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  • What’s Wrong with the Presidential Debates?

    I was asked to give a talk at the University of Chicago this afternoon to some MBA students about the Presidential debates.  The lecture was done via WebEx,…

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  • What do Rhetoricans Stand For?

    Rhetoric outlived ancient Athens, Ancient Greece as a whole. Rhetoric outlived Imperial China, Maoism, and is at the table as China develops as a global economic power. Rhetoric…

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  • The First Presidential Debate 2016: Analysis

    Here’s my full analysis which was posted on the great ElectionDebates Website, but some had to be removed. This is the full version of what I wrote:  Presidential…

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  • Presidential Debates

    The time has come as it does every few years where I must watch most everyone destroy and mock the thing I’ve spent most of my life trying…

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  • It’s Always Almost Here

    There’s a nice moment in teaching, somewhere around May when the exams are nearly graded and the summer is before you where you start to think about the…

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  • Tokyo Conference on Argumentation

    It’s hard to find a faultless conference. But the Tokyo Argumentation Conference might just be the best model of a conference that balances a critical and serious approach…

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