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The Rebuttal Nobody Prepares For
Most students rehearse their opening. Almost none rehearse the moment their strongest point gets dismantled in fifteen seconds.
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Logic and Reasoning
Spotting a False Dilemma Before You Fall Into One
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Critical Thinking
Reading the News Like a Skeptic, Not a Cynic
There's a difference between questioning a claim and dismissing it outright — and it's the difference that makes critical thinking useful.
Knowledge and Epistemology
What Socrates Got Right About Not Knowing
On the discomfort of admitting the limits of what you know, and why that discomfort is where real learning starts.
Education
Grading Curiosity Instead of Just Correctness
A classroom experiment in rewarding the quality of a student's question, not only the accuracy of their answer.
Leadership
The Leader Who Asks Instead of Announces
Command-and-control leadership scales badly. A look at what changes when a team leader defaults to inquiry over instruction.
Ethics and Society
When Free Speech and Responsibility Collide
Debate culture prizes the right to argue any position. It says far less about the responsibility that comes with holding one.
Communication
Silence Is Also a Sentence
What debaters learn about pacing and pause applies just as well to ordinary conversation — if you let it.
Debate
Cross-Examination as a Thinking Tool, Not a Weapon
The best cross-examiners aren't trying to win the exchange. They're trying to find out what's actually true.
Public Speaking
Your Hands Are Saying Something Different From Your Mouth
A short primer on the gestures that build trust on stage, and the ones that quietly undercut it.
Logic and Reasoning
Correlation, Causation and the Chart That Fooled Everyone
A famous graph, a common mistake, and a simple habit that catches it before it reaches a headline.
Ethics and Society
Teaching Teenagers to Disagree Without Contempt
Disagreement is not the problem in most classrooms. Contempt is. A workshop leader's notes on separating the two.
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