[June 5 update: energy policy topic chosen.] Ace Peak posted debate notes on the NCFCA policy resolution choices of immigration reform, FDA reform, and USFG energy policy reform. Economic Thinking workshops, blog posts, and...
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform one or more of the laws administered by the Department of Labor. This 1995 Heritage Foundation Report doesn’t call for reforming laws administered by the...
• Resolved: Individuals have a right to health care. Consider the language from the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free...
The Stoa league offered three policy resolutions: 1. banking, finance, or monetary policy reform, 2. Federal labor law reform, 3. Veteran’s policy reform. Stoa resolution wording and discussion is here. [Update: the banking/finance/monetary policy...
Novelists can be inspired by the past but can also create a past of their own to influence others, painting vast injustices with magical words and stories. In the news recently: “‘One Hundred Years of...
Prices are falling for travel by bus, ship, train, car, and airplane. For tourists, this is good news. It now costs much less to tour the country and the world. As travel costs fall,...
Debaters are unusual and among the few engaged in public policy debates not guided or influenced by special interests. America’s founders used the term factions, and argued that when government meddles in the economy it...
Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg’s TED2005 talk Global priorities bigger than climate change has nearly 1.5 million views. Commenters can critics disagree with Lomborg and argue climate change should be the biggest priority. Unlike many critics of...
With Marvel’s Infinity War showing on Netflix, millions who rarely venture to movie theaters can immerse themselves again in the Marvel universe. For Marvel readers, Thanos seems similar to Galactus facing the Fantastic Four in The...
Imagine a young Ebenezer Scrooge debating the foreign aid or international terrorism topics. How do we best reduce poverty and conflict in the developing world? Scrooge competed in an early 1800s English debating society...
