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I Gave an Impromptu Lecture on Debate and it wasn’t Terrible
Not advisable, but I gave this lecture as a favor to a friend last minute. It went a lot better than I hoped it would. The question I’ve…
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Wading into the Relationship between Professor and Teacher
For some reason I have been reflecting on my career and work a lot lately, probably because I’m starting to feel strange about how the days are not…
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The Problem with My Lecture Videos
I thought I’d start out this semester by offering students a number of 10 to 12 minute videos on different topics. It did not turn out that way.…
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Explaining Pragmadialectics to Undergraduates, or Why Do I Assign Readings Like This?
Well another week, another slew of video lectures to record. I much prefer doing it this way to doing it on Zoom live or something. At least this…
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Facebook is a terrible place
I have two things that I feel I have wasted years of my life on that I regret: The first is my time in intercollegiate debate, deluded that…
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The Dissolving Federalist Papers
Still no sign of my ancient copy of The Federalist Papers but for some reason Amazon gave me a 15 dollar discount on a Kindle version of them,…
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