She also emphasizes the challenge of valuing diversity of viewpoints in scientific debate and debates about science in the public sphere.
It's unclear whether the two leaders will just turn up for their own preferred debates and debate with themselves.
These days, opportunities abound to glimpse the backstage maneuvers -- Ms. Mantz even had to chase out a male campaign worker wearing a woman's reporter credentials -- because the candidates are debating and debating and debating some more.
But of course lists are designed to trigger argument and debate, and argument and debate followed (and preceded) the publication of the issue.
Mr. Stables also teaches a class at U.S.C. called "Argumentation and Debate," in which students debate topics like terrorism, the Los Angeles budget and education policy.
As a non-debater, I was intrigued by your descriptions of the different styles and traditions in the high-school and college debate worlds policy debate and Oregon style, parliamentary debate, Lincoln-Douglas.
"My only regret is that if you are leading a political party, the election campaign is a moment when you really want to get around the country, you want to have arguments and interviews, and I found the whole election was just the run-up to the debate, the debate, and the analysis of the debate.
Begala advised candidates not to get too wrapped up in the debate over debates and to focus on the issues that voters are really concerned about.
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In the aftermath, the media scrambles to answer these questions, because we've got TV channels and websites to fill with speculation, and debating the debate is a tradition as time-honoured as any in American politics.
