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...
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 ...
Transportation Policy Institute is a trial Economic Thinking project helping current and alumni debaters engage the public policy world with the research and advocacy skills developed through the debate season. Many affirmative cases–some from...
The proposed NCFCA West Africa topic is a big one and a good one for researching geography, economics, and international relations. West Africa has a big future as populations and economies surge. Christianity is...
Economists have long been skeptical of national industrial policies, where politicians and bureaucrats try to pick and subsidize winning technologies of the future. Congress is currently debating tax reform and considering dropping federal subsidies...
Past posts have outlined problems with the federal government’s continued rocket planning and contracting. See “Federal Space Transportation: Time for Reform,” for example. The benefits of federal space transportation planning and rockets tends to...
Overheads for presentation at University of Houston for UIL students. Some overheads were updated since emailing to UIL. Click for PDF of updated overheads (links should work to various articles and videos): UILEconExtemp2017new.key
[Article by Martin Anderson for the Sept./Oct. NSDA LD topic: “Resolved: In the United States, national service ought to be compulsory.”] Today an understanding of what national service is all about is obscured by...
Electric cars are popular with investors, and the New York Times reports on booming market value as “Tesla Passes Ford in Market Value as Investors Bet on the Future,” (April 3, 2017). Tesla’s Elon...
