The Debates Have Been Awful, But There Is Hope
19 October 2016
While we’re secretly pulling for the candidates and their respective camps to end up on Family Feud (“Donald, Bill what’s something you’d hear in a locker room?”), Open to Debate formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S. has a more viable solution.
What the nonpartisan, nonprofit org is suggesting is nothing new: rather, it’s a switch to a classic debate format originally developed at Oxford University.
Since its inception in 2006, IQ2 has held over 120 stimulating debates around the country utilizing this substance-first style.
