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Lethal connections: Terrorism, ecstasy and primal fear
Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971)
Emeritus Professor of International Law
Purdue University
lberes@purdue.edu
ABSTRACT: In its escalating war against terror crimes, Israel’s ultimate challenge is intellectual, not tactical. To proceed successfully in this protracted conflict, Jerusalem’s policies...
Rhetoric could be called the House of Logic, but Ye have made it a...
The very first line of Aristotle’s Rhetoric runs thus: “ἡ ῥητορική ἐστιν ἀντίστροφος τῇ διαλεκτικῇ” (1). The quite wise ancient Greeks weened that every law-abiding democratic free citizen should be a dialectician and grasp...