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| ASU | 1 | Opponent: Hamilton AL | Judge: Anish Ramireddy 1ac technoorientalism |
| ASU | 3 | Opponent: Presentation AB | Judge: Moon Sung Gwak 1ac whole rez struc violence |
| ASU | 6 | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Bennet Fees 1ac space tourism |
| Glenbrooks | 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VM | Judge: Jared Croitoru 1ac courts |
| Glenbrooks | 3 | Opponent: Hunter AI | Judge: Alex Rivera 1ac semiocap baudy |
| Glenbrooks | 6 | Opponent: Dulles VN | Judge: Chris Castillo 1ac kant n trix underview |
| Glenbrooks | 7 | Opponent: McNeil AG | Judge: Scott Phillips 1ac Giroux |
| Greenhill | 3 | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Tom Evnen 1ac - must disclose contact info must post speech docs immediately |
| Greenhill | 1 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: David Dosch 1ac covid |
| St Marx | 2 | Opponent: Dulles VN | Judge: Jonathan Hsu 1ac kant |
| St Marx | 3 | Opponent: Marlborough VA | Judge: Eric He 1ac whole res |
| St Marx | 6 | Opponent: Marlborough HL | Judge: Dillon Johnson 1ac covid |
| St Marx | Doubles | Opponent: Little Rock MG | Judge: Panel 1ac transpacific reimaginings |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: You | Judge: Me | 9/18/21 |
1 - K - ColorblindnessTournament: St Marx | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dulles VN | Judge: Jonathan Hsu Academic philosophy is anti-Black – the 1AC's abstraction from the material consequences of racialized violence absolves white philosophers of their contributions to America's apathy towards Black death – their race-neutral rhetoric and assertion of universal humanistic principles reduces systemic racism to a problem of recognition that prevents effective mobilization against white supremacy – vote negative to reject the Western metaphysical tradition and recognize the permanent failure of white philosophy.Tommy J. Curry and Curry 18 ~Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama~, "On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 Even if they win that their colorblindness is theoretically ideal, it is practically impossible because racialized bodies are marked by their skin color – the psychological construction of Black as inferior makes their impacts inevitable – philosophy's segregation of black scholarship is not neutral and not normal.Tommy J. Curry and Curry 18 ~Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama~, "On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 Racism deems Black life disposable and demands racialized violence – we're not an ad-hom that criticizes the positionality or personal views of their authors – their philosophy is actively used as an expression of white supremacy and to rationalize the deaths of Black men and women.Tommy J. Curry and Curry 18 ~Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama~, "On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 This turns the aff – America is organized around the subjugation and death of non-white people – discriminatory applications of their policy are inevitable absent a recognition of racialization in the law – their colorblindness is mutually exclusive with the necessary upheaval of the racial dynamics that necessitate inequality.Tommy J. and Gwenetta Curry and Curry 18 ~Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama~, "On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 Instead you should affirm Black philosophy as a site to engage in radical theorizations that are a genuine reflection of Black experience – attempts at integration commodifies Black philosophers as extensions of white thinkers which waters down Black philosophy to a form for white philosophers to deem respectable scholarship – a fundamental reorientation of the discipline away from universal reason is key.Tommy J. Curry and Curry 18 ~Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama~, "On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 | 10/16/21 |
1 - K - RhetoricTournament: St Marx | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Little Rock MG | Judge: Panel Their Mao and Young evidence deploys "rhetoric" as an empty signifier- Asian rhetoric becomes interchangeable with Asian discourse. While the aff gains nothing from its invocation of "rhetoric", the globalization of rhetoric to apply to any and all subject matter collapses rhetoric's specificity and disciplinary usefulness. Vote neg to endorse the aff without the appeal to an Asian rhetoric.Gaonkar, 93 — Northwestern University rhetoric and public culture professor; Center for Global Culture and Communication director Globalizing "rhetoric" to sub-disciplines destroys rhetorical criticism- if everything is rhetorical, rhetoric is too shallow to carry meaning. This takes out solvency- "big rhetoric" cannot command sustained attention. The link is proven in this round – they apply rhetoric to "resist injustice", "interrogate disciplinary spaces", and "destabilize power".Schiappa, 1 – University of Minnesota rhetoric professor Rhetoric must retain its specificity- "small rhetoric" is vital to check the monopolization of power by demagogues which turns their offense about xenophobia and orientalism.Bryant, 