Recent Exercises

  • Future Proof

    I started this blog to future proof my old, expensive blog at Squarespace. The possibility remains high that I will be leaving New York, so I gotta get…

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  • Public Speaking Will Not Bend. Why?

    Why should an online course strive to match up with the classroom experience? The classroom experience is an accident of historical, economic, and technological forces that made it…

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  • Why Argument is Good for Us

    Arguing is hard. Arguing is frustrating. And arguing is essential for our political health. If you haven’t been running, or to the gym in a while, during that…

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  • Summer Potential

    The summer always starts with this overwhelming, absolute feeling of potential, like there’s just tons of open space ready for development. And so much less of it is…

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  • Being Wary of Debate Champions, Championships, and Debaters

    Just read the Financial Times piece “What the Rise of the Debating Champion Tells us about the World” Sadly, it’s super locked down and paywalled, and not even…

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  • Two Rhetorical Definitions of Protest

    I know that I make a lot of promises on this blog for multi-part series of things, and I’ve left two of them incomplete, but today I have…

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