Steve the Sophist

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

Sophistic Debate: Topic Archive

  • Being Your Own Professor

  • What Happens if the Republicans Withdraw from the Presidential Debates?

  • Three Understandings of Rhetoric

  • bell hooks

  • Writing Habits; Writing Hinderance

  • New Year, New Rhetoric

  • Episode 3 of the Lonely Office Hour

  • Animal Crossing

  • Publication

  • The Lonely Office Hour: Episode 2

  • The Lonely Office Hour

  • The Worst Part about Current Political Rhetoric

  • Why I Like Doctor Who

  • Winning Arguments Podcast & Behind the Scenes

  • SSRU Podcast: What Is Good Biography?

  • ACAC

  • SSRU #5: Why is Writing so Scary?

  • Boston

  • SSRU Podcast #4: Start the Day with Making

  • Rhetoric Itself

  • SSRU Podcast #3: Consumption

  • Legal Argumentation Course Update

  • Building an Argumentation Podcast in Public

  • The Hottest New Voting Trend

  • SSRU Podcast Episode 2: Facebook and Civic Discourse

  • The Four Book Rule for Course Design

  • Sophistic Steve Podcast #1: The Experiment in Orality

  • When we call for "National Debate," What is it We Want?

  • Playing With Substack

  • New York City, Rhetoric, Invention

  • Planning a Course in Legal Argumentation

  • Speaking Into the Air

  • Rhetoric, Oratory, Argumentation, and Debate

  • Moved!

  • The Canonical Debate Lab is on a Mission to Clean Up Internet Debate

  • New Podcast Episode: Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Post-Structuralism

  • Cooking and Debating: Debating and the Need for a New Metaphor

  • Should Students Speak about Controversy in the Public Speaking Class?

  • That’s Not Relevant

  • A Year of Online Debating – Reflections and Lessons Learned – New Podcast Episode

  • The Biggest Problem for Universities are Students

  • Kenneth Burke’s Terministic Screens – A Conversation

  • Discussing Kenneth Burke’s Essay “The Virtues and Limitations of Debunking”

  • New Podcast Episode on Free Speech Debates and Rhetoric

  • What is the Future of Speech, Oratory, and Rhetoric?

  • Engaging the creative works of creators who are problematic

  • Innovative, Powerful and Unpredictable Debate Arguments

  • New Rhetoric Lecture Videos on my YouTube and Vimeo Channels

  • New In the Bin Podcast on the Teaching of Rhetoric and the Fallacies

  • The Toulmin Model and its Continued Influence over Argumentation

  • The Return of the Oral Exam to American Universities

  • That Semi-Annual Introduction to Rhetoric Talk

  • In the Bin Visits France in this New Episode

  • Recognizing what’s missing from teaching debate in an online class format

  • Why the National Communication Association Should Host Public Debates at the Annual Conventions

  • New Podcast Episode: When Should We Not Debate and How Do We Know?

  • New Podcast: Possibilities and Potential between debate and the university

  • The Unexpected Pause

  • Paper Or Plastic?

  • A Podcast on the Relationship Between Music and Argument

  • There are Topics Not Worth Debating. How Do We Know?

  • Considering Two Films about Desire

  • A First Resolution for 2021, emphasis on “resolution.”

  • Holidays, Celebrate (Just One Day I Would Like)

  • What is a Desirable Debating Culture?

  • Finally a Big Snowstorm in Queens

  • Who Gets to Determine the Available Arguments on an Issue?

  • Human Beings are No Longer Listening Carefully

  • The Reason that Debating is as Important to Education as Writing

  • What is Missed in Calls to Return to In-Person Teaching

  • Principles of University Teaching for the post-COVID 19 Campus

  • Principles of University Teaching for the post-COVID 19 Campus

  • Abandoning Facebook, Instagram, and their Derivatives

  • Classroom Podcasting or Video Lectures?

  • Feeling Gratitude

  • Remembering Brad Smith

  • The Week Ahead

  • What’s in a Debate Name?

  • We’re Hiring Someone who Does Debate, What do you Think?

  • Rhetoric, Kairos, Metallica, and PBS

  • Favorite American History Documents and The Pedagogy of Argument and Debate

  • Why I am Looking Forward to Grading This Week

  • Competitive Debate is not in the Hands of Educators

  • Procrasti Nation

  • Is There Anything to say about Yesterday’s Speeches?

  • I Gave an Impromptu Lecture on Debate and it wasn’t Terrible

  • Wading into the Relationship between Professor and Teacher

  • The Problem with My Lecture Videos

  • Explaining Pragmadialectics to Undergraduates, or Why Do I Assign Readings Like This?

  • Facebook is a terrible place

  • The Dissolving Federalist Papers

  • Originalism, Interpretation, and Really Important Job Interviews

  • Originalism, Interpretation, and Really Important Job Interviews

  • What the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Teach Us about Political Debating

  • What is Real Debate?

  • What Chris Wallace Should Have Done as Moderator of That Horrible Debate

  • What Chris Wallace Should Have Done as Moderator of That Horrible Debate

  • How to Watch National Political Debates, such as the U.S. Presidential Debates

  • The Presidential Debates in the Context of How Bad We Are at having Debates at Any Kind

  • The Best Structural Change Would be to Stop Debating

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