Recent Exercises

  • Repertoire

    This weekend is the King’s tournament, and it looks like the end of the 2014-15 season for us in terms of general tournaments. Of course, there’s USU, but…

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  • Connecticut Snows and Elimination Debates

    I’m here to challenge a trope – well, more than a trope, something that is the nearest thing to holy writ in U.S. debating circles. That trope: More…

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  • Preposition Proposition

    One of the greatest advantages one has as a teacher of debating is that you get to work with students at strange times in strange places and under…

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  • Is it Necessary? Is it Accidental?

    Welcome to the new blog site! I thought a change was in order after not posting for so long.  I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the…

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  • Debate process and the koan

    It fell out from the back of the book I was flipping through, looking for a quote for a piece I am writing about conceptualizing debate as a…

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  • Explain It To Us!

    English: Bakhtin in the twenties. Español: Mijaíl Bajtín en los años ’20. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Not everything is meant to be accessible to the public. The definition of…

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