Tag: Debate

  • Nation & World

    How to engage in cool-headed debates on hot topics

    Eric Beerbohm named senior adviser for civil discourse, planning initiatives, training for students

    7 minutes
    Eric Beerbohm pictured outside Lowell House.
  • Nation & World

    It’s seriously debatable

    Members of the Harvard Debate Council must research endlessly, analyze quickly, and talk intelligently and rapidly.

    4 minutes
    The Harvard debate team.
  • Nation & World

    Debating the debates

    On the eve of the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Harvard analysts discuss whether presidential debates offer citizens civic value anymore and how to improve them as the nation navigates its political differences.

    16 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Debate duo makes it to grand finale

    In 2012, Fanelesibonge Mashwama ’17 and Bo Seo ’17 met on a bus in South Africa en route to an international debate tournament. Little did they know that fate would lead them from two different continents to Harvard, to Pforzheimer House, and ultimately to triumph earlier this month at the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC),…

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Duo wins ‘Worlds’ debate competition

    Josh Zoffer ’14 and Ben Sprung-Keyser ’15 have won the 34th edition of the World Universities Debating Championship.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Well, that’s debatable

    Four Harvard experts — on voice, movement, public speaking, and trial law — critique the last presidential debate and offer the candidates their tips for the next matchup.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Pre-emption: Preventive, coercive, or both?

    In the wake of 9/11, how to defend the country in a new age of terrorism has sparked an ongoing, often divisive debate. Some consider tactics like pre-emption, the right to use force to respond to an imminent threat, and preventive war, the use of force to prevent a serious threat from worsening over time,…

    5 minutes