What Does It Mean to Behave?

The future of our country depends on it…

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My father and boyhood friend Charles were national debate champions. I admire their ability to use logic, and intelligence, with just the right amount of rhetoric, passion, and wit.

I was no debate champ but had a decent ability to use creative storytelling to convince others I had the better argument. Yet I remember a fellow classmate saying I…