With every new advance in prenatal genetic screening, the ability to prevent suffering has also sparked difficult questions. These fears arise, in part, because just 100 years ago, that’s exactly what the eugenics movement tried to do.
In 1999, Stephen E. Lucas surveyed his peers to compile a list of the top 100 American speeches of the twentieth century. Here he discusses good speechmaking, and the speaking skills of William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow.
