cicero exhorting the Roman people, Churchill vowing to \\u201cfight on the beaches.\\u201d Yet, when politicians speak today, it\\u2019s almost always boring or obnoxious. Why?\\xa0
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\\u2019t, and the political speech styles of Trudeau (boring), Trump (obnoxious), and X Gonz\\xe1lez (pretty great, actually).\\xa0
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