Big Idea: Spending Arguments That Don’t Stink! (Alternative impacts to...
We’ve all been there. You’re in a round aga […] The post Big Idea: Spending Arguments That Don’t Stink! (Alternative impacts to spending disadvantages as an introduction to nonconventional...
View ArticleAlternate Causality as Aff Solution
So we all know that alternate causality arguments are a […] The post Alternate Causality as Aff Solution appeared first on Ethos Publications.
View ArticleOverview of a Disadvantage and How to Respond
I was recently asked several questions about disadvanta […] The post Overview of a Disadvantage and How to Respond appeared first on Ethos Publications.
View ArticleImpact Calculus
What would you say if you saw a warrior do battle and l […] The post Impact Calculus appeared first on Ethos Publications.
View ArticleThe Kind of Evidence to Put in a Masking DA
Reader Ryan Funkhouser from Washington submitted the fo […] The post The Kind of Evidence to Put in a Masking DA appeared first on Ethos Publications.
View ArticleRevisiting Nuclear War, Part 1
Earlier this year, I ventured back out into the forbidding lands of public school policy debate, to help judge. Once again, I was sorely let down by what I saw. In all of the rounds I watched, there...
View ArticleRevisiting Nuclear War, Part Two
Nuclear war usually appears in debate rounds about as often as Hitler: with absurd frequency. In this post, Harrison finishes discussing another technique for responding to nuclear disadvantages. Read...
View ArticlePractical Principles: The Bad Precedent Disadvantage, Part 1
There’s a common misconception that, in TP, moral arguments and pragmatic arguments don’t mix. That’s false. This article is about the Bad Precedent DA—one of the main ways you can couple your...
View ArticlePractical Principles: The Bad Precedent DA, Part 2
Last week, I introduced the Bad Precedent DA. It’s a great way to take a principle-based argument and turn it into a practical impact. We’ve already seen the big picture and one way to structure this...
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