Dewey from Madison and Professor Steve discuss how in the world the CNN Presidential Debate is possible.

Is it possible from the perspective of Federal Telecommunications Law?

Will the candidates actually show up?

Will Third Parties Participate?

Join us for all this and more from our new podcast studios now conveniently located in Rocky Point, New York!

Welcome Summer!

Alan and Steve talk about the Presidential debates - are they valuable?

Steve talks about student evidence use - how can we teach this better?

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In this episode, Steve and mischa discuss a variety of debate formats including NDT, CEDA, NFA LD, IPDA, and WUDC.

What are debate formats meant to be? Are they meant to teach? What are some alternative formats that might be better?

On this In the Bin:

Why do organizations create such bad debate models?

Are the Presidential Debates going to happen in 2024?

How do we define debate?

And much more!

The Bin Panel for this round is:

Mischa!

Dr. Joe Packer Director of Debate at Central Michigan University

Alan Smith from alanwsmith.com

Bentley Davis from bentleydavis.com

Timothy High, co-founder of Canonical Debate Lab

Dewey, "Rhetoric's Everyman"

Join Steve, Tim and Bentley from Canonical Debate Labs in a discussion about debate that involves:

1. Why does the National Communication Association hate debate?

2. Why is r/debate on Reddit so terrible?

3. What is the cool new project Bentley is working on to help us understand public controversies?

As always your comments are welcome!

In this episode, Steve talks to Dr. Louden, Professor Emeritus of Communication at Wake Forest University about the past, present, and future of NDT and CEDA debate.

Dr. Louden was Director of Debate at Wake Forest for 30 years and offers some incredible insights on debate history as well as contemporary trends in debating in the United States.

ITB is back, and in this episode, we discuss IPDA, high school parli, NPDA, and some of the educational slack and lack in intercollegiate and high school tournament debate. Why does intercollegiate or tournament debate always wind up at the same place?

A nice chat with Cate about union arguments and how to make them stick. 

Also Steve shows his tepid excitement for NCA by complaining about his schedule. We'll have a live show from the bar as per usual at NCA in New Orleans!

Public Forum debate: What's Steve's beef with it?

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We talk about teaching argument, the tests of evidence, and how to make the Toulmin model work for you

How do we make sure that fake, false, or mis-information doesn't take over our spaces for democratic deliberation? In this episode we are joined again by Canonical Debate Lab founder Timothy High and reasonpedia.com creator Bentley Davis. Both are from the CDL and believe that they are creating something that will help reduce the risk of misinformation or purposely misleading or false information doesn't live long in our public debates.