Remember the stirring words from Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last year? Liar. Hardly anybody remembers SOTUs (as the press calls them), including, perhaps, the presidents ...

Oration is undoubtedlya powerful art.An orator’s objective is to vary perceptions about a political or social problem by using arguments, lines of reasoning, anecdotes, and illustrations to ...

Regarding Fouad Ajami's "No Surrender" (op-ed, March 19): It was in his second speech to the Athenians, not in the funeral oration, that Pericles used the words, "I am the same as I was, and do ...