Episodes
Brent Orrell of the American Enterprise Institute and podcaster and author Tom Woods debate the resolution, "Government-imposed restrictions during the Covid pandemic were prudent and essential."
Published 04/26/24
Joe Nocera of The Free Press and Gene Epstein of The Soho Forum debate the resolution, "Capitalism has been a…
Published 04/05/24
Published 04/05/24
Reporter and podcaster Eli Lake and author Jeremy Hammond debated the resolution, "The root cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the Palestinians' rejection of Israel's right to exist."
Published 03/01/24
M. Anthony (Tony) Mills of the American Enterprise Institute and Terence Kealey of The Cato Institute debate the resolution, "Government must…
Published 02/02/24
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.
Published 12/22/23
Susan Schneider of the Center for the Future Mind and AI entrepreneur Jobst Landgrebe debate the resolution, "Artificial intelligence poses a threat to the survival of humanity that must be actively addressed by government."
Published 11/17/23
The Manhattan Institute's Mark Mills and InOrbis CEO Rosario Fortugno debate the resolution, "Between now and 2035, electric vehicles in...
Published 10/20/23
Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute Yaron Brook and George Mason University professor Bryan Caplan debate the resolution, "Anarcho-capitalism would definitely be a complete disaster for humanity."
Published 09/22/23
Education activist Corey DeAngelis and attorney Stephan Kinsella debate the resolution, "Today's school-choice movement in the U.S. is worthy of support by libertarians."
Published 08/25/23
The Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh and attorney Francis Menton debate the resolution, "The U.S. should have free immigration except for those who pose a...
Published 07/28/23
Libertarian economists David Friedman and Gene Epstein debate the resolution,"The right way to persuade people of libertarianism is by showing them that its outcomes are superior, without any resort to the flawed non-aggression principle."
Published 06/30/23
Law professor Andrew Koppelman and Soho Forum director Gene Epstein debate whether Libertarianism has been thoroughly corrupted by greed.
Published 05/26/23
Two historians go head-to-head on whether the controversial New York Times project has any value. Woody Holton vs. Phil Magness
Published 04/21/23
The Manhattan Institute's Jason L. Riley and New York University (NYU) professor Nikhil Pal Singh debate whether black Americans should move away from progressivism.
Published 04/01/23
On February 21, law professor F.H. Buckley and Libertarian Party activist Jonathan Casey debated the resolution, "The breakup of the United States into different regions is a workable option likely to bring a marked improvement in human affairs."
Published 02/24/23
On January 26, economists Lawrence H. White and Frederic Mishkin debated the resolution, "Replacing the Federal Reserve with free market...
Published 01/27/23
Rich Lowry and Alex Nowrasteh debate the resolution, "Nationalism is an important value that Americans should support."
Published 12/16/22
On November 15, Jay Bhattacharya and Sten Vermund debated the resolution, "Focused protection, as set forth in the Great Barrington...
Published 11/18/22
"Free market ideology is largely responsible for the dismal performance of the U.S. economy over the past few decades." That...
Published 10/24/22
As tensions rise in Eastern Europe, Ward Wilson argued in an Oxford-style debate for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Arguing for the negative was Peter Huessy.
Published 09/23/22
Does the world need to rapidly convert to using renewable energy to save the planet from global warming? That was...
Published 09/09/22
Keith Weiner defends gold against bitcoin podcaster Pierre Rochard. The debate resolution was "Gold will remain an important form of money in the twenty-first century."
Published 08/12/22
Should the U.S. give full military and political support to Ukraine in its war with Russia, short of sending troops? At a live debate in New Hampshire, Cathy Young said yes and Scott Horton said no.
Published 07/08/22
Adriane Fugh-Berman defended the proposition, "America's overdose crisis is the result of doctors over‐treating patients with opioids." Jeffrey Singer argued that the rate of overdoses and the rate at which doctors prescribe opioids aren't correlated.
Published 06/10/22