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This post is inspired by Max , who wrote an LD case for the March/April humanitarian aid resolution based on the work of Emmanuel Levinas. ...

This post consists of value and criterion pairs for the March-April 2014 LD humanitarian aid resolution , which states: Placing political co...

As someone who watched Phil Hartman kill it on Saturday Night Live in the early 90s, I'm old. Hartman's second-to-note Bill Clinto...

An important way to divide up ground between the Affirmative and Negative in the humanitarian aid resolution ... Resolved: Placing political...

The March/April LD humanitarian aid resolution invites a careful parsing. Resolved: Placing political conditions on humanitarian aid to fo...

The National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) has released the March-April 2014 Lincoln-Douglas debate ...

One of the hot buzzwords cropping up in debates about the "environmental protection versus resource extraction" resolution is the ...

This post is aimed at my Washington state colleagues, but you're welcome to read it, too. It's about something I first considered t...

What follows is an analysis of particular empirical evidence for the fabled "time skew" in Lincoln-Douglas debate. The Contex...

The first post about the animal rights resolution has sparked a lot of great questions. Rather than try to answer them in the comments, I...

The September / October 2011 Lincoln-Douglas debate topic has been released: Resolved: Justice requires the recognition of animal rights. I...

Whitman U's Jim Hanson sends along word that the NFL has released its slate of potential topics for 2011-12: 1. Resolved: The United Sta...

Recently, a reader noted , I am having a lot of trouble defining "national interest". I feel like definitions are going to be ext...

The NFL has released the topic for the 2011 national tournament: Resolved: When forced to choose, a just government ought to prioritize uni...

With North Africa and the Middle East exploding in conflict, now's a perfect time for the NCFL's LD resolution for the May champion...

The other day, while attempting to answer a reader's debate question about the use of PMFs in South Korea, I came across the website of ...

Now that the postseason is winding down, it's time to focus primarily on general LD questions. The first concerns tactics in the first ...

The March / April LD resolution asks us to consider the use of PMFs to pursue U.S. military objectives abroad. How does the changing face ...

The Private Military Firms resolution presents plenty of framework options for the Aff and Neg. Resolved: The United States is justified ...

Why might the U.S. be justified in employing Private Military Firms (PMFs) to attain its overseas military objectives? In "Contractors...