Steve the Sophist

A professor of rhetoric shares his views and opinions on debate, argumentation, rhetoric.

Sophistic Debate: Topic Archive

  • Halfway Point in Sapporo

  • Tokai University

  • What, not a travel blog?

  • Kitakyushu University is Organized

  • Really Great Debaters – Kyushu University

  • Halfway Finished Already??

  • Without internet, but with plenty of food

  • Lecturing Japanese High School Students

  • Tomorrow: Japanese High School

  • Welcome to Fukoka

  • More Reflections on Policy Debate in Japan

  • Amazing Sushi

  • The East-West Debate Tournament in Tokyo

  • First Day Success at JBDF

  • First Day in Tokyo

  • Blogging from Japan

  • Libraries

  • Politics and Poetics of Translation

  • Brain and Mind (and a return from silence)

  • Putting Students and Final Exams in Proper Order

  • CEDA/NDT Development Conference

  • Final Exams Abound But Still A Busy Time for Debate

  • Why not Oral Finals?

  • Debate's Missing Manual

  • The Classroom as a Public Space

  • The End of the University

  • Eliminate Public Speaking

  • Planning the Talk

  • The dreaded “Talk”

  • Upcoming Trip To Japan

  • Debate Surge in NYC

  • New School Tantrum

  • An American WUDC organization

  • Half Baked

  • Zero Hour Approaches

  • Amping Up

  • Odds and Rhetorical Ends

  • Shoot without a Target

  • It's Not Just Rhetoric

  • Another Aspect of Neoliberal

  • Kids Today

  • Good Old Zizek

  • Conservative intellectuals

  • Behind the Scenes at Baruch Regionals

  • New Debate Format?

  • Microlecturing?

  • Baruch Tournament Semifinal

  • Baruch Tournament Quarterfinal

  • Considering BP in the Northeast after Year Two.

  • BSDT 2008 Final Round

  • From the SuperModernism file

  • Google Video is not what it once was

  • workshop update

  • I know I should be at a bar, but wow.

  • Notes from DC

  • Slowly Posting the Videos from Cornell

  • To Brighten Your Day

  • Introducing Debate to New Students

  • Day after Cornell

  • Technological Reflection

  • Charts and Essentialism

  • Internetexuality

  • Should Elections be publicly funded?

  • Second Life Debate Posted

  • Playmobil Oddities

  • Excellent Scrimmage for STJ at King’s College

  • More First Life reactions to Second Life debate

  • Many Reactions to the Second Life Debate

  • Covering the SecondLife Debate from the FirstLife

  • A creepy and mind blowing invitation to the Second Life debate TONIGHT

  • Notebook vs. Computer File?

  • New Camera is here!

  • Glimpsing the Dark Future

  • For all those who are cynical or spit on wrestling

  • U Mass Final Round – Embedded Journalists

  • Fascinating Article

  • SemiFinal From U Mass

  • thoughts from the first day of the tournament

  • Thoughts on Disembodied Debating

  • Christmas is how far away?

  • Turtles All the Way Down

  • Conan, What is best in life?

  • B side wins again!

  • Good Morning, Obama’s America

  • A New Semester, A New Conceptualization of "The Student"

  • I think I will brew another pot after all

  • Since I’ll probably be busy on the Inauguration

  • Reflections on Cork 2 – “Persuasiveness”

  • Cork Worlds Reflections 1 – Consensus Judging

  • Cork Worlds 2009 – Post 1

  • Maribor

  • IDAS is imminent

  • Someone's Job is Someone's Escape

  • Mahabharata – Oldest Debate Ever?

  • Workshops for Faculty

  • Debate as a part of sense-making for climate change

  • Sick

  • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • Blogging from CT

  • FAIL

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