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Settlements Are Not the Cause of the Conflict, But No One Can Ignore the Threat They Pose to Peace

Jan 04, 2017

Today, I want to share candid thoughts about an issue which for decades has animated the foreign policy dialogue here and around the world—the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Throughout his Administration, President …

For Speechwriters, the Struggle Is Real (and It Always Was)

Jun 13, 2023

Digging through some old files, I came across an issue of a long-defunct publication I once edited for Ragan Communications, called Speechwriter’s Newsletter. I wrote the cover piece in the August …

Rhetoric, for Ill

Jul 15, 2025

A review of The Language of Evil, by Guy Doza. (Canbury, 2025) We hear the call from time to time: If only the masses knew the tricks of speechwriters and …

Time for some candid discussion

Dec 31, 2012

“The Republican Party does not need to change our principles,” Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal tells the Republication National Committee, “but we might need to change just about everything else we do

A speechwriter’s reflection on “3D Public Servants: The Courage to Be Human”

Apr 29, 2020

I quit my job and moved across the country for this speech. It started out with a question I saw written on a white board during my final interview at …

“Great Talks Most People Have Never Heard”

Sep 26, 2018

“Great Talks Most People Have Never Heard” is a great web page I’d never heard of. Some of the speeches here, you have heard … but some very cool obscure stuff here, …

TED: productive, or “placebo”?

Jan 08, 2014

Inevitably, a guy gave a TED Talk on TED Talks. And found them wanting. At TEDx San Diego last month, visual arts professor Benjamin Bratton derides TED Talks as simplistic, …

Your CEO will never and should never deliver a great TED-style talk

Mar 06, 2013

CEOs don’t want to look too polished, because they think they’ll be branded as shallow. A speechwriter friend of mine at a Fortune 100 company complained that CEOs all recognize …

Got hope?

Jan 26, 2010

James Fallows writes about “How America Can Rise Again,” and speechwriter Cindy Starks mines the piece for useful material for speeches.

WATCH: Weirdos go to Washington

Mar 10, 2011

What was on the strange minds of the odd folks who gathered for the Speechwriters and Executive Communicators Conference, Mar. 7-9?

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Settlements Are Not the Cause of the Conflict, But No One Can Ignore the Threat They Pose to Peace

For Speechwriters, the Struggle Is Real (and It Always Was)

Rhetoric, for Ill

Time for some candid discussion

A speechwriter’s reflection on “3D Public Servants: The Courage to Be Human”

“Great Talks Most People Have Never Heard”

TED: productive, or “placebo”?

Your CEO will never and should never deliver a great TED-style talk

Got hope?

WATCH: Weirdos go to Washington

The speechwriter’s most essential emotional skill

Don’t Dismiss President Trump’s Attacks on the Media as Mere Stupidity

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