by Thaddeus Tague | Apr 28, 2018 | Lincoln-Douglas, Stoa, Stoa Resolutions
Stoa has released their prospective resolutions for the 2018/2019 debate season! You can check them out here, and be sure to stay tuned for the Ethos Voting Guide (coming soon). In the meantime, take a look at this post that tackles a major issue involved in one of...
by Noah Farley | Oct 27, 2017 | Lincoln-Douglas, Stoa, Stoa Resolutions
In the last two pieces, I’ve discussed a couple of things that have changed due to the new resolution we’ve drawn for Stoa this year. So far, we’ve covered the proper role of values in a fact resolution and the lack of need for applications to prove the resolution....
by Noah Farley | Oct 7, 2017 | Stoa, Stoa Resolutions
This is Part II of a series on What’s Different for Stoa LDers this year. Part 1 can be found here. Having covered values, we now move to contention-level arguments. Last debate season, for the resolution “The Needs of the Public ought to be valued above private...
by Joshua Farquhar | Sep 15, 2017 | Stoa Resolutions
Transportation policy. Two simple words. One simple term. Easy enough to debate, easy enough to define. Right??? Nope. Sorry, hoss. No matter how you search, you won’t find a credible definition of “transportation policy” on the web. At least, I haven’t. If you...
by Emily Rose | Jul 11, 2017 | Bonus Evidence, Coaching, Debate Rounds, Lincoln-Douglas, Question and Answer, Stoa, Stoa Resolutions
Get ahead on this year’s STOA LD resolution by getting an overview of the topic and having your questions asked and answered. Ethos’ Emily Rose interviews political scientist, history buff, and war veteran Dr. Joe Dunn on the subject of preemptive war....
by Noah Farley | Jun 26, 2017 | Stoa Resolutions
Preemptive Warfare is morally justified. Within that simple phrase are a boatload of questions. What does it mean to be morally justified? What moral obligations do states have? Is preemptive warfare necessary? Is warfare ever justified? Those questions are...
