A Problem with the 2015 WUDC Manual
What’s wrong with how we judge rebuttal
Overall the 2015 WUDC debating manual is amazing. It’s comprehensible, comprehensive
How to judge well
This article was originally published on Seventwenty, the dutch debating magazine at: http://www.debatbond.nl/seventwenty/
How to judge
The blog begins again
Hello Future Reader
As of today I've decided to restart and begin seriously working on this blog. From
The Opp case for " heavily restricting the intake of refugees to transfer more funds refugee camps"
Note: The following piece was originally posted as a reply to a debater who asked what the opp case was
Training Variants 1: Different Types of Debate
For the best part of my first year in debating our clubs' training sessions were little more than lectures
Rhetorica Newsflash: 24/07/2014
(Below is a copy of a newsflash given to rhetorica members on the 24th of July)
Hey debaters. A few
the water drop,it slides down or pushes up.
Bismark said that all statesmen did was try and catch the coatails of god . When life is ending or one
HIstory and "Primary Movers"
When reading history or works which rely greatly on perceived historical facts it is shocking how many otherwise brilliant historians
Libya
What happened in Libya was distinctly different from what had, and will, happen in the Arab world; Unlike in Tunis
Thucydides
Of all the classical historians to me Thucydides seems to be the one with the greatest claim to legitimacy. This