(Revised from November 4, 2014/October 27, 2016 post) The United States doesn’t run an old-style foreign empire. But one could argue the U.S. runs an”experimental empire” where foreign military operations and foreign aid projects...
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in Why foreign aid fails – and how to really help Africa (The Spectator, January 2014) discuss the influence their book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and...
The American Enterprise Institute’s Jessica Trisko Darden, in Youth radicalization is rising, and the international community is unprepared (AEIdeas, June 11, 2018), first reviews the ways children and mothers have been manipulated and used in terrorist...
The NCFCA league offers a resolution for reforming or abolishing the European Union. NCFCA members have voted, and if the European Union resolution is chosen, it will be announced at the national tournament. Emmanuel...
In 1986 I was directing education programs, including high school debate programs, for the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York. FEE’s monthly magazine was The Freeman, long edited by Paul Poirot and I...
Consider the NSDA immigration reform topic, the Stoa foreign aid reform topic, and all three NCFCA topics (West Africa, European Union, International Terrorism): what if a single case could resolve or at least shed...
The public school NSDA policy debate topic for the coming school year calls for immigration reform: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its restrictions on legal immigration to the United States....
Economic Thinking Workshops page updated with 2018 Summer camps and ET Workshop flyers. Economic Thinking Workshops page here. Summer Stoa and NCFCA Debate Camps • NIHD National Institute and Other NIHD Camps • Ethos Debate Summer Camps ...
Announced at NITOC, the coming year’s policy topic will be: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its foreign aid. For those who preferred the infectious disease or environmental convention topics, the...
[Notes from NITOC flyer with additional information] In addition to online resources, presentations at summer debate camps, and fall workshops, Economic Thinking works with and recommends these organizations and programs: • American Logos, training...