65 — University of Iowa rhetoric professor Their invocation of rhetoric in the Mao and Young evidence turns the case-A. Tradeoff- if rhetoric can be globalized to supplement every discourse that means rhetoric is the foundational knowledge which must be studied, not the aff's special discourse of rejecting orientalist tropes. An aff ballot becomes a win only for rhetoric- it makes rhetoric the star instead of the meaningful components of the affB. Knowledge production- the discourse and lexicon of rhetoric undermines knowledge production- it's a distraction from the specificity of their object of study.INSTEAD- implicitly acknowledging the role of rhetoric without invoking its name solves all of the aff- even the rhetoric good argumentsGaonkar, 90 — Northwestern University rhetoric and public culture professor; Center for Global Culture and Communication director | 10/20/21 |
2 - T - ExtratopicalityTournament: St Marx | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough VA | Judge: Eric He Interpretation: Affirmatives must defend only that The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.IP protections cover patents, industrial design, trademarks, geographical indications, and copyright/related rights.WIPO 20 ~World Intellectual Property Organization, an agency of the UN; "What is Intellectual Property?"~ ~DS~ Violation: The aff does all the highlighted mechanisms of the solvency card - I've listed are all the planks that violate – doing these actions doesn't reduce anything listed above.Strengthen technical capacity to ensure patent examiners apply strict patentability criteria and screen out unmerited applications this is kinda weird to cite but just check my os for this one ig | 10/16/21 |
2 - T - FrameworkTournament: St Marx | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Little Rock MG | Judge: Panel Interp: Affirmatives must only defend the implementation of member nations of the wto ought to reduce ipp forThis does not require the use of any particular style, type of evidence, or assumption about the role of the judge — only that the topic should determine the debate's subject matter."Resolved" means enactment of a law.Words and Phrases 64 Words and Phrases Permanent Edition (Multi-volume set of judicial definitions). "Resolved". 1964. Here is a list of the member nations of the WTO – aff is not thatWTO 7/29/16 ~World Trade Organization, "Updated Member List"~ ~DS~ Reduce diminish ==== ====Intellectual property protections includes trade secrets==== Violation – ~insert~TVA- TVA: COVID AFF that discusses how IP waivers haven't been instated due to techno-Orientalism solves 100 of the case – you can still include performance and the criticism. Disads to the TVA prove neg ground and no right to a perfect 1ac Vote Neg – The resolution is the only common stasis point that anchors negative preparation. Allowing any aff deviation from the resolution is a moral hazard which justifies an infinite number of unpredictable arguments with thin ties to the resolution. Because debate is a competitive game, their interpretation incentivizes affirmatives to run further towards fringes and revert to truisms which are exceedingly difficult to negate—this asymmetry is compounded by their monopoly on preparationThat outweighs – The competitive incentive from debate creates pressures for research and focused clash which generates important skills and makes debate a training ground for future work. The impactSuccessful movement organizing is analogous to mainstream politics – it requires skilled organization, negotiating relationships, strategic leadership, and proto-institutionalism – sacrificing debate as training ensures we never translate opinion into political power, but requiring the aff defend contestable positions linearly increases debate's capacity for movement advocacy as they get more predictableHan and Barnett-Loro 18 ~Hahrie Han, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara. Carina Barnett-Loro, Climate Advocacy Lab, San Francisco. To Support a Stronger Climate Movement, Focus Research on Building Collective Power. December 19, 2018. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00055/full~~ Its better for their aff – honing our skills as Asian American debaters by rigorously testing our ideas is the only way to disperse Asian rhetoric into the worldDebate doesn't have any effect on the political and the individual arguments we read have no effect on our subjectivity, even if they spur immediate reflection, those insights aren't integrated into deep-stored memory—this means you can vote negative on presumption. Encouraging focused, nuanced research and clash is the only chance to change attitudes long term—which means they can't solve their impact turns but our model can.filter their impacts through predictable testability —-debate inherently judges relative truth value by whether or not it gets answered—-a combination of a less predictable case neg, the burden of rejoinder, and them starting a speech ahead will always inflate the value of their impacts, which makes non-arbitrarily weighing whether they should have read the 1ac in the first place impossible within the structure of a debate round so even if we lose framework, vote neg on presumption. They also create a moral hazard that leads to affs only about individual self-care so even if you think this aff is answerable, the ones they incentivize are not, so assume the worst possible affirmative when weighing our impacts.State bad isn't offense against topicality bc they don't have to defend it AND you can criticize the state bc you defend a change from the squoDrop the debater – the round shouldn't have happened in the first placeNo RVIs – this includes impact turns and independent voting issues – | 10/20/21 |
