Was out of it before the later developments presented this article (was maybe out of it when the author of the article was a baby :/) but most of it seems true, though I don't think I ever had any illusions about it being in any way a useful investigation of the topics. " High school debate today is basically an intellectual game, not an exercise in truth-seeking. " Was kind of the point. If I learned any "truths" it was about myself and the other weirdos on my team as people, not, Russian foreign relations or education or whatever the other topics were but that seems pretty valuable as well.