The Victory Briefs Institute is the largest Lincoln-Douglas Debate Camp in the country. For more than a decade we have been helping students reach their full potential at every level of competition, including many winners of the NFL National Championship, the Tournament of Champions, the National Debate Coaches Association Championship, and the CFL National Championship, along with countless invitationals at both ...

Public Forum is the said to be the largest and fastest growing debate event. Yet, there are few good resources that exist to provide coaches and students with a strong introduction to not just the structure and rules of the activity, but also to the strategy of the event. This book is an effort at doing just that. However, while the overall thrust of the text is introductory, many readers will find that the conten...

Our original Lincoln-Douglas textbook was written by the founder of Victory Briefs, Victor Jih. All of these years later, it's still a great way for a new debater to familiarize themselves with the basics of LD debate.  This textbook is directed and intended to be used by many different audiences. The new student can use this book to learn the basics of Lincoln Douglas debate. The experienced student can read the ...

This Textbook covers all the core concepts and skills needed to give a comprehensive introduction to Lincoln-Douglas debate. While this textbook cannot replace the invaluable instruction of a coach, it can greatly enhance any Lincoln-Douglas debate curriculum for those with established debate programs and serve as a comprehensive introduction to Lincoln-Douglas debate for those without established debate programs....

We are particularly excited about this textbook because no other resource like this exists. It is possible to find many policy debate textbooks available online. However, those textbooks are written for complete novices to policy debate. Our textbook is written by authors who started in Lincoln-Douglas debate before transitioning on competitive debate careers in policy debate. Our authors experienced great success...

This textbook covers all the core concepts and skills needed to give a comprehensive introduction to Public Forum debate. While this textbook cannot replace the invaluable instruction of a coach, it can greatly enhance any Public Forum debate curriculum for those with established debate programs and serve as a comprehensive introduction to Public Forum debate for those without established debate programs. This tex...

This is a textbook designed to help debaters who understand the basics of debate but want to begin the next step in their varsity debate journey. These writings represent the work of some of the most successful Lincoln Douglas coaches and debaters from our generation. Each of the authors has an outstanding track record as a camp instructor and distinguished debate resume, which will be detailed below. This is time...

Some works of philosophy and political theory have developed into foundational texts for our modern moral and political sensibilities. In Lincoln-Douglas debate, we have adopted a core argument set that is largely derived from these texts. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill are giants of Enlightenment Era philosophy. It is not surprising that you see their major arguments applied to jus...

Not only does increasing your knowledge of philosophy make the case-writing and researching qualitatively easier; it offers you a foundation for and an insight into arguments you might not otherwise explore, opposing positions you might not otherwise expect, and a grasp of the resolution you might not otherwise find. Philosophy is a wide world of thought and discussion, ranging from metaphysics to epistemology to ...