According to communication-studies department leaders at the University of California at Los Angeles, the story of why Keith A. Fink lost his job isn’t an especially interesting one: He was a ...

The following essay is excerpted from Michael Knowles' new book, Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, published June 22 by Regnery. Contrary to the claims of many conservatives, political ...

A Princeton University professor has canceled a course on cultural freedoms after his use of a racial slur last week during a class discussion led students to walk out and prompted a campus debate ...

Harvard achieved early dominance in the teaching of public speaking in the United States. The first speech professorship in this country, the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, was ...

"Harvard has not deserted rhetoric," associate professor Frederick C. Packard told the General Speech Association of Eastern States last weekend. "But rhetoric," he continued, "has deserted speech.