From Network Narratives to Russian Nihilism
Life is better for many and worse for some. The stories people read and hear shape how they understand wealth or poverty in their own lives. We compare our life to those around us...
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Sweat Equity for Sweatshop Workers?
Lincoln Douglas debaters have economic freedom versus equity as a national topic. It’s value debate rather than a policy debate, but if freedom should be valued above equity, or equity above freedom, these value...
Hope and Chains: Many Affirmative Cases Will Collide or Fail
Many of the federal government’s current marine natural resource policies are failures. That is, they have failed to achieve the goals stated when current policies and legislation was first proposed or amended. This reality...
Frédéric Bastiat and Davy Crockett on Misguided Voters and Elections
Bryan Caplan, in The Myth of the Rational Voter, examines why democratic majorities tend to vote for people and policies that slow social progress and economic prosperity. Caplan argues that voters tend to make systematic errors...
Federal Election Laws Protect Those Already in Office
For the new NCFCA policy topic (“Resolved: That federal election law should be significantly reformed in the United States), students should step back and reflect on the role of elections. Edmund Opitz at Foundation...
Wal-Mart Seen and Unseen
How do we measure a community’s net loss or gain when new stores come to town? There is no easy way to measure progress, nor to measure decline. From a distance, and over decades...
Regulate or Certify Emerging A.I. Technologies?
For the Stoa policy topic how do USFG vs. NGO approaches compare? (U.S. Federal Government vs. Non-Government Organizations). Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform the use of Artificial Intelligence technology. In...
Federal Prison Policies
The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its policies regarding convicted prisoners under federal jurisdiction. NCFCA debaters have a small slice of the US prison population and policies to research and reform through...
Notes, Books, and Videos: Poor Nutrition and the Pandemic
Notes below from Facebook posts on nutrition, public health, and the pandemic. Most Americans have poor metabolic health from poor nutrition (study finds only 1 in 8 are metabolically healthy). Links below to articles,...