Topic Knowledge
This statement is the high school policy debate resolution for the 2023-2024 season.
What is Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase fiscal redistribution in the United States by adopting a federal jobs guarantee, expanding Social Security, and/or providing a basic income?
This is the oldest format of organized debate in the United States.
What is policy or cross-examination debate?
The abbreviation "PC" refers to this concept in the politics disad.
What is political capital?
This part of the kritik refers to the neg's proposed solution to the harms of the status quo.
The ability of the negative to drop advocacies in the block or 2NR is called this.
What is conditionality?
"T-Taxes" requires that the affirmative take these two actions.
What are taxes and transfers?
This man was the founder and original director of the Bronx Science speech & debate team.
Who is Richard B. Sodikow?
This concept refers to the idea that when a president successfully pushes for a popular policy, it makes other agenda items easier to pass in the future.
What is winners win?
This German author was the basis for the capitalism kritik.
Who is Karl Marx?
This theory violation occurs when a permutation adds on components that are part of neither the cp nor the plan.
What is intrinsicness?
This class of benefits administered by the Social Security Administration is abbreviated OASDI.
What are old-age, survivor, and disability benefits?
In 2000, this program was started to increase minority participation in college debate by challenging the activity's stylistic norms.
What is the Louisville Project?
This negotiation in the Middle East was disrupted by the October 7th attacks, making the disad unviable.
What is Saudi-Israel normalization?
This is the philosophical study of being.
What is ontology?
This kind of permutation argues that the normal means implementation of the aff plan could be identical to the cp/alt.
What is perm do the cp or perm do the alt?
This economic concept refers to a phenomenon where there is very little or no growth in a given economy.
What is secular stagnation?
This debate coach invented the kritik and was also kicked out of the community and fired from his job after mooning an entire room of debaters after he was unsatisfied with a decision.
Who is Bill Shanahan?
In December 2023, GOP senators made the vote on a Ukraine aid package contingent on concessions on this issue.
What is US-Mexico border security?
This French anthropologist and philosopher has theorized extensively on the concepts of waste, excess, and solar energy.
Who is Georges Bataille?
This theory standard argues that the affirmative has an inherent advantage in the debate, so the negative should therefore be compensated with a larger variety of options for challenging them.
What is neg flex?
This economic theory purports that the government can and should do as much deficit spending as it needs to, since it can always be made up by printing more money.
What is modern monetary theory (MMT)?
This defunct style of debate from the '70s involved the negative reading multiple topical plans, then reading disadvantages to those plans, in order to prove there were more negative examples of the resolution than positive ones.
What is hypo-testing (or counter-warrants)?
This crucial piece of legislation was up for Renewal in September 2023, but did not get extended, throwing agricultural programs into peril. (+100 bonus points for the original year of the bill up for renewal)
The 2018 Farm Bill.
This triad of concepts from Jacques Lacan is analogous to Sigmund Freud's ego, superego, and id. (+100 bonus points if it's in the right order)
What is the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real?
This type of cp competition takes into account everything the aff has committed to in the text of their cards, things said in cx, and while describing the plan generally.
What is positional competition?