Recent Exercises

  • CEDA Nationals, technology, and future obligation

    Debate Stream on YouTube is streaming CEDA Nationals live. CEDA, anachronistically stands for Cross Examination Debate Association, but the debate style is that of American policy debate with…

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  • Lecturing at the Budapest Open

    This is a recording of my lecture on teaching debate and argument. I was asked to give it at the start of the 2016 Budapest Open, and was…

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  • Uncertainty

    Re-read this essay of mine recently after someone remarked how good it was. I wasn’t sure, but after re-reading it I think they are right – it might…

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  • Debate Tournament Fantasy, Part 1

    “Competitors and Adjudicators are encouraged to look up information before, during, and after the debate via the free WiFi and the academic databases provided by our sponsor, ProQuest.”…

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  • Policy Debate: Exclusive or Exclusionary?

    “How do you get students interested in policy debate?”     I run into an alum of my debate program on the street outside the campus, around 11 o’clock…

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  • Buyer’s Remorse

    Screening the 2005 documentary Resolved today in preparation for showing it, as I always do, in my debate course. It’s a great text for discussing the nature of policy…

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