Ideally food and farming wouldn’t be political. Decisions about how food should be grown or raised, processed, and provided wouldn’t be left for politicians and citizens to cast votes. As consumers, decisions about how...
For the Stoa agriculture debate topic, and for the NSDA (public school) health insurance topic, understanding the Hidden Half of Nature is key. The invisible half of nature are the microbes underground, underwater, and...
Critics of welfare for the poor argue that too much “helping” creates dependency. Books like When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself explain that poverty...
Federal agriculture subsidies, taxes, and regulations confuse and distort farming and ranching across the country. This 2021 article in The New Republic Abolish the Department of Agriculture is subtitled: The USDA has become an...
Next year’s Stoa league policy topic calls for reforming federal agriculture policy. American industrial agriculture and aquaculture have long been blamed for heavy water, soil, and air pollution. Environmentalists have called for reforms to...
Here are Stoa policy debate resolution choices: intellectual property, infrastructure, or agriculture. Resolution wording and overview here. Economic principles and history provide insights for economic freedom reforms. Reforming IPEconomic Thinking talks on IP reform...
For students researching the Central and South America topic, foundational principles for free societies can shine light on real world economic, civic, and political reforms, and open doors for investment. This Atlas Network interview...
An earlier post, U.S. Foreign Policy and Economic Freedom for Central and South America discussed the history of U.S. military interventions in Central America. I’m researching a separate post on nutritional support programs in...
The National Speech and Debate Association lists current LD, Public Forum, and Policy topics. Below are notes on the November-December Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Resolved: The United States ought to rewild substantial tracts of land. Many...
Though most guest workers for US agriculture travel from Mexico, thousands come from Central and South America. The WSJ Op-Ed, Red Tape Is the Biggest Crop on Some Farms (Aug. 28, 2015) reports: The...
