Some styles of debate, such as Public Forum, involve familiar kinds of eloquence. Policy debate, however, is pure argumentative point-scoring.

Stockdale High School alum Glen Scully helped propel Michigan State University to its first-ever Front Royal Cup victory in the American Debate Association BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Bakersfield ...

Two of the University of Michigan Debate Team’s debaters — Public Policy sophomore Eleanor Barrett and LSA sophomore Cyrus Esmailzadeh — won against Georgetown University in a unanimous 3-0 decision ...

Polarization has become one of the defining threats to American democracy. The philosopher Robert B. Talisse distinguishes between two kinds of polarization: political and belief polarization.

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