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How the Scottish Enlightenment and Scotch-Irish Built America
The deepest source code of the American mind wasn’t written in England. It was written in Scots.
13 hrs ago
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The Pattern in the Wood: Jesus as the Perfect Example of Natural Law
This may seem unexpected from me, if you’ve followed me for long, but what follows will be what I consider to be the best defense of Christianity that…
Jul 20
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A Tale of Two Speeches Pt 2: The Cathedral
I’ve spent a fair amount of this series taking speeches and ideas apart—showing where the ethos is borrowed, the logos sealed, the pathos harnessed to…
Jul 15
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A Tale of Two Speeches Pt 1: The Tripod of Broken Legs
I want to do something with this series that’s harder than it looks, and more honest than what usually passes for political commentary.
Jul 13
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The Three Appeals of a Bad Idea: How Marxism Persuades
If you’ve followed the work on the three classical appeals—ethos, the appeal from credibility; logos, the appeal from reasoning; and pathos, the appeal…
Jul 8
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The Machine of Deception: When Logos, Ethos, and Pathos Are Weaponized Together
Throughout this series we’ve looked at the dark side of each appeal on its own.
Jul 6
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The Triangle: How Logos, Ethos, and Pathos Work Together
We’ve spent this series doing something a little artificial.
Jul 1
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June 2026
The Dark Side of Pathos: Fear, Outrage, and the Engineering of Feeling
Pathos is the fastest of the three appeals, and speed is exactly what makes it dangerous.
Jun 30
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Pathos: The Appeal That Moves Us Before We Decide
You have never once been argued out of a conviction you arrived at through feeling.
Jun 29
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The Dark Side of Ethos: Borrowed Trust and the Oldest Con
Every powerful idea casts a shadow, and ethos casts a long one.
Jun 25
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Ethos: The Character That Speaks Before You Do
Before you say a word, something has already spoken for you.
Jun 24
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The Dark Side of Logos: When Reason Becomes a Weapon
In our last post, we discussed the first of the three appeals, Logos.
Jun 23
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