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...
Imagine a young Ebenezer Scrooge debating the foreign aid or international terrorism topics. How do we best reduce poverty and conflict in the developing world? Scrooge competed in an early 1800s English debating society...
New frontiers of scientific discovery can fill us with wonder and excitement. New planets or meteors or subatomic particles discovered, or new medical breakthroughs to cure diseases, new flying cars, energy sources, or nanotech...
NCFCA’s 2020-21 topic on E.U. immigration reform is connected to past topics on foreign aid, transportation, agriculture, China, and ocean policy. All key topics because for mankind, prosperity follows agriculture, fisheries, transportation, and trade....
In Tyler Cowen’s new book Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals, sustaining and improving economic growth is the key to the future. Tyler Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments—A Review (Quillette,...
Many articles supporting foreign aid tell of polls showing Americans think foreign aid is 25% of the federal budget when, these articles claim, foreign aid is only 1.2%. The Balance post, Current U.S. Discretionary Spending:...
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in Why foreign aid fails – and how to really help Africa (The Spectator, January 2014) discuss the influence their book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and...
In 1986 I was directing education programs, including high school debate programs, for the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York. FEE’s monthly magazine was The Freeman, long edited by Paul Poirot and I...
Consider the NSDA immigration reform topic, the Stoa foreign aid reform topic, and all three NCFCA topics (West Africa, European Union, International Terrorism): what if a single case could resolve or at least shed...
The public school NSDA policy debate topic for the coming school year calls for immigration reform: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its restrictions on legal immigration to the United States....
