by Toby Rivas | Oct 30, 2018 | Disadvantages, Negative, Strategy, Theory, TP
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 principle-based arguments with a pragmatic dimension. We’ll discuss it in... 
by Harrison Durland | Mar 28, 2018 | Disadvantages, Nuclear War, Strategy
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 part one here. The arguments are generally wrong/invalid This... 
by Harrison Durland | Mar 21, 2018 | Affirmatives, Disadvantages, Negative, Nuclear War, Strategy, Theory
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 was excessive speed and spread, generic evidence, and, perhaps worst... 
by Harrison Durland | Nov 5, 2016 | Debate, Disadvantages, Nuclear War, Strategy, TP
“And this brings me to the next disad disad 2 nuclear war card 1 Matthews ‘08 nuclear war most gasp-gasp likely in Asia reads evidence… and now gasp-gasp card 2 Greer ‘09 South China Sea (SCS) unstable reads evidence… now we gasp-gasp have link 1 their... 
by Harrison Durland | Apr 28, 2016 | Debate, Disadvantages, Guest Posts, Strategy, Technique, Thinking Strategically
As has been noted before, impact calculus it is a fantastic tool for both aff and neg, but it is terribly underused. I totally understand; it can certainly get complicated, especially as you get into the long list of (admittedly over complicated) factors like...