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April
Fresh on the heels of yesterday’s MalgorCast, we are back with the latest edition of The 3NR Podcast. Clocking in at more than 90 minutes, this episode focuses largely on reader-submitted questions and includes discussions of the following topics: Woodward Tournament Review: Disclosure Award, Division Eligibility, Scott’s Absence Announcement: Will Repko Podcast at the NDCA [...]
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April
Stefan, who also wrote the paper, has posted a topic intro for next year on planet debate. For those of you who have been posting questions about that topic you will probably get a better answer if you post it there since Stefan knows what he is talking about.
5
April
Some thought he was dead. It turns out he just smells that way. Malcolm Gordon put down the Xbox and the Krispy Kreme box to join Scott Phillips for another MalgorCast. In this edition, the two sexiest men in the world* discuss some of the reader submitted questions, or more accurately, use some of the [...]
5
April
Here are a few links that have been sent to me re: policy relevance since the reps thread, there are some both ways http://www.adbi.org/discussion-paper/2005/09/09/1356.think.tanks/conclusions.the.challenges.of.policy.relevance/ http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11624 http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/02/18/more-on-the-disconnect-between-ir-academics-and-beltway-people/ http://www.prisonplanet.com/how-government-cash-created-the-climategate-scandal.html http://personal.inet.fi/tiede/markku.sotarauta/opetus/markussen.pdf http://www.iheid.ch/webdav/site/political_science/shared/political_science/3452/walt.pdf
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April
Particularly if the neg reads frameworks institute style evidence Comments? Exactly right, I think. It’s fun to think of clever ways of selling one’s policies, but in the real world it’s not bound to do much good. Oh, both sides should try; as long as you don’t believe your own propaganda, there’s nothing wrong with [...]
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April
In the near future we will be recording a podcast and a malgorcast, so if you have questions that you haven’t posted yet do so here.
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April
I am sure you are all in orange alert prep for the Tournament of Champions, but I thought I would post this now anyway as a bit of a distraction. I am sure you have all read the Zarefsky, Mitchell, and Perkins article from the Winter 1990 issue of The Annals of Arcane Debate [...]
31
March
DOWNLOAD Blood, sweat and tears went into the 1.5 update to the Debate Synergy program. I’ve been receiving about two emails a day about Debate Synergy since October and have used it myself in over fifty rounds; I have learned from experience what works and what doesn’t. What’s new in 1.5? The virtual tub system is [...]
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March
I got a few requests to put together a list of books someone should read if they have no K background and wanted to start working on an IR K for next year’s topic. I figured I would churn out a basic one in case anyone wanted it for the TOC as well, and will [...]