For my first quarter-century on the planet, I fled from arguments and disputes, manifesting all the courage and toughness we associate with rabbits. When I saw a disagreement start up, I was soon lost ...

“Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard” is the debut book from two-time world champion debater Bo H. Seo ‘17 HLS ‘24. Seo’s entrance into the literary world is an ambitious and ...

I love a good argument. In fact that’s the reason I decided to apply to Yale. When I was first visiting colleges, Yale stood out to me as a place with a unique intellectual spirit. During my visit to ...

The most important factor that drove me and my childhood friend Becca apart, politically, is that we went our separate ways, socially. I went to a liberal university in a city; she went to a ...

Filmmaker Sydney Pollack contended that good movies should be two sides of a good argument. “The essence to me of all good drama is argument,” the late Oscar-winner said. “I can’t say that either side ...

Arguments are tricky. We spend a lot of our time trying to persuade others. We think that if we show them the facts that we have they will, logically, reach the same conclusions we did. Unfortunately ...