In Provocations of Virtue John Duffy explores the indispensable role of writing teachers and scholars in counteracting the polarized venomous posttruth character of contemporary public argument. Teachers of writing are uniquely positioned to address the crisis of public discourse because their work in the writing classroom is tied to the teaching of ethical language practices that are known to moral philosophers as the virtuestruthfulness accountability openmindedness generosity and intellectual courage. ampampnbsp Drawing upon Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics and the branch of philosophical inquiry known as virtue ethics Provocations of Virtue calls for the reclamation of rhetorical virtues as a core function in the writing classroom.