Watch Your Words: A Manifesto for the Arts of Speech

Never before has humanity done so much talking. But is anyone listening? For that matter, are people even speaking to each other?

We need to acknowledge that speech, as we know it, has never been so debased. We live in a world full of empty, degraded, and potentially violent speech: a daily reality that confronts us in the workplace, in the media, on the streets, on the internet, and in our political lives. Verbal clashes are commonplace, while proper dialogue is rare.

Gérald Garutti pushes...