Join Dr. David Isaksen and his guests from academia, communications consulting, and politics in discussions about what it means to lead people by persuasion rather than by force. Dr. Isaksen is an Associate Professor of Communication at University of South-Eastern Norway and can be contacted over email at david.e.isaksen@usn.no

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Russian Opposition Rhetoric Part 3

Discussion with a Russian dissident about the rhetoric of the Russian opposition to Vladimir Putin from 2021-2023. We cover four sentencing speeches by Alexei Navalny,...

Russian Opposition Rhetoric Part 2

Discussion with a Russian dissident about the rhetoric of the Russian opposition to Vladimir Putin from 2021-2023. We cover four sentencing speeches by Alexei Navalny,...

Russian Opposition Rhetoric Part 1

Discussion with a Russian dissident about the rhetoric of the Russian opposition to Vladimir Putin from 2021-2023. We cover four sentencing speeches by Alexei Navalny,...

Isocrates' Warning of the Curse of Empire

Over 300 years BCE, Isocrates warned Athenians about the curse of empire in his oration "On the Peace." The central claim was that ruling over an empire was as devasta...

Perelman's Arguments Based on the Structure of Reality

Perelman made a category of arguments that he termed to be "based on the structure of reality." Dr. Steven B. Katz joins us to discuss each of the arguments within thi...

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