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So it would be an understatement to say that I had to work extremely hard to get my seat at the table and access to television, because the network decided that they would only include those with 2.5 percent or more in the polls in the first TV debate.

I found out on the afternoon of the first TV debate that I would participate along with the three men, and I found out on live TV that I came in at exactly 2.5 percent on the day of the first TV debate.

You know, in my field, there's a debate about whether architecture can even do anything to improve social relationships.

The more I became involved in public debate, the more hate mail and threats I received.

That can only be achieved through debate, critical conversation and insisting on dialogue that doesn't demonize people.

Even when someone does call for empathy and understanding for the other side, the conversation nearly always devolves into a debate about who deserves more empathy.

For several years now, we've been engaged in a national debate about sexual assault on campus.

DB: I would say he understood what, frankly, I didn't, which is what debate we were having.

And so I'd grown up starting with Reagan, and it was the big government versus small government debate.

It was Barry Goldwater versus George McGovern, and that was the debate we had been having for a generation.

That was the debate.

He understood what I think the two major parties did not, which was that's not the debate anymore.

The debate is now open versus closed.

Here's a man who has single-handedly revolutionized a major American party because he understood where the debate was headed before other people.

The narrowing of debate is real.

We're living in a world of alternative facts, where people don't find statistics this kind of common ground, this starting point for debate.

How can we have public debate about immigration if we can't at least agree on how many people are entering and leaving the country?

And in much the same way as they decided that four-year-old Julia might benefit from gymnastics to burn off some energy, they decided that I might benefit from joining a debate team.

My first debate in the cavernous auditorium of Canberra Girls Grammar School was kind of a bundle of all of the worst mistakes that you see on cable news.

And despite this very shaky entry into the world of debate, I loved it.

I saw the possibility, and over many years worked really hard at it, became really skilled at the technical craft of debate.

Debate is a way to organize conversations about how the world is, could, should be.

And so, as an entry point into that: debate requires that we engage with the conflicting idea, directly, respectfully, face to face.

The foundation of debate is rebuttal.

Without rebuttal, it's not debate, it's just pontificating.

That's why it's a debate.

But the trick of debate is that you end up doing it directly, face to face, across the table.

And if we are to expand that notion a little bit, nothing is stopping us from pressing pause on a parade of keynote speeches, the sequence of very polite panel discussions, and replacing some of that with a structured debate.

All of our conferences could have, at their centerpiece, a debate over the biggest, most controversial ideas in the field.

Each of our weekly team meetings could devote 10 minutes to a debate about a proposal to change the way in which that team works.

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