As a history teacher, I have taught the Holocaust many times, but it is literature that deepens and convinces in a way that textbooks don't.
Governments may balk at this – unless more headlines of "Europe's shame" convinces them that managed immigration is the lesser of two evils.
Missouri lore has it that in 1899, the state's congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver averred in a speech, "Frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me.
This, I imagined, is the side that actually convinces many individual Iowans to support a particular candidate.When I arrived at the Obama party in West Branch, a town near Iowa City, the group had just finished watching an Obama campaign DVD, and Ms Oleson was encouraging the attendees around her, who were finishing meals of homemade sandwiches and locally brewed beer, to read Mr Obama's books.
When attacked by critics, the faithful tend to circle the wagons, only to capitulate as soon as some scientific school of thought convinces them that disaster is imminent.
Only when the government convinces them that it has set the economy on a course of long-term growth will it be able to lure their dollars back home without having to bribe them.
When he convinces himself that a particular course of action is "the right thing to do", as he has about Iraq, he is firm of purpose and untroubled by doubt.
It is ideology, however, that convinces young Muslim men in northern England to define themselves as Muslim rather than British, and that drives Muslims to blow themselves up in the name of God.The backlash, particularly from former supporters, is hurting the global jihadists.
The "communist menace" line convinces nobody outside the country except, perhaps, for Cuban exiles living in the United States.
Or it could help: Mr Calderón could be on to a winning formula if he convinces voters that his political savvy is the ideal complement to the technocratic competence with which he is already credited.Anyone but MadrazoMr Calderón may have to fight other potential challengers, besides Mr Creel, for the PAN's nomination.
To quote a scornful European official, the Slovenes may be chairing EU meetings next year, but it is hardly going to be their president who "convinces Putin" to change his mind about Kosovo.Then comes the good.
