Recent Exercises

  • Debate's Missing Manual

    I’ve been doing some side-research this morning, which means I’m not doing what I’m supposed to be doing and instead poking around in an early stage of a…

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  • The Classroom as a Public Space

    A blurry photo of one of the classrooms I teach in I engage in a fantasy that the classroom functions as a public space. That is, the classroom…

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  • The End of the University

    Not in a teleological sense, but otherwise. This guy thinks that the University will be irrelevant in a few years. The only question I have after reading this…

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  • Eliminate Public Speaking

    I used to range from laughter to anger when I heard people talk about the need to eliminate public speaking as a requirement from university curriculum. However, there…

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  • Planning the Talk

    Here’s my idea so far: Central Question: What is the proper relationship between debate and rhetoric?Petitio: What relationship, if any, do they have now? Lead in with some…

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  • The dreaded “Talk”

    A week from tomorrow I’m giving a talk at Queens College on rhetoric and philosophy, and I’m not sure exactly how to do it. I think the “talk”…

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