That's Debateable

Children's author Julia Wendt re-joins me to talk about Disney, conglomeration, and the monopolization of childhood stories.

I talk with book author, Communication Studies department chair and long time faculty member at the University of Denver, and also my former dissertation adviser Dr. Christina Foust about "Social Movements," power, hegemony, transgression, Ideographs, and conservatism! Just in time for peak election mayhem!

Children's author Julia Wendt joins me to talk about feeling fractured as a student and the value of fiction for social simulation.

Zach Lachenbruch formerly of the Montucky Skies and Box Office Battle podcasts joins me to talk about the clash of the comic world titans.

University of Oregon graduate student Sarah Hamid joins me to talk about race, data, and surveillance.

In the first "Mini Episode" of Season 2 Dr. Mary Lynn Veden joins me for the second time in as many months to talk about the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Mary Lynn Veden joins me to talk about her "rhetorical biography" of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and the US court system.

Dr. Christie Siver, an Assistant Professor of Political Science from The College of Saint Benedict St. John's University joins us to talk about the Women's Debate Institute and drones!

National Debate champ and championship coach Glenn Prince joins me to talk about the many debates about debating!

The Reverend Eric Atcheson joins me to discuss the debates about the existence of god.

Vanessa Frank joins me again to continue our conversation from Season 1 about America's complicated and often tragic immigration process.

I talk about my research interests in how arguments "make sense" and the implications these understandings have regarding a few misconceptions surrounding argument.   Good to be back!

My guest Zach Lachenbruch, formerly from Box Office Battle and Montucky Skies Podcasts, joins me to talk about Season Two of That's Debateable and the debate over whether college athletes should be paid.

I finish my conversation with my brother, physician and activist Jake Donaldson regarding the practical components of noniolence.

I talk with my brother Jake Donaldson M.D. about the theoretical underpinnings of Nonviolence - focusing in particular on Leo Tolstoy's book The Kingdom of God is Within You

Me and guest Amanda Taylor talk about the importance of stories and the debate between two of the most well known science fiction franchises.

I talk with friend and 2007 NPTE National Debate champion Luke Landry about the NDAA, tracking those killed by police, and the NSA.

I address my nervous interviewing habits and then California-based immigration lawyer Vanessa Frank joins me to talk about the new laws  granting so-called undocumented peoples the right to a driver's licenses, detention for profit, and the many different kinds of immigrant status.

I talk with Columbia Basin College instructor Miriam Kerzner about elections, Citizens United, Voting, and politics of the right and left.

Mini-Episode 2 - Special Focus on the Ferguson Protests