3 - CO2 AgTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Hunter AI | Judge: Alex Rivera Co2 key to ag and habitat diversity—their impacts are hype.Goklany 15. (Dr. Indur M. Goklany, PhD MSU, is a science and technology policy analyst for the United States Department of the Interior, where he holds the position of Assistant Director of Programs, Science and Technology Policy. CARBON DIOXIDE The good news. http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2015/10/benefits.pdf) | 11/20/21 |
3 - Capitalism GoodTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Hunter AI | Judge: Alex Rivera Cap solves war—-liberal order good and won't collapseMichael Mousseau 19, PhD, studies international politics with a particular focus on the link between economic conditions, institutions, and conflict, 7/29/19, "The End of War: How a Robust Marketplace and Liberal Hegemony Are Leading to Perpetual World Peace," https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00352?mobileUi=0 Growth solves war – dataLin 17 ~Oon Yong; 4/23/2017; International Economics at SUNY Buffalo, under the supervision of Dr. Sandeep Bhakshar, PhD in economics; "Conflict and Trade," http://geoeconomics.net/2017/09/13/conflict-and-trade/~~ | 11/20/21 |
3 - Capitalism Good v2Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 7 | Opponent: McNeil AG | Judge: Scott Phillips Capitalism is sustainable and humanity's only hope against catastrophic climate changeShi-Ling Hsu 21, D'Alemberte Professor of Law at the Florida State University College of Law, Sept 2021, Capitalism and the Environment, Cambridge University Press, p. 50-52 We're past tipping points—-only tech solves—-the Aff causes dictatorship.Eric Levitz 21. Senior Writer at New York Magazine. MA Johns Hopkins. "We'll Innovate Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis or Die Trying". Intelligencer. 5-17-2021. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/climate-biden-green-tech-innovation.html Cap solves war—-liberal order good and won't collapseMichael Mousseau 19, PhD, studies international politics with a particular focus on the link between economic conditions, institutions, and conflict, 7/29/19, "The End of War: How a Robust Marketplace and Liberal Hegemony Are Leading to Perpetual World Peace," https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00352?mobileUi=0 Cap solves war.Allan Dafoe and Nina Kelsey 14. *Assistant professor of political science, Yale University. Research associate in international economics, University of California, Berkeley. "Observing the capitalist peace: Examining market-mediated signaling and other mechanisms". Journal of Peace Research. 2014. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24557445 Profit and growth are key to space colonization—-extinction.Kovic '19 ~Marko; March 2019; co-founder president of the Zurich Institute of Public Affairs Research; "The future of energy," https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/aswz9/download~~ | 11/21/21 |
3 - Debris Good v2Tournament: ASU | Round: 6 | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Bennet Fees Precision farming via satellites locks in unsustainable agriculture practices by securing agri-business' hold over small farmers globallyRuiz-Marrero 02 (Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Fellow at the Society of Environmental Journalists and a Research Associate at the Institute for Social Ecology, "Precision Farming: Agribusiness Meets Spy Technology", 10/2/02, http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/ViewPage.aspx?pageId=131) Unsustainable ag production is independently responsible for the biodiversity crisisLanz 18 (Bruno Lanz, University of Neuchâtel, Department of Economics and Business, ETH Zurich, Chair for Integrative Risk Management and Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Simon Dietz, London School of Economics and Political Science, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Department of Geography and Environment; Tim Swanson, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Department of Economics and Centre for International Environmental Studies; "The Expansion of Modern Agriculture and Global Biodiversity Decline: An Integrated Assessment", Ecological Economics, 144, 260–277, 2018, doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.07.018) | 1/8/22 |
3 - Inequality GoodTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 7 | Opponent: McNeil AG | Judge: Scott Phillips Inequality drives growthConard and Levine August 25, 2013 Ed Conrad is a former Bain Capital executive. "YALE'S THE POLITIC: AN INTERVIEW WITH EDWARD CONARD" The Politic - The Yale Undergraduate Journal of Politics "An Interview with Edward Conard" By Adira Levine http://www.edwardconard.com/yales-the-politic-an-interview-with-edward-conard/ Econ decline causes world war – there's no buffer now08 recovery isn't possible anymore | 11/21/21 |
