Professor Hammond's project to offer debate and argumentation instruction on Native American reservations is discussed, and it sounds pretty awesome.

We talk with Prof. Shelby Jo Long Hammond about Rocky Mountain College Debate, where BP is headed in Montana, and how long the drives are across that great state.

The Motion provides a non-partisan forum for the practice and learning of argumentation and debate on many topics. This debate happened live featuring members of the Motion.

In this episode we consider, rate, and review what we heard and experienced at the Rhetoric Society of America conference. Join Aaron, Logan, Steve, and Tim for a great chat at the Hilton Bar!

We discuss the happenings at the ECA annual convention in Pittsburgh! Plus, Cate shares her last-minute debate judging adventure tale where she heard some amazing arguments on AI from 13 year olds!

Cate Morrison joins the show to continue our series on Kritik debating by discussing the values of debating kritiks across format.

In recent debates participants have refused to debate topics on the grounds that they are being forced to argue for something they don't personally believe. We analyze this issue to see if there's a place for so-called "metadebate" in BP.

Join Steve for a conversation with Paul Hayes who is the founder of the Lafayette Debates, a debate program at George Washington University in cooperation with the French Embassy to the U.S. We discuss debate's value, civic debating, and what makes a debate practice good.

We chat about the value of the Lafayette Debates, a competition held annually at George Washington University and co-sponsored by the French Embassy.

Patricia Johnson-Castle talks about her experiences as a coach in Capetown, South Africa along with her former student, Michaela Ho, who just recently took on the role of coach there. There are a lot of challenges, and we discuss them - along with the possible solutions.