One reason was that he paid little attention to academic debates in the first place.

The issue is not just a matter of academic debate or civic pride.

In that critical moment, race relations was not an academic subject for calm debate.

However academic the debate may appear, a lot depends on who's right.

This academic debate was topical during the 1970s and 1980s.

There has been a long academic debate on what makes services different from goods.

Whether this operation would have worked is a matter of academic debate.

Personally, I do not think that an academic debate of this kind would be useful.

And it was a big academic debate between the two different factions.

Their true extent has long been the subject of academic debate.