14
July
In response to the “bad cards” post about the popular “Corsi 2005” impact to terrorism, many readers requested suggestions for different cards that could be read to support the same basic argument. This is a difficult task; it is unlikely that a terrorist attack—even one using a nuclear device—would result in the extinction of humanity. [...]
12
July
The Crowdsourced List of Critical IR and Critical Security Studies Journals has been updated to include links to most of the publications that have been recommended. I have also created a Google Reader Bundle that includes all of the listed journals as well as several others that I think will be helpful when researching the [...]
9
July
Team A is negative. They read a very complex and sophisticated kritik, that all comes from 1 author. Team B is affirmative, and in the 2AC they read 5 or 6 sort of stock K answers and then a card just tagged “Neg loses”, that goes on for about a minute. In response to this [...]
9
July
The list of freely available lectures from this year’s summer debate institutes has been updated this morning and now includes 49 lectures from four institutes. It would take almost three full days to watch all of these videos. Students and coaches should give a big “thank you!” to Cal, Emory, Georgetown, and Texas for sharing [...]
8
July
The consolidated K answer project has gotten a lot of good responses with a few people in particular going above and beyond and contributing quite a bit. But there is always more to do! Please email in any contribution you can- cards, cites, books/articles that look good. Especially for the sort of stock K args [...]
7
July
I just did some youtube searches for authors that came up when researching the security K looking for vids. There are a million of them, I did some mild quality control in picking some of the ones I thought were better.
7
July
(update- found by bricker) This looks like a pretty bad ass dissertation, and theoretically some schools should have access to it through their proquest dissertation subscription. If anyone at a university for the summer for camp can find it I would appreciate it. or this (found by bricker) or The heterarchical society: Explaining and understanding [...]
6
July
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5
July
Ken Booth Master-Debating in International Relations Millennium – Journal of International Studies 1998 27: 141-144.
5
July
From wikipedia: The Forer effect (also called the Barnum Effect after P.T. Barnum‘s observation that “we’ve got something for everyone”) is the observation that individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide [...]