"I got destroyed. I mean, it was humiliation on the level," she says of her debate defeat. "My complete ignorance of this debating technique is what killed me." She admits to being excessively self-confident going into the debate. The monk debates were not about heckling; they were a very different format.
Maria Konnikova, Revisionist History’s ombudsman—who's also an author, psychologist and professional poker player—is back for another round. This time she reads letters from the audience on the power of debate, and whether or not certain four letter words belong in Pushkin’s podcasts. Maria and Malcolm also look at the Columbia cheating scandal from a different angle, and hand out one more sparkling Pushkin Prize.
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