The Topic is Topics

This post occurred to me around the time water resources was announced as next year’s high school topic, but I had not sat down to write it until now. There are two areas I wanted to speak to. One concerns discourse on whether a topic is good or bad

"That's Fair": What You Should Do in the Post-Round

Well, we got trouble, my friends, right here I say, trouble right here in policy debate. Trouble with a capital "T" and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for post rounds.

Asked and Answered

I put out the call at the end of yesterday's post and quarantine is still surely boring enough for someone to answer it!

Revenge of the Takes

Ohhhh you thought the musings were over did you? You thought the most popular website about policy debate on the internet (fact check: true) had closed its doors? No no no, just lying in wait until you let your guard down. Until you open yourself up to be barraged by

Belated Clay '20 Fun Takes

You read 3500 words of my earnest feelings and thoughts. We will return to those another day. You have earned some aggro takes I have been keeping in my pocket since the Clatterson. 1. The tags be no good I think people have an appreciation of the first level ups

So Much to Talk About If We Can Talk to Each Other

As the world is imploding for the millionth time in the past seven days, I feel like there is a parallel occurrence in college debate. However, unlike in the real world, where a new thing happens every hour, a lot of what burdens college debate accumulates over years, as issues

GS(N)U '20 Takes

It has been a long hiatus for discourse fueled by musings and takes, but we are back. Something actually useful might happen in this blog post. Preseason is a unique part of the season that most people do not do well. It’s very long, but prone to distractions. You

A Year's Worth of High School Takes on the '19/'20 Topic

An entire topic’s worth of takes in one post? Let’s get to it.

The K and Me

A retrospective on K debate in 2020

Senior Year without the NDT

A guest post by Genevieve Hackman