This post, “Owning the Peanut Gallery,” by Maria Farrell at the ‘Crooked Timber’ blog is well worth
reading—especially by anyone who ever participated in university-level debating
in North America. It is hilarious and does a great job in capturing what it was
like to take part in university tournaments in the early 1990s, especially from
the perspective of Canadian teams visiting the U.S. And of course any post that
further illuminates the comprehensive awfulness of Ted Cruz is worthy of
praise.
The post brought back my own
memories of debating in Canada around the same time (I represented University College
at University of Toronto). I recall going to tournaments at Yale and Harvard,
and encountering Cruz (and Austan Goolsbee, and others), although—thankfully—I
don’t recall ever debating Cruz myself.
(Nitpick: A friend points out
that this claim in the post is incorrect: “We’re the highest ranked Canadian team at a US tournament, ever, at that
point [1993].” A team from the University of Toronto
made it to the finals at Harvard in
1992.)
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