Robin Reames is a professor of rhetoric who teaches in the English department at the University of Illinois Chicago. Below, Robin shares five key insights from her new book, The Ancient Art of ...

Ever tried convincing someone to pick your favorite movie for movie night? Or maybe defended pineapple on a pizza? Whether you knew it or not, you were tapping into one of the oldest human traditions: ...

I waited each Sunday after I’d preached for my daughter, Nicola, then a teenager, to say those words. Sometimes she did, sometimes she didn’t. When she did, I felt heaven’s approval, or at least its ...