Military Adventures, Postal Subsidies, Malaria, and Cholera US military commitments after guano (earlier post) turned to subsidizing mail sent across Central American with postal subsidies. The demand for mail and Americans traveling to California...
Monday, October 5 • The Birth of Freedom – Acton page and Trailer • Globalization at the Crossroads, Hernando de Soto • Free or Equal, Johan Norberg • Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a...
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...
Economics of NCFCA topics playlist are posted. These are early versions of presentations I would give at Economic Thinking workshops, and overheads are drawn from past similar debate topics. Below are more recent videos...
[Updated April 30 with new title, notes on Google searching, and links from FDAReview.org] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has attracted a wide range of critics. Some criticize FDA regulation of cherries in...
Discussions and debates over U.S. immigration policy have been around for over a century, and longer if you count Benjamin Franklin’s writings on German immigrants. A history of American anti-immigrant bias, starting with Benjamin...
Resolution wording: Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform its policy regarding veterans. Discussion of resolution on Stoa page here notes: “…the Department of Veterans Affairs is woefully underperforming…” Ethos Debate Voting...
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...
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...
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...
