18
July
This is a pretty funny exchange between a debater trying to find author quals and an author pretty reasonably responding to their rudeness. It reminded me of this classic when a debater emailed a think tank leader to ask if they had published a good card just to affect the outcome of a debate [...]
17
July
A recent article in the Harvard Business review offers some good responses to AT: K args about human selfishness: The biology of cooperation draws our attention because it speaks with the authority of the most reliable way we know how to know: science. If we simply say the word empathy, it sounds mushy. If [...]
15
July
From the future- BRYAN W. MARSHALL Miami University BRANDON C. PRINS University of Tennessee & Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy Power or Posturing? Policy Availability and Congressional Influence on U.S. Presidential Decisions to Use Force Presidential Studies Quarterly 41, no. 3 (September) 2011 We argue that the more important effect of [...]
13
July
And its sweet In an unprecedented “forecasting tournament,” five teams will compete to see who can most accurately predict future political and economic developments. One of the five is Tetlock’s “Good Judgment” Team, which will measure individual differences in thinking styles among 2,400 volunteers (e.g., fox versus hedgehog) and then assign volunteers to experimental conditions [...]
11
July
Hat tip to Georgia Ramachandrappa/Watson for holding onto this for so long- For those seeking access
8
July
The Emory Debate Institute has put up a new lecture on space militarization by Dan Reiter, Professor of Political Science at Emory University and former (boo) Northwestern debater.
7
July
Most people learn by the end of their first day of camp not to cut straw man cards in the vein of “some people say”. But I have often commented in post rounds that debaters do themselves a disservice by purposefully underrepresenting (or misunderstanding) their opponents arguments in the round/when responding to them. This article [...]
28
June
Here is a lecture from the Emory debate camp given by Susan Kroskey. Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Emory University Graduate and former member of the Debate Team and Russell R. Romanella. Associate Director for Engineering and Technical Operations at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC). There [...]