Or We Need Actual Peer Review, not this Monstrosity

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This September is finally starting to feel like fall and I’m experiencing quite a bit of nostalgia for my old debating life. The smell in the air and the quality of the light on campus make me anxious that have not booked a bus or hotel yet; that I made plans on a Saturday to…

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Attitude and Engagement at the start of the term

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A great chat I had impromptu this morning with my friend and colleague Matt about one of my rhetoric lectures that I have given over the years at Cornell University. The version we are discussing is this one from about five years ago: Even though I have several iterations of this talk available on YouTube,…

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This summer has been one of great travel and great ideas. I haven’t really been meeting my goals of doing regular videos or even regular writing, but June was a very concentrated moment for me in working through some nascent thoughts. Here’s a talk I gave with Korey Stegared-Pace from Stockholm’s Microsoft Reactor. They focus…

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The first debate event occurred over a weekend at a university. The directors of multiple debate programs met in person and online to discuss the year ahead. The first day was about “equity,” a policy of discipline necessary at competitions where fairness matters more than anything. Since the debate event is organized around the idea…

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Not sure how you spent your Easter, but . . .

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Initial reaction, context, and what’s next for the Commission on Presidential Debates

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Debate and Lacan’s University Discourse

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