How About Just Teaching Debate?

Update: 2025-05-21

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Instead of saying debate and argument are failures of human communication, how about just trying to teach people how to debate well?

In this episode I take on the traitorous email I got from C-SPAN and critique the mission and perspective of Braver Angels. These are two examples of the trend of excommunicating debate from human communication instead of addressing the need for better and increased debate education.

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