Incubate teaches the power & practice of debate

What we do

No-Cost Tournaments

Our flagship program. We host regional no-cost tournaments where students debate timely and timeless topics and are evaluated by our citizen judges. Find out more here

Incubate in the Classroom

Incubate in the Classroom is where teachers turn their classrooms into civil, educational spaces for debate and the clash of ideas.

Testimonials

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Stanford University

"Incubate Debate is restoring high school debate to focus on honing skills in rhetoric, logic, tolerance of ideas, and public speaking."

Bill de Blasio

109th Mayor, New York City

"[Incubate's] 'make debate great again' says to me, make communication and discourse and dialogue great again. Make understanding great again. Make civility great again."

Bari Weiss

Founder — The Free Press

"What James Fishback is building [at Incubate Debate] gives me hope."

Dr. Peter Boghossian

University of Austin

"Incubate Debate is educating the future leaders of our country and that should fill you with tremendous optimism."

Greg Lukianoff

President and CEO of FIRE

"Incubate Debate is an amazing program. You should all join it."