Ben VothBen Voth is professor of rhetoric and director of debate and speech programs at Southern Methodist University, USA. His latest book is An Invitation to Debate: Reasoning and Argument as a Framework for Civil Society. As a collegiate spech and debate director he has coached more than five world champions, more than thirty national champions, and more than fifty state champions in speech and debate competitions over the past thirty years. He is also the author of Rwanda Rising: Debate as an Empowering International Pedagogy and The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text, as well as co-author with Robert E. Denton of Social Fragmentation and the Decline of American Democracy: The End of the Social Contract. Read More Read Less