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  • What Does Debate Teach?

    Image via Wikipedia In the Hua-yen universe, where everything interpenetrates in identity and interdependence, where everything needs everything else, what is there which is not valuable? To throw…

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  • That Terrible Republican Debate

    Image via Wikipedia The other night I had to watch that terrible, terrible Republican debate on CNN. In between Tim Pawlenty’s impersonation of a bad John Edwards, and…

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  • Visual Arguments in the Wild

    One of the greatest things about living in New York city for me is the graffiti. I take pictures of it whenever I can. But it has to…

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  • Debaters and the Library

    Image via Wikipedia First of all, here’s an American Debate Semifinal for you to have a look at. Lots of reliance on cited sources and files in this…

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  • First Day of Summer

    It’s coming up on the first official day of summer. So what have I been doing since April? Reading I really enjoy the blogosphere these days. And my…

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  • Anxiously Awaiting Summer

    It is a horrible time. That time just before summer where debate fades out and you realize just how behind on everything else in your life you have…

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