Motions

Grand Final

  • This house regrets the rightward political shift in Latin America since 2023.

    • ESL Final

  • This house regrets the recent rise of public criticism of the pill.

    • Open Semifinals

  • This house regrets the recent rise of public criticism of the pill.

    • ESL Semifinals

  • This house, as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, would pursue an arms control agreement with South Korea and the United States to limit North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programs, rather than continue rapidly expanding them.

    • Open Quarterfinals

  • This house, as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, would pursue an arms control agreement with South Korea and the United States to limit North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programs, rather than continue rapidly expanding them.

    • Round 5

  • This house predicts that, in high-income liberal democracies, adolescent members of Generation Alpha will have worse, rather than better, overall psychological well-being than adolescent members of Generation Z will have had.

    • Round 4

  • This house believes that developing countries at high risk of public debt distress (e.g., Ghana, Kenya, Zambia) should gradually impose significant concentration limits on domestic banks’ debt exposure to domestic public borrowers.

    • Round 3

  • This house regrets pillarization in the Netherlands.

    • Round 2

  • This house believes that a person who has committed a particular kind of wrong, and who refuses to hold themselves accountable for it, lacks the moral standing to blame another person for committing the same kind of wrong against a third party.

    • Round 1

  • This house believes that it is in the interests of major commercial art galleries to refuse to sell artworks substantially produced using generative artificial intelligence.