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...
New frontiers of scientific discovery can fill us with wonder and excitement. New planets or meteors or subatomic particles discovered, or new medical breakthroughs to cure diseases, new flying cars, energy sources, or nanotech...
Earlier posts have discussed the three announced motions for the The Winter Holidays Open in Zagreb. (STEM searching, Enviro cost accounting, Poor environmental accounting, 100% Inheritance tax) This post wonders if evil scientists popular in movies scare...
NCFCA’s 2020-21 topic on E.U. immigration reform is connected to past topics on foreign aid, transportation, agriculture, China, and ocean policy. All key topics because for mankind, prosperity follows agriculture, fisheries, transportation, and trade....
