Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Back in 1992, my school friend Daniel Saxby and I stood in London in front of an audience of worthies and a panel of ...

One side for an argument or motion, and one side against – the basics for any debate. In Hong Kong, many students will take debating classes, either as a hobby, or as something much more serious.

The culture of debating has an august pedigree, stretching back to ancient Greece and India and perhaps reaching its height during the Age of Enlightenment in both England and what was to become the ...

The Harvard ideal of debating has two essentials: good "form" and argument backed by evidence. Though "form," or the method of presentation, is not given as great consideration as argument, its ...

This collection of essays aims to turn down the heat and turn up the light on the question of whether religion should be a force shaping our public policies and our common civic life. This collection ...

Picture this: you’re a student at a Chinese Medium Instruction (CMI) school. You like the challenges of learning and using English. You’ve been reading articles about debating in Young Post, and ...

Daniel A. DeBois ’18 and Archie J.W. Hall ’20 defeated hundreds of opponents to win the 2018 World Universities Debating Championship last week, becoming the third Harvard team to take first prize in ...

A team of five high-schoolers who represented India at the World Schools Debating Championship brought laurels to the country with their skilled argumentation and eloquence. HYDERABAD: Unlocking their ...

October 11-12: We went to Harvard for APDA motions with 7 Bates teams and a hybrid team. Manav and his Hybrid Yuki made it to Partial Double Octos. Congrats! The Brooks Quimby Debate Council is the ...

Debating doesn’t only mean good speaking skills. As the debating societies of Delhi University (DU) show, it’s also about personality development, experience and learning. If you’ve participated in ...