Earlier this month, we pulled together the annual commencement speech issue of Vital Speeches of the Day. Though I don’t love commencement speeches as much as the best commencement speech writer of …
A lot of people around the world are worried about competition from China. And I suppose a lot of us ought to be. Not speechwriters, boy. Have you seen the …
“The formal speech is dying,” was one typical anguished speechwriter’s response to the Speechwriters’ Census 2021, released last month by the Professional Speechwriters Association. “The verbatim speech is on its way …
Dear Corporate Speechwriter: I find myself thinking of coach Herb Brooks’ pregame speech to the 1980 U.S. hockey team, as portrayed in the movie, Miracle, by Kurt Russell. “This,” Brooks shouts …
There’s an unwritten tradition that the previous president doesn’t criticize the sitting president. There’s an unnecessary tradition that the previous president’s speechwriters don’t critique the sitting president’s scribes. Unnecessary, because it always …
A Tuesday ForbesWomen profile opened with some classic straw-man rhetoric, whether or not its subject knows that rhetorical term by its name. “There are a lot of speechwriters out there, and they will …
As some of us allow ourselves to imagine a time in the comprehensible future when we don’t feel like we’re hurtling through history backward, forward and sideways in a tumbling …
Four years ago this week, I stood in a security line for an hour waiting to get out of the Quicken Loans Arena, after watching Donald Trump’s speech in acceptance …
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