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July
Here is a list of some awesome tech tips from Akshay Bhushan. The windows 7 shortcut one is especially awesome. With most teams going paperless next year, I thought this would be useful to them. I found a lot of debate related downloads/add-ons that could potentially be useful. Greenhill kids are now using some of [...]
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July
In a few of the podcasts I have mentioned that one of the reasons the K is so successful is that over the years people have spent a ton of time refining their evidence/arguments so that now a K debater going for the cap K has the best evidence on each issue produced by thousands [...]
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July
There is a big error in one of the cards in the security K file I posted. On page 26 “AT: DA To Alt/Threats Real” the card from Rule 10 is actually 2 cards that I accidentlly smushed together with the elim hard returns macro. Half way down you can see in the small text [...]
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June
The Tyranny of Guilt In a critique of the West’s postcolonial self-flagellating tendencies that is both fascinating and repellent, prize-winning French novelist and essayist Bruckner (Tears of the White Man) offers a broad defense of neoliberal democracy as a force for progress, enlightenment, and emancipation. In polemical tones, the author identifies how the aftermath of [...]
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June
This is a starter security K file I did for camp this summer. Summer Security K Fixed Summer Security K Fixed-old word Edit- if you have questions/comments please post them here instead of emailing me.
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June
With topic relevance Sex and the Shaheed: Insights from the Life Sciences on Islamic Suicide Terrorism Theoretical insights from evolutionary psychology and biology can help academics and policymakers better understand both deep and proximate causes of Islamic suicide terrorism. The life sciences can contribute explanations that probe the influence of the following forces on the [...]
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June
In the post-cold war world those engaged in making foreign policy seem adrift searching for new ideas. Despite the growing production–and in some cases the sophistication–of scholarly literature on questions in international relations, policymakers seem to ignore much of this scholarly work in their search for new policy ideas. The contributors to this volume examine [...]
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June
An interesting read with marginal educational value There are many sources of fear in world politics — terrorist attacks, natural disasters, climate change, financial panic, nuclear proliferation, ethnic conflict, and so forth. Surveying the cultural zeitgeist, however, it is striking how an unnatural problem has become one of the fastest-growing concerns in international relations. I [...]
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June
This is the sort of moment that people write books about, a moment when the size of the personalities matches the scale of the stakes they’re wrangling over. The real question is whether this Democratic President and the military, symbolized by Petraeus, can make the adjustments necessary to live with each other. It seems obvious [...]