Motions

ESL Finals

  • 1
    In highly multiethnic states, THP the use of devolved governments as opposed to centralized governments.

    • Grand Final

  • 1
    THBT the Biden administration should declare and actively pursue a “feminist foreign policy”.

    • Semifinals

  • 1
    TH, as an industrializing developing country, would impose capital controls and trade tariffs on its economy.

    • Quarterfinals

  • 1
    THP a world in which religions do not emphasize self-deprivation (e.g. ritual fasting, asceticism, voluntary poverty)

    • Round 5

  • 1
    THR the narrative that forgiveness is a virtue.

    • Round 4

  • 1
    TH, as a major tech company, would make all of their software open source.

    • Round 3

  • 1
    THBT the United States should criminalize the propagation of conspiracy theories whose adherents have actively threatened or caused harm to public figures (e.g., QAnon, 9/11 trutherism)

    • Round 2

  • 1
    TH, as a fiction writer during the COVID 19 pandemic, would predominantly write stories about the present crisis, rather than stories about the past, future, or alternate timelines.

    • Round 1

  • 1
    THBT popular media should portray climate change optimistically, emphasizing progress which has been made over alarming predictions.