JF - CP - MicrobubblesTournament: ASU | Round: 6 | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Bennet Fees CP Text: The United States federal government should fully fund a program to cover 4.8 of the surface of the Earth's oceans in a monolayer of 0.1 micrometer-diameter latex particles, either hollow, or of core-shell morphology, bearing a conventional stabilization system that is inactivated in salt water.Solves warming – the counterplan's reforms avoid any solvency deficit.Morgan '11 (John Morgan, PhD in physical chemistry, runs RandD programmes at a Sydney startup company, research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency, 10/8/11, "Low intensity geoengineering – microbubbles and microspheres," http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/10/08/low-intensity-geoengineering-microbubbles-and-microspheres/) | 1/8/22 |
JF - DA - InnovationTournament: ASU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Presentation AB | Judge: Moon Sung Gwak Strong commercial space catalyzes tech innovation – progress at the margins and spinoff tech change global information networksJoshua Hampson 2017, Security Studies Fellow at the Niskanen Center, 1-25-2017, "The Future of Space Commercialization", Niskanen Center, https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/TheFutureofSpaceCommercializationFinal.pdf Short innovation cycles mean every contract countsJohn J. Klein 19, Senior Fellow and Strategist at Falcon Research Inc. and adjunct professor at the George Washington University Space Policy Institute, 1-15-2019, "Rethinking Requirements and Risk in the New Space Age," Center for a New American Security, https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/rethinking-requirements-and-risk-in-the-new-space-age Tech innovation solves every existential threat – cumulative extinction events outweigh the affDylan Matthews 18. Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University. 10-26-2018. "How to help people millions of years from now." Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good | 1/8/22 |
JF - DA - Space Dominance v1Tournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Hamilton AL | Judge: Anish Ramireddy US wins space race now due to private competition – its key to space dominance and militarization is good – the plan nukes the US's silver bullet against Chinese aggressionWeichert 21 – former Congressional staff member who holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of The Weichert Report: An Online Journal of Geopolitics ~Brandon, "The Future of Space Exploration Depends on the Private Sector," 7/5/2021, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/the-future-of-space-exploration-depends-on-the-private-sector/~~#slide-1~~ Space dominance solves hegemony – deterrence strategies, even rudimentary ones, are perceived as weakness and causes aggressionWeichert 17 (Brandon J. Weichert. Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staff member who holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of The Weichert Report: An Online Journal of Geopolitics, "The High Ground: The Case for U.S. Space Dominance," Orbis, Vol 61, Issue 2, 2017, pp 227 – 237, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030438717300108) US hegemony prevents great-power conflicts that escalates to nuclear war – China and Russia are revisionist expansionistsBrands and Edel 19 (Hal Brands and Charles Edel. Hal Brands is the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs in the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Charles Edel is a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and previously served on the U.S. Secretary of State's policy planning staff, "Rediscovering Tragedy. In The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order; Chapter 6: The Darkening Horizon," Yale University Press, pp 128-131 http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbnm3r9.11) | 1/7/22 |
JF - DA - XiTournament: ASU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Presentation AB | Judge: Moon Sung Gwak China's "space dream" is key to Xi credibility – plan is a flip flop that undermines legitimacyKharpal 21 – senior technology correspondent based in Guangzhou, China at CNBC ~Arjun, "China once said it couldn't put a potato in space. Now it's eyeing Mars," 6/30/2021, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/30/china-space-goals-ccp-100th-anniversary.html~~ Flip flops trigger the disadBuckley and Myers 19 (Chris Buckley and Steven Lee Myers, "As China Trade Talks Stall, Xi Faces a Dilemma: Fold? Or Double Down?," New York Times, May 9, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/world/asia/xi-jinping-donald-trump.html) CCP instability causes extinction.Perkinson 12 — Jessica, Faculty of the School of International Service of American University in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in International Affairs; reviewed by: Quansheng Zhao, Professor of international relations and Chair of Asian Studies Program Research Council at American University, and John