Recent Exercises

  • Media Fun

    One of the things about coaching and teaching rhetoric and debate that I always looked forward to was the chance to make interventions into major rhetorical and argumentative…

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  • The Natural Unnatural

    On the subway this weekend, it was pretty crowded, a man gets on who is clearly homeless and very smelly. People began to freak out and announce how…

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  • Debating History in the Future

    Well I expect to be pretty quiet this week – I have debate practices every night and possibly a gathering on Saturday for the new debaters since we…

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  • Rhetoric: Lost in Translation

    Two websites of note for those who like to use foreign languages without really understanding how they work: Engrish, A hilarious website chronicling poor English translations from Asian…

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  • People Hate On Me For This

    But Karl Rove is a brilliant strategist and thinker. I admire what he was able to do in 2000 and 2004. Today in the Wall Street Journal he…

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  • Pedagogy: Digital and Traditional

    I read two interesting news pieces this morning that deal with issues of pedagogy and argument in distinctly different ways. The first is a news item from Australia,…

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