The Stoa debate league has chosen its 2020-21 policy debate topic: Resolved: The USFG should considerably decrease its military commitments. US military commitments around the world (Montgomery Herald, July 9, 2018) reviews the scope...
Stoa league has Policy and LD topic choice with analysis: Spring Vote 2020. 1. Preliminary notes and links, first on foreign policy: Can this new think tank clean up America’s flabby foreign policy? (The...
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of National Socialism in Germany past inflations have wrecked civilizations (see Commanding Heights segment on German hyperinflation). Current inflation disasters include Venezuela and Zimbabwe....
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...
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...
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...
It’s always a good time to review, restructure, and reduce federal programs long shown to be ineffective. This includes programs for foreign aid, and foreign policy regarding international terrorism, plus legal immigration, recent national...
[Updated from earlier post on earlier freedom vs. equity value debate topic] For students researching and debating the foreign aid reform and international terrorism debate topics, Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel, North and South offers food for...
Notes and links for presentation to the Student Conference On National Affairs (SCONA) Texas A&M University, February 25, 2011 Below are updated notes from my presentation to military students attending the 2011 Student Conference...
(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...
