Archive forOctober 29, 2009

“Competitive and Slightly Unhinged”: Why college debaters dominate Washington’s political scene By Sophie Gilbert from Washingtonian Magazine, November 2009, pp. 66-67 © 2009 Washingtonian Magazine, Inc.; used by permission. When Politico ran a front-page story about Austan Goolsbee, the headline was DEBATE CHAMP GOES POPULIST FOR OBAMA’S PLAN. The story noted how “silver-tongued” Goolsbee–recently appointed [...]