More authors!

We're excited to announce that Matthew Silver and Cari Peacock, both nationally ranked LD debaters from this past national championship, have joined the White Book team as contributing authors!

Together, they bring 8 years of combined forensics experience and 4 national championship appearances in Lincoln Douglas debate. Most recently, Cari was 8th place LD debater at the 2009 NCFCA national championship wile Matthew was 14th place LD debater and 13th place LD speaker.

To read their complete bios, view our updated authors page.

Cooperation and Free Markets

While researching the relationship between this resolution and economics, I stumbled across a very well written article by Jeff Tucker at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. His premise is about how free markets engender cooperation. It's very interesting, since most people automatically assume that competition is at the heart of free market economics. Definitely a worthwhile twist to check into.

"Cooperation: How a Free Market Benefits Everyone"

If you're having trouble grasping the concepts that Tucker explains here (comparative advantage, division of labor, etc.), check out Leonard Read's brilliant essay, "I, Pencil." It advocates the exact same ideas that Tucker advocates, but from a rather interesting perspective. ;)

Sesame Street on Cooperation

In researching the new resolution yesterday, I googled "cooperation," and found this on page 5 of the results. If only there was a Sesame Street skit for competition...then we'd have both sides of the debate. ;)

New Website Look

Yesterday, the finishing touches to the our website were completed. The new site now looks more sleek and professional compared to the basic blue outline that we had for the old one.

Check it out!

White Book Blog Up and Running

To keep you updated on the White Book as we work on it this summer, we've started this blog. There's going to be some exciting developments in the next few days, including a rejuvinated web site look for the old White Book site. Right now, it has a pretty basic layout, but that should change in a few days.

So what does everyone think of the new resolution? Personally, I (Jason) was pulling for B, but we've been assigned a different resolution for this upcoming season, so the task now is to figure out how to make it work. We'll definitely have some thoughts for you on that when we publish the White Book! :)