C. King, Assistant Professor School of International Service, 2012 ("The Potential for Instability in the PRC: How the Doomsday Theory Misses the Mark," American University, April 19th, Available Online at http://aladinrc.wrlc.org/bitstream/handle/1961/10330/Perkinson_american_0008N_10238display.pdf?sequence=1) Korean war goes nuclearWard 18 ~Alex Ward, staff writer @ Vox covering international security and defense issues, co-host of Vox's "Worldly" podcast, formerly an associate director in the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security where he worked on military issues and US foreign policy, wrote the ~#NatSec2016 newsletter for War on the Rocks, December 26, 2018, "This is exactly how a nuclear war would kill you, Vox, https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/19/17873822/nuclear-war-weapons-bombs-how-kill~~ | 1/8/22 |
NO - CP - NLRBTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VM | Judge: Jared Croitoru Cp text: The National Labor Relations Bureau should, after soliciting notice and comment, find that denying all public employees the right and authorizing permanent replacement of lawful strikers is a violation of the right to strike.That's the aff link to US opinion juris and insufficiency; resolving it solves Solves and competes - Notice and comment rulemaking solves the case and spills over to set a precedent that the courts will upholdZeisler 14 ~Royce Zeisler, J.D. Candidate 2014, Columbia Law School; B.S., B.A. 2012, University of British Columbia, "CHEVRON DEFERENCE AND THE FTC: HOW AND WHY THE FTC SHOULD USE CHEVRON TO IMPROVE ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT", Columbia Business Law Review, 2014, HeinOnline~ | 11/20/21 |
NO - CP - US PICTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VM | Judge: Jared Croitoru Counterplan: At least three-quarters of WTO member nations, excluding the United States, should approve a waiver of TRIPS rules on IP and financial support to allow distribution of vaccines and research for COVID 19 and "neglected diseases" to allow co-production of indigenous treatments and vaccines. Funding and enforcement will be guaranteed.Entirely solves while avoiding politicsSiripurapu 21 Anshu Siripurapu covers economics, energy, and geopolitics, BA in political economy from the University of Southern California. "The Debate Over a Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines: What to Know." Council on Foreign Relations, May 26, 2021, www.cfr.org/in-brief/debate-over-patent-waiver-covid-19-vaccines-what-know. | 11/20/21 |
NO - DA - Debt Ceiling PTXTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VM | Judge: Jared Croitoru Debt ceiling passes now and solves collapse, but floor time is limited and avoiding new fights is keyZhou 10/7 ~Li, politics and policy reporter for Vox, "The debt ceiling fight is far from over" https://www.vox.com/22711441/debt-ceiling-congress-december~~ AND Manchin and Sinema would fight the plan - they hate labor reform – that's a massive floor time suckHarold 21 ~Zack, staf reporter for The Guardian, "US minimum wage activists face their toughest foe: Democrat Joe Manchin" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/22/us-15-dollar-minimum-wage-joe-manchin-west-virginia~~ Debt default is the easiest way to wreck the US economy—ruins the US dollar and financial reputationEgan 9/8 ~Matt Egan is an award-winning reporter at CNN, covering business, the economy and financial markets across CNN's television and digital platforms, "'Financial Armageddon.' What's at stake if the debt limit isn't raised", 9/8/21, https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/business/debt-ceiling-default-explained/index.html~~ ExtinctionJoshua Zoffer 20, Investor at Cove Hill Partners, Fellow at New America, JD Candidate at Yale University Law School, AB from Harvard University, "To End Forever War, Keep the Dollar Globally Dominant", The New Republic, 2/3/2020, https://newrepublic.com/article/156417/end-forever-war-keep-dollar-globally-dominant | 11/20/21 |
NO - DA - EconTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VM | Judge: Jared Croitoru The economy is picking up and will expand late into 2022Bartash 11/18 – Bartash, Jeffrey, 18 November 2021, "Leading indicators point to acceleration in U.S. economy," MarketWatch, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/leading-indicators-point-to-acceleration-in-us-economy-2021-11-18 Jeffry Bartash is a reporter for MarketWatch in Washington. He's been an economic reporter for more than 30 years. ~Harker KB~ Unions crush employment, investment, entrepreneurship – specifically kill auto and railroad industriesHolcombe and Gwartney 10 ~Randall G. Holcombe is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University, and James D. Gwartney is Gus A. Stavros Eminent Scholar at Florida State University. "Unions, Economic Freedom, and Growth" Cato Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter 2010).~ Recessions cause global crises – ensuring continued growth is keyBaird '20 ~Zoe; October 2020; C.E.O. and President of the Markle Foundation, Member of the Aspen Strategy Group and former Trustee at the Council on Foreign Relations, J.D. and A.B. from the University of California at Berkeley; Domestic and International (Dis)order: A Strategic Response, "Equitable Economic Recovery is a National Security Imperative," Ch. 13~ | 11/20/21 |
