CLT Journal

As the fifteenth century proceeded, a new wind was blowing out of the east, for both evil and good at once.

Rhetorica: The Topoi, II. Similarity

Analogy is one of the oldest, most prevalent devices of rhetoric; as it is written, “But without a parable spake he not unto them.”

The choice to homeschool does not just mean having school at home; it means creating a new lifestyle for the sake of your children’s education.

At the same time as a high tide of mysticism in England, the synthesis of Christendom was collapsing, thanks in part to its founder, the papacy.

In this topos, we are dealing not just with “how to use a dictionary” but with “how to link two minds in the realm of being.”

The Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses are infamously complex, so here’s an inattentive summary.

As rhetoric is a complement to dialectic, so the topos is a complement to the syllogism. (Thrilled yet?)

Though the topic is complex, the lesson is simple: To understand statistics, we should first learn how to.

The sophisticated, prosperous world of the High Middle Ages was brought down almost singlehandedly by one of the smallest things in existence.

Not all science is equally rigorously conducted; if you are testing a hypothesis, you are doing science—it might just not be very thorough.