I meant to post this back in August. Sorry. In our the Mormon Matters podcast series, Russell Arben Fox, Randall Paul, and I sat down to talk with host Dan Wotherspoon about Hugh Nibley’s social criticism:
http://mormonmatters.org/2013/08/29/188-189-hugh-nibley-part-3-prophet-of-zion/
Boyd Petersen 
Thanks for this. It’s great. Inspired me to go read his “Victoriosa Loquacitas.” I think he is too narrow in his definition: rhetoric = sophistry. For my money, sophistry is weenie rhetoric; whereas, Nibley is, himself, a badass rhetorician and yet fails to recognize the reality of the badass rhetor who eats Sophists for breakfast.
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