SO - CP - DonationsTournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: David Dosch CP: France, Germany, Sweden, and Italy should:substantially increase COVID vaccine production to meet the global demand Global donations and increased domestic production solveYamey 21 ~Gavin, Directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. "Rich Countries Should Tithe Their Vaccines" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00470-9~~ Eliminating IPR for vaccines gives China a massive competitive edge on innovation broadly – tanks pharma, undermines pandemic response, and tech leadership – BUT domestic production and distribution solvesOkutsu and Sharma 21 ~Akane, staff writer for Nikkei International, and Kiran, LPC, The College of Law, Guildford, 1997 BA (Hons), Law, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, 1996. "Vaccine Patent Waiver: COVID Stopper or Innovation Killer?" https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-vaccines/Vaccine-patent-waiver-COVID-stopper-or-innovation-killer~~ Biopharma innovation is key to overall competitiveness – US still has a razor thin lead but IP is uniquely keyEzell 20 ~Stephen Ezell, Director of Global Innovation Policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). "Ensuring U.S. Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness." 7/16/20. https://itif.org/publications/2020/07/16/ensuring-us-biopharmaceutical-competitiveness~~ Chinese tech leadership causes nuke warKroenig and Gopalaswamy 18, *Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Deputy Director for Strategy in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. Director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering with a specialization in numerical acoustics from Trinity College, Dublin. (Matthew and Bharath, 11-12-2018, "Will disruptive technology cause nuclear war?", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, https://thebulletin.org/2018/11/will-disruptive-technology-cause-nuclear-war/) | 1/8/22 |
SO - CP - ManufacturingTournament: St Marx | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough HL | Judge: Dillon Johnson The United States federal government should commit to purchasing sufficient doses of COVID-19 vaccines to meet global demand and establish public-private partnerships to expand global vaccine manufacturing capacity.Buying and exporting vaccines solves while avoiding the innovation DA.Gianna Gancia 21, (IT, ID) is a member of Parliament's Development Committee, "Why waiving patents on vaccines is not a good idea," Parliament Magazine, 5-14-2021, https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/why-waiving-patents-on-vaccines-is-not-a-good-idea | 10/17/21 |
SO - CP - Rights PICTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VM | Judge: Jared Croitoru CP Text: The United States of America should recognize the unconditional ability of workers to strike regardless of legal or judicial restrictions.The discourse of rights and freedoms is the substrate for neoimperialism – it produces the conditions for global interventionsFerreri 14 ~Ferreri, Masters Candidate at SUNY Brockport, Education and Human Development Master's Thesis, January, "Challenging American Exceptionalism in the 21st Century"~ 2. Rights discourse shuts down political discussion – it creates a framework of moral absolutism that breaks down democratic participationGlendon 91 ~Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law, emerita, at Harvard University, and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. "RIGHTS TALK: THE IMPOVERISHMENT OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE." http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/two-one/Glendon.pdf~~ | 11/20/21 |
SO - CP - US PICTournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: David Dosch Counterplan: At least three-quarters of WTO member nations, excluding the United States, should approve a waiver of TRIPS rules on IP and financial support to allow distribution of vaccines and research for COVID 19 and "neglected diseases" to allow co-production of indigenous treatments and vaccines. Funding and enforcement will be guaranteed.Entirely solves while avoiding politicsSiripurapu 21 Anshu Siripurapu covers economics, energy, and geopolitics, BA in political economy from the University of Southern California. "The Debate Over a Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines: What to Know." Council on Foreign Relations, May 26, 2021, www.cfr.org/in-brief/debate-over-patent-waiver-covid-19-vaccines-what-know. | 1/8/22 |
SO - DA - Climate PatentsTournament: St Marx | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough HL | Judge: Dillon Johnson Only a strong private sector can solve climate changeGulker 19 ~Max Gulker, 2-11-2019, "How a Strong Private Sector Will Address Climate Change," AIER, https://www.aier.org/article/how-a-strong-private-sector-will-address-climate-change/~~ Climate change is existential and emerging technology is keyEspinosa 20 ~Patricia Espinosa 04-xx-2020Frontier technologies to protect the environment and tackle climate change https://www.itu.int/en/action/environment-and-climate-change/Documents/frontier-technologies-to-protect-the-environment-and-tackle-climate-change.pdf~~ | 10/17/21 |
