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...
[Revised from original May 16th post] Mostly stuck in the pandemic, curious about Covid-19, social distancing, and lockdowns, plus regulation of testing, masks, and treatments. Best maybe not to watch evening news (better described...
Overview presentations with notes on two of the Stoa policy topics. Stoa 2020 Penal Reform Topic Stoa2020: Federal Labor Law Reform
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...
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...
The NCFCA debate league announced three topic choices for the coming school year:1) The European Union should substantially reform its immigration policy.2) The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its development assistance to...
Energy is big business, and so is food for human energy. Students can gain insights into energy policy and politics by looking at the competing supply ecosystems of the food industry. Ranchers, pig farmers,...
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....
The post below Twelve Monkeys: One CDC, was featured June 1, 2007 on Victor Niederhoffer’s Daily Speculations. Twelve years have passed since 2007, bringing astonishing progress, especially for the world’s poorest families. Matt Ridley...
An earlier post on fossil fuel and renewable energy subsidies (End Ethanol/Biofuel and Fossil Fuel Subsidies) noted not taxing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel energy has been called a multi-trillion dollar fossil fuel subsidy....
