Andrew Urevig Repeats as Minnesota State Champion

Travis Chen wins the 2014 VBT

Congratulations to Palo Alto’s Travis Chen for defeating La Jolla’s Ram Prasad to win the 2014 Victory Briefs Tournament! The decision was a 3–0 for the negative.

Partial Triple Octafinals

What Happened to Environmentalism Impacts?

If arguments being made by affirmative LD debaters are any indication of environmentalism’s momentum in a post-9/11, post-recession world, we should be very worried for the state of the planet. Said debaters have proven that if impacts aren’t about…

Faculty Focus: Charlotte Lawrence

Faculty Focus: Charlotte Lawrence

Faculty Focus: Christian Tarsney, Curriculum Director

Faculty Focus: Christian Tarsney, Curriculum…

The Recent Plague of Solvency Advocate Theory

At VBT, the argument of the moment seemed to be “solvency advocate” theory. This article will attempt to shed light on why that was the case, what’s problematic about that “solution” to narrowing the Jan-Feb topic, and what we might do instead.

Topicality, Implementation, and What We Ought to Prioritize

I hear that many affirmatives on this topic defend the implementation of a particular policy or set of policies in developing countries. The classic framing of this issue has been in terms of an Aims vs. Implementation…

Population Ethics for the Development Topic

Population ethics is the main branch of moral philosophy that addresses questions concerning future generations. The literature in population ethics is important for the Jan/Feb 2014 topic, because some of the most important impacts of environmental…

VBI Family: Interview with David Wolfish

David Wolfish is a second year student at Harvard Business School. He graduated from the…

VBI 2014 Initial Hires

VBI 2014 Initial Hires:

Travis Chen

Ryan Fink

Ed Hendrickson

Jim Huang

Shania Hunt