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Let’s Talk About That High School Debate Story
(Courtesy of Incubate Debate Facebook)
A subscriber-only event this Thursday with James Fishback and high school debaters.
By Bari Weiss
05.30.23
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A talker. That’s the word one of my old editors would use to describe a story that would stoke conversation—and have an outsized impact on the culture. Last week, we published one of them.

James Fishback, a former debate champion, wrote about the hijacking of high school debate. Everyone from Rep. Ro Khanna to former Harvard President Larry Summers was t…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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