by jpitney | Jul 31, 2022 | Congress, Debate, Deliberation, Senate
Trent Lott and Tom Daschle at The Hill: First, the Senate should return to old norms for considering legislation. Filibusters, which date back to America’s earliest days, grew more common in the 19th and 20th centuries, prompting the Senate to adopt rules to end...
by jpitney | Jun 29, 2022 | Debate, Deliberation, Higher Education
Daniel Stid: Those of us who believe that the purpose of the university is to pursue truth must engage with and persuade those who may not share our convictions. A compelling way to do this is by practicing what the Heterodox Academy calls “The HxA Way,” which they...
by jpitney | Jun 14, 2022 | Debate, Deliberation
Bo Seo at WSJ: [D]ebate provides a tool kit for disagreeing better. By zooming out from individual disputes to the principles that apply across them, debate can illuminate the physics of everyday disagreements. Debaters learn to isolate the main elements of successful...
by jpitney | May 21, 2022 | Debate, Deliberation, Higher Education
Heterodox Academy Open Inquiry Awards: Exceptional Student Emma Camp graduated from the University of Virginia in 2022 with a degree in philosophy and English. While at the University of Virginia, she was a Jefferson Scholar, a regular freelance writer for Reason...
by jpitney | May 15, 2022 | Civility, Debate
Tish Harrison Warren at NYT: Our tendency to adopt polarizing and moralistic patterns of speech is turbo-boosted by a social media architecture that encourages animosity toward outgroups. But this hatred toward our opponents and the accompanying habit of moralism is...
by jpitney | Apr 25, 2022 | Debate, Deliberation, Higher Education
Eleventh Circuit decision in Speech First, Inc. v. Cartwright: speech policies at the University of Central Florida likely violate the First Amendment. [In] determining the propriety of preliminary injunctive relief[, we consider, among other things, whether plaintiff...