SO - DA - Drug Prices PTXTournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: David Dosch Drug price reform coming now – fight is ramping up but Biden has the opportunityCancryn 9/9 Cancryn, Adam. Adam Cancryn is a health care reporter for POLITICO Pro, graduate of Washington and Lee University."Biden admin backs direct government drug price negotiations." POLITICO, 9 Sept. 2021, www.politico.com/news/2021/09/09/biden-drug-price-negotiations-510828. Biden's PC is key to wrangle democrats and counter pharma lobbyingJohnson 8/12 Johnson, Jake, writer for Alternet . "Joe Biden throws support behind bold reforms to slash drug prices." Alternet, August 12, 2021, www.alternet.org/2021/08/biden-medicare-negotiate-prices. WTO waiver takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden's talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. Drug price controls massively reduce healthcare costs across the board – even assuming conservative modelsGamba 6/9 Gamba, Tyler. Author at the AJMC. "Adoption of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act May Lead to Billions in Savings." AJMC, 9 June 2021, www.ajmc.com/view/adoption-of-the-lower-drug-costs-now-act-may-lead-to-billions-in-savings. Healthcare costs will cause massive crowd out, collapsing the economy—-historical data confirms rising trendsHowrigon, 16 — Ron Howrigon, M.S. in Economics with a focus on Health Economics from North Carolina State University, President and Founder of Fulcrum Strategies, 18 Years of Experience in Healthcare, 12-30-2016, "Flatlining: How Healthcare Could Kill the U.S. Economy," Greenbranch Publishing, 1st Edition, Accessed via Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-10 Economic decline causes nuclear warTønnesson, 15 — Stein Tønnesson, Leader of East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, "Deterrence, Interdependence and Sino–US Peace" International Area Studies Review, Review Essay, Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 297-311, SAGE Journals, Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-4 | 1/8/22 |
SO - DA - Infrastructure PTXTournament: St Marx | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough VA | Judge: Eric He The Debt Ceiling expansion gives Democrats two months to finalize and pass Biden's spending package – every moment is necessary to resolve intraparty disputesCochrane 10/7 Cochrane, Emily. Emily Cochrane is a correspondent based in Washington. She has covered Congress since late 2018, focusing on the annual debate over government funding and economic legislation, ranging from emergency pandemic relief to infrastructure. "Senate Leaders Agree to Vote on Short-Term Debt Ceiling Increase." N.Y. Times, 7 Oct. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/politics/debt-ceiling-senate.html. Pushing a WTO takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden's talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. Infrastructure package is sufficient, necessary, and the last opportunity to solve climate change – extinctionLeber 10/7 Leber, Rebecca. Rebecca Leber covers climate change for Vox. Before joining Vox, she was an environmental reporter at Mother Jones, where her investigations exposed government corruption and fossil fuel industry disinformation. She has worked as a staff writer at Grist, The New Republic, and ThinkProgress. A dozen more outlets have published her work over her decade as a climate journalist. "A last chance for US climate action: Democrats' Build Back Better and infrastructure bills." Vox, 7 Oct. 2021, www.vox.com/22685920/democrats-infrastructure-build-back-better-climate-change. | 10/16/21 |
SO - DA - Innovation ShortTournament: St Marx | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough VA | Judge: Eric He The biopharmaceutical industry is uniquely reliant on IP protections – undermining them would kill innovation by making an already expensive process completely unfeasible.Kristina M. Lybecker, PhD, 17 ~PhD Economics, Associate Professor of Economics @ Colorado College~, "Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Biopharmaceutical Industry: How Canada Measures Up," Fraser Institute, January 2017, https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/intellectual-property-rights-protection-and-the20biopharmaceutical-industry.pdf C.VC Pharmaceutical innovation is accelerating now – new medicines are substantially better than existing treatments.Wills, MBA, and Lipkus, PhD, 20 – Todd J. Wills ~Managing Director @ Chemical Abstracts Service, MBA from THE Ohio State University~ and Alan H. Lipkus ~Senior Data Analyst @ Chemical Abstracts Service, PhD Physical Chemistry from the University of Rochester~, "Structural Approach to Assessing the Innovativeness of New Drugs Finds Accelerating Rate of Innovation," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 11, 2020, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00319 C.VC | 10/16/21 |
