Wait! Don’t Drop Your Speech Just Yet

Wait! Don’t Drop Your Speech Just Yet

“If one of my sandwiches doesn’t hit the spot, there’s something seriously wrong with your spot.” Jimmy John’s Sandwiches If you like Jimmy John’s as much as I do, you’ve seen a sign with these words in one of their stores many times. While it’s clearly a joke,...
Don’t Demonize the Other Side

Don’t Demonize the Other Side

When I was just getting a good grip on how to debate well, I struggled with winning the judges over. Oftentimes the ballots blamed this on my aggressiveness, but looking back on it now, I realize that that was only one facet of the problem. Counterintuitively, the...