by Patrick McDonald | Oct 6, 2021 | Nuclear War, Tournaments
Before I begin, I ought to inform you that I am deeply unqualified to give this advice. I have spent much of my life looking far more stern than most people would consider proper, and still think myself an unflappable pessimist. Read at your own peril. Out on a Limb...
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 Blog, 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...
