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How to Watch National Political Debates, such as the U.S. Presidential Debates
Here’s a video I made as a first attempt at teaching the rubric I’ve designed for evaluating and making Presidential (or national party leader) debates tolerable and perhaps…
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The Presidential Debates in the Context of How Bad We Are at having Debates at Any Kind
Monday night I gave a talk to Cornell Law School’s American Constitution Society about the history and development of Presidential Debates. I thought I had shared this already,…
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The Best Structural Change Would be to Stop Debating
The Commission on Presidential Debates released a statement about yesterday’s Presidential debate, seemingly unaware that they are the reason the debate was so poor. Here’s the text: The…
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Is It Time To Abandon The Presidential Debates?
After last night’s performance, many of us are wondering about the state of our politics and our leaders. We are worried about the state of political discourse in…
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Three Movements in the Teaching of Uncertainty Rhetoric
I’ve been talking a lot about writing process with a friend, from the start of composition and generation of ideas to the way that a thesis gets mapped…
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An Idea for Using Everyday Photos in Teaching Speech
It’s always usually at the 1/3 of the semester mark that I start to think about the class I’d rather be teaching, rather than the one that I…
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