SO - DA - Innovation v1Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Tom Evnen Pharmaceutical innovation is key to protecting against future pandemics, bioterrorism, and antibiotic resistance.Marjanovic and Fejiao '20 Marjanovic, Sonja, and Carolina Feijao. Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitive biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement." (2020). ~Quality Control~ The biopharmaceutical industry is uniquely reliant on IP protections – undermining them would kill innovation by making an already expensive process completely unfeasible.Kristina M. Lybecker, PhD, 17 ~PhD Economics, Associate Professor of Economics @ Colorado College~, "Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Biopharmaceutical Industry: How Canada Measures Up," Fraser Institute, January 2017, https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/intellectual-property-rights-protection-and-the20biopharmaceutical-industry.pdf C.VC Pharmaceutical innovation is accelerating now – new medicines are substantially better than existing treatments.Wills, MBA, and Lipkus, PhD, 20 – Todd J. Wills ~Managing Director @ Chemical Abstracts Service, MBA from THE Ohio State University~ and Alan H. Lipkus ~Senior Data Analyst @ Chemical Abstracts Service, PhD Physical Chemistry from the University of Rochester~, "Structural Approach to Assessing the Innovativeness of New Drugs Finds Accelerating Rate of Innovation," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 11, 2020, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00319 C.VC | 9/18/21 |
SO - DA - Innovation v2Tournament: St Marx | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough HL | Judge: Dillon Johnson Pharmaceutical innovation is accelerating now – new medicines are substantially better than existing treatments.Wills, MBA, and Lipkus, PhD, 20 – Todd J. Wills ~Managing Director @ Chemical Abstracts Service, MBA from THE Ohio State University~ and Alan H. Lipkus ~Senior Data Analyst @ Chemical Abstracts Service, PhD Physical Chemistry from the University of Rochester~, "Structural Approach to Assessing the Innovativeness of New Drugs Finds Accelerating Rate of Innovation," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 11, 2020, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00319 C.VC The biopharmaceutical industry is uniquely reliant on IP protections – undermining them would kill innovation by making an already expensive process completely unfeasible.Kristina M. Lybecker, PhD, 17 ~PhD Economics, Associate Professor of Economics @ Colorado College~, "Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Biopharmaceutical Industry: How Canada Measures Up," Fraser Institute, January 2017, https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/intellectual-property-rights-protection-and-the20biopharmaceutical-industry.pdf C.VC Pharmaceutical innovation is key to protecting against future pandemics, bioterrorism, and antibiotic resistance.Marjanovic and Fejiao '20 Marjanovic, Sonja, and Carolina Feijao. Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitive biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement." (2020). ~Quality Control~ Bioterrorism and future pandemics cause extinction.Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, CBRN Expert @ British Army, 20 ~Director @ DBG Defense, Consultant on CBRN and Biosecurity~, "Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed," Combatting Terrorism Center Sentinel, November/December 2020, Volume 13, Issue 11, https://ctc.usma.edu/biosecurity-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-the-urgent-action-needed/ C.VC | 10/17/21 |
SO - DA - Innovation vSupershortTournament: St Marx | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dulles VN | Judge: Jonathan Hsu Eliminating evergreening ends the pharmaceutical industry – incremental developments are key to global breakthroughs on emerging pathogensMadigan and O'Connor 19 ~Kevin Madigan joined CPIP in January of 2016. As Deputy Director, Kevin works closely with CPIP scholars in their research and promotion of comprehensive intellectual property law and policy. Before joining CPIP, Kevin worked as an intellectual property Research Associate at Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett and Dunner and also interned at the Recording Industry Association of America. Sean O'Connor, noted innovation law scholar, is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2) at George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School. ""No Combination Drug Patents Act" Stalls, but Threats to Innovation Remain." https://cip2.gmu.edu/2019/06/27/no-combination-drug-patents-act-stalls-but-threats-to-innovation-remain/~~ It tips the entire industry into insolvencyGloberman and Lybecker 14 ~Steven Globerman is Resident Scholar and Addington Chair in Measurement at the Fraser Institute as well as Professor Emeritus at Western Washington University. Kristina M.L. Acri, née Lybecker – Chair of the Department of Economics and Business, Colorado College. "The Benefits of Incremental Innovation FOCUS ON THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY The Benefits of Incremental Innovation FOCUS ON THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY." https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/benefits-of-incremental-innovation.pdf~~ | 10/16/21 |
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