Great Barrington Declaration coauthor praises new leadership at Stanford for making his conference possible. Heterodox ...

Christine Lewis with the Portland Urban Debate League told Newsweek that she is hyper-focused on "making sure we're a ...

The conduct of Muir and Davis is inconsistent with the general ethic of academic debates as practiced by high school and ...

In consecutive years, Nobel Prize winners had faced challenges in the modern academic ecosystem. The debates around the ...

For decades, political scientists have maintained that debates don’t really matter. Then 2024 came along. President Joe Biden’s nationally televised face-plant not only knee-capped his bid for ...

Organizations can thoughtfully structure debates to maximize productivity and minimize toxicity while fostering innovation ...

While politics plays a zero-sum game, that process is poorly suited for a university setting because academic debates do not have clear winners and losers in the same way. Science, culture and law are ...

I hosted a debate on WhatsApp between an academic and a campaigner, focusing on whether there's a case to be made for stronger restrictions on children's use of smartphones. What follows is an ...

three professors — each representing a different academic discipline — will argue for the survival of their field after an imaginary shipwreck. The lively debate strikes a balance between humor and ...