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Law Practice

Aug. 19, 2019

How We Argue

I am a teacher of argument and a student of history. As I contemplate the viciousness of contemporary rhetoric, I think back to the Founders. It would be a mistake to assume that public discourse and private conversations alike were once genteel and then degenerated.

Frank H. Wu

President Designate
Queens College

Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.

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How We Argue
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I am a teacher of argument and a student of history. As I contemplate the viciousness of contemporary rhetoric, I think back to the Founders. It would be a mistake to assume that public discourse and private conversations alike were once genteel and then degenerated. Leaders who are revered now, from revolutionaries responsible for creating the republic to the earliest politicians of the democracy, were brutal, personal, relentless and petty, but they were acquainted with one another in co...

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