Depicting warlike behavior as inhuman and outside of normal human behavior justifies further horrific behavior.

Education has been reduced to School. How can we reverse this dangerous result?

I hated teaching this year because there's nothing valuable left to teach. The university is complicit in offering only discipline and obedience to the students.

Amazon's treatment of Twitch is about more than video games. Originally published in January of 2024.

The stock issues approach is a hermeneutic precisely because it generates mastery over knowledge. It generates an ordering principle from which the speaker can generate what is known about the opponent’s case, the topic, the evidence, etc. This is the rhetorical power of the stock issues approach to policy debate.

What should be done about the Presidential Debates? News organizations are begging for them. Good for them. Bad for us.

The major problem facing higher education in the United States is the university administrator.

What does it mean when politicians and/or journalists call for "national debate" on an issue?

The head of most of the research funding in the UK has said that scientists and politicians need to "debate better." What in the world does this mean?

The tournament-debate phrase "Uniqueness overwhelms the link" just rolls off the tongue. No wonder we hear everyone using it in everyday argumentation.