Robert Litan Latest Book Highlights the Importance of Debate in Our Classrooms—Watch the PBS Documentary Based on His Book

Berger Montague Shareholder Dr. Robert E. Litan’s latest book Resolved: Debate Can Revolutionize Education and Help Save our Democracy (Brookings 2020) helped start a conversation about the power of introducing students to the art of debating. A PBS documentary, Beyond Debate: A Revolution in Education, examines public schools in Boston and Chicago that have recently adapted debate-based pedagogy. Dr. Litan’s work is featured in the documentary and he is also interviewed. You can watch the documentary here.

Dr. Litan Argues that Debate is Key to Restoring Civility in our Politics and Improving Critical Thinking

In Dr. Litan’s book and in the upcoming documentary, he explains how debate improves critical thinking among students and prepares them for a rapidly-changing world. Debate also helps foster important skills like listening, persuasion, and the ability to use fact-based research to construct and deconstruct compelling arguments—all of which, Dr. Litan argues, are severely lacking in modern society and politics. 

When Dr. Litan isn’t trying to save our democracy, he is leading some of the Firm’s most consequential antitrust litigation, including most recently against elite private universities for allegedly fixing financial aid and against the Ivy League universities for prohibiting athletic scholarships. 

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