Bennett Eckert Wins NDCA Nationals and the Dukes and Bailey Cup

Orlando, FL — Congratulations to Greenhill’s Bennett Eckert for winning the 2016 NDCA National Tournament! In the Final round Bennett defeated Harvard-Westlake’s Cameron Cohen on a 3–0 decision (Alston, Mahoney, Simon)…

Bennett Eckert Wins the 2016 NSDA National Tournament

Congratulations to Bennett Eckert of The Greenhill School (TX) and his coach Aaron Timmons for winning the 2016 NSDA National Tournament in LD. Bennett defeated Millard North’s Priya Kukreja on an 8–7 decision. Congratulations to both…

Philosophy and Oppression by Shrey Desai

Shrey Desai debated for four years at Saratoga High School (CA). Shrey qualified to the California State Tournament, championed Western Championships and SCU (twice), and won speaker awards at the College Prep, Stanford, and Berkeley Invitationals. He would…

Moral Hedging by Noah Simon and Jack Wareham

This article consists of two parts. The first section, written by Noah Simon, is a criticism of Moral Hedging and an endorsement of Moral Confidence. The second section, written by Jack Wareham, is an endorsement of Moral Hedging and a criticism of…

Marshall’s Curious Convictions on Camp Curricula

This is a guest post by VBI Curriculum Director Marshall Thompson about an idea for our curriculum. Please fill out the poll at the end, or write a comment, to let us know what you think.

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Final LD Topic List for 2016–2017 Released

Salt Lake City, UT — The LD wording committee has released the final list of topics…

VBI LA Session II Topic Update

We are pleased to announce that students will be debating the September/October topics in both…

Harvard-Westlake’s Nick Steele Wins TOC

Congratulations to Harvard-Westlake’s Nick Steele and Clements High School’s Felix Tan for advancing to the final round of the Tournament of Champions! Nick won on a 2–1 decision (Castillo, M. Overing, *Kymn) after walking over teammate Cameron Cohen in…