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Reason presents a libertarian-themed debate series recorded monthly before a live audience in New York City. Moderated by former Barron's Economics Editor Gene Epstein, the Soho Forum features Nobel prize winners, radical thinkers, and other public intellectuals facing off over the future of abortion, bitcoin, electric vehicles, government debt, illegal drugs, robotics, sex work, and other controversial topics.
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A debate between Melanie Thompson and Kaytlin Bailey.
1Glenn Greenwald debates Anna Gorisch on Trump's deportation policies.
Yale’s Jacob Hacker and Sesame’s David Goldhill debate a government-run health insurance plan.
The American Enterprise Institute's Hal Brands and investigative journalist Gareth Porter debate the necessity of the Cold War.
Is it consistently libertarian to support government restrictions on immigration?
Eric Brakey and Andrew Heaton debate whether libertarians should prioritize building local liberty-focused societies like the Free State Project or focus on reforming the federal government.
City University of New York professor Peter Beinart and AEI's Michael Rubin debate Israel and Palestine.
Antiwar.com's Scott Horton and The Free Press's Eli Lake debate U.S. foreign policy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Frontier magazine's Peter Gietl and Salvadoran journalist Ricardo Avelar debate the merits of Nayib Bukele's criminal justice policies.
Glenn Greenwald and Elizabeth Price Foley debate Trump v. United States and its implications for presidential powers.
Two Argentine pundits debate the success of Javier Milei.
David Leonhardt and John Early debate stagnation, inequality, and how people feel about the economy.
Two former Republican staffers, David Stockman and Stephen Moore, debate the state of the party.
Famed economist Arthur Laffer debates Libertarian Party presidential candidate Chase Oliver.
Author Matt Ridley debates virologist Stephen Goldstein on the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
Dennis Pratt and Gene Epstein debate the efficacy of ethical and consequentialist arguments for libertarianism.
Economists Gene Epstein and David Friedman debate the merits of the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald takes on famed lawyer and author Alan Dershowitz.
In lieu of the planned debate with Brent Orrell, Gene Epstein and Tom Woods discuss the prudence of COVID-related restrictions.
Columnist Joe Nocera debates Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.
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very impressed with Kerri! what Walter didn't get was the fact that the hitman analogy before babies are born is same as parents changing their mind about having a baby - that is a hit job. when you have sex you voluntarily take on the responsibility of protecting the baby til emancipation.
I did the research and made a choice and built my house in one of the best public school systems in Nebraska which is also recognized as a top public school system in the nation.
I really appreciate that the Soho Forum is still putting out debates and that Reason has made them available as podcasts. Catching up on some of the more recent debates I’ve missed!
SPOILER .... Update: Voting on this debate ended on April 28, 2020. David Henderson won by convincing 12.7 percent of the audience to change their minds. Justin Wolfers lost support by 4.76 percent.
Lively debate. One of my favorites.
this guy's argument sounds like someone trying to say, "we should make suicide prevention about the people around the person commiting suicide because those are the people who suffer"...
Then would you consider "employee owned" businesses worker co-ops?