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The Presidential Debates in the Context of How Bad We Are at having Debates at Any Kind
Monday night I gave a talk to Cornell Law School’s American Constitution Society about the history and development of Presidential Debates. I thought I had shared this already, but it looks like I forgot to post the thing I was originally writing about it. It’s a good thing too – these debates are well beyond…
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The Best Structural Change Would be to Stop Debating
The Commission on Presidential Debates released a statement about yesterday’s Presidential debate, seemingly unaware that they are the reason the debate was so poor. Here’s the text: The Commission on Presidential Debates sponsors televised debates for the benefit of the American electorate. Last night’s debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the…
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Is It Time To Abandon The Presidential Debates?
After last night’s performance, many of us are wondering about the state of our politics and our leaders. We are worried about the state of political discourse in the United States. We are experiencing, or have experienced alienation from close friends and dear family members over acerbic speech. And the debate, the Nationally televised, globally…
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Debate and/is/as A Singularity
One of my most read essays is one that was unanimously rejected from every editor who has had a look at it. I’ve imagined re-writing it recently in order to make it a bit more publishable. I figure since it’s circulated a bit it might be able to find a journal home for a while,…
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Evidence-Based Debate
American policy debate fundamentalists have found a new phrase to martial in their panicked defense of their practices. I don’t know why they feel so threatened; policy debate can easily co-exist with many different debating styles. But fundamentalism ensures that there is an either/or, a very significant conflict where the stakes are the highest they…
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The Well of Debate Tropes
Currently Playing: Loreena McKennitt – An Ancient Muse The old issues of The Journal of the American Forensic Association are some of my favorite things to leaf through to generate thinking. This journal, edited by debate teachers, was filled with the thoughts of those who immersed themselves in debating as a vocation. As the 1980s…
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Great Extinctions
When we think about the loss of biodiversity, it evokes the idea of loss of variety, the loss of a diversity of creatures that, in essence, share a number of common traits. They have the same genus, and from that, they specialized, adapted, and spread out into their environments. Here’s some evidence that we’ve suffered…
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Montana bound
I no longer prep like I used to. Perhaps it is a sign of maturing as a teacher. Perhaps it is a sign of becoming comfortable with the role. More darkly – perhaps it is a sign of being over it, of losing feeling for it. I’m thousands of feet in the air above the…
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Connected
Yuzen, a buddhist monk from the Sōtō Zen sect begging at Oigawa, Kyoto. Begging is part of the training of some Buddhist sects. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It’s one thing to go around spouting off Buddhist quotes because they sound good, or because they are apt to the situation/audience (like a good Sophist does, so I…
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2012: Summer of Debating
I did not plan, and usually don’t plan to have debate in my summers, but this summer has been an exception. Opportunities to do some off the path teaching for me have been too hard to turn down. I’ve recently returned from my first event with the International Debate Education Association (IDEA) in Leon, Mexico…
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