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Gene Epstein | 7.5.2024 12:00 PM The Soho Forum Debates Glenn Greenwald and Alan Dershowitz Debate Bombing Iran The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald takes on famed lawyer and author Alan Dershowitz. Gene Epstein | 5.24.2024 1:00 PM Coronavirus A Soho Forum Discussion of COVID with Tom Woods In lieu of the planned debate with Brent Orrell, Gene Epstein and Tom Woods discuss the prudence of COVID-related restrictions. Gene Epstein | 4.26.2024 12:10 PM Capitalism Did Capitalism Fail During the Pandemic? Columnist Joe Nocera debates Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein. Gene Epstein | 4.5.2024 4:35 PM Israel What's the Root Cause of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? Eli Lake of The Free Press debates author Jeremy Hammond at The Soho Forum. Gene Epstein | 3.1.2024 3:30 PM Government Spending Must Government Fund Science? AEI's Tony Mills and British biochemist Terence Kealey debate whether science needs government funding. Gene Epstein | 2.2.2024 2:15 PM Coronavirus Social Media Censorship and The First Amendment Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship. Gene Epstein | 12.22.2023 12:10 PM Artificial Intelligence Will AI Destroy Humanity? Susan Schneider and Jobst Landgrebe debate the dangers of AI. Gene Epstein | 11.17.2023 5:15 PM Electric cars Will Electric Cars Disappoint Environmentalists? Mark Mills and Rosario Fortugno debate the future of electric vehicles. Gene Epstein | 10.20.2023 1:45 PM Anarchism Would Anarcho-Capitalism Be a Disaster? Yaron Brook and Bryan Caplan debate the merits of anarcho-capitalism. Gene Epstein | 9.22.2023 11:55 AM School Choice Should Libertarians Support School Choice? Corey DeAngelis of the American Federation for Children debates libertarian author Stephan Kinsella. Gene Epstein | 8.25.2023 11:30 AM Immigration Should the U.S. Have Free Immigration? 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Robby Soave | 2.24.2022 11:20 AM Vaccine mandates Two Libertarians Debate Vaccine Mandates George Mason University Law Professor Ilya Somin debates Libertarian Party activist Angela McArdle Gene Epstein | 12.18.2021 11:00 AM Intellectual Property Abolish Intellectual Property Rights? Patent lawyer Stephan Kinsella debates Law Professor Richard Epstein Gene Epstein | 11.24.2021 1:00 PM More Search for: Reason.com Listen & Subscribe Podcast:The Soho Forum Debates Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS
Sex Work Should Paying for Sex Be a Crime? A debate between Melanie Thompson and Kaytlin Bailey. Gene Epstein | 9.16.2025 2:00 PM
Immigration Are Trump's Deportations Constitutional? Glenn Greenwald debates Anna Gorisch on Trump's deportation policies. Gene Epstein | 8.12.2025 6:00 PM
The Soho Forum Debates Should the U.S. Have a Public Health Insurance Plan? Yale’s Jacob Hacker and Sesame’s David Goldhill debate a government-run health insurance plan. Gene Epstein | 7.18.2025 3:15 PM
Cold War Was the Cold War a Deception? The American Enterprise Institute's Hal Brands and investigative journalist Gareth Porter debate the necessity of the Cold War. Gene Epstein | 6.19.2025 6:00 PM
The Soho Forum Debates Dave Smith and Alex Nowrasteh Debate Immigration Is it consistently libertarian to support government restrictions on immigration? Gene Epstein | 5.21.2025 6:30 PM
Libertarianism Should Libertarians Prioritize Their Own Communities? 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. Gene Epstein | 5.2.2025 5:30 PM
Israel Are the Palestinians Systematically Oppressed? City University of New York professor Peter Beinart and AEI's Michael Rubin debate Israel and Palestine. Gene Epstein | 3.22.2025 11:00 AM
War Did the U.S. Provoke Russia's Invasion of Ukraine? Antiwar.com's Scott Horton and The Free Press's Eli Lake debate U.S. foreign policy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Gene Epstein | 2.8.2025 4:00 PM
El Salvador El Salvador's Bukele: Authoritarian or Model President? Frontier magazine's Peter Gietl and Salvadoran journalist Ricardo Avelar debate the merits of Nayib Bukele's criminal justice policies. Gene Epstein | 1.27.2025 5:00 PM
Supreme Court Was the Supreme Court Wrong About Presidential Immunity? Glenn Greenwald and Elizabeth Price Foley debate Trump v. United States and its implications for presidential powers. Gene Epstein | 12.13.2024 3:20 PM
The Soho Forum Debates Is Javier Milei Actually Improving Argentina? Two Argentine pundits debate the success of Javier Milei. Gene Epstein | 11.22.2024 11:15 AM
Economy Are American Living Standards In Decline? David Leonhardt and John Early debate stagnation, inequality, and how people feel about the economy. Gene Epstein | 10.25.2024 9:00 AM
Election 2024 Are the Two Parties Any Different? Two former Republican staffers, David Stockman and Stephen Moore, debate the state of the party. Gene Epstein | 9.20.2024 9:45 AM
Election 2024 Is Donald Trump the Best Choice? Famed economist Arthur Laffer debates Libertarian Party presidential candidate Chase Oliver. Gene Epstein | 8.16.2024 10:30 AM
The Soho Forum Debates Did COVID Come From a Lab? Author Matt Ridley debates virologist Stephen Goldstein on the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Gene Epstein | 7.19.2024 9:00 AM
Non-Aggression Principle What's the Best Argument for Libertarianism? Dennis Pratt and Gene Epstein debate the efficacy of ethical and consequentialist arguments for libertarianism. Gene Epstein | 7.7.2024 11:00 AM
Economics Debate: Austrian vs. Chicago Economics Economists Gene Epstein and David Friedman debate the merits of the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics. Gene Epstein | 7.5.2024 12:00 PM
The Soho Forum Debates Glenn Greenwald and Alan Dershowitz Debate Bombing Iran The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald takes on famed lawyer and author Alan Dershowitz. Gene Epstein | 5.24.2024 1:00 PM
Coronavirus A Soho Forum Discussion of COVID with Tom Woods In lieu of the planned debate with Brent Orrell, Gene Epstein and Tom Woods discuss the prudence of COVID-related restrictions. Gene Epstein | 4.26.2024 12:10 PM
Capitalism Did Capitalism Fail During the Pandemic? Columnist Joe Nocera debates Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein. Gene Epstein | 4.5.2024 4:35 PM
Israel What's the Root Cause of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? Eli Lake of The Free Press debates author Jeremy Hammond at The Soho Forum. Gene Epstein | 3.1.2024 3:30 PM
Government Spending Must Government Fund Science? AEI's Tony Mills and British biochemist Terence Kealey debate whether science needs government funding. Gene Epstein | 2.2.2024 2:15 PM
Coronavirus Social Media Censorship and The First Amendment Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship. Gene Epstein | 12.22.2023 12:10 PM
Artificial Intelligence Will AI Destroy Humanity? Susan Schneider and Jobst Landgrebe debate the dangers of AI. Gene Epstein | 11.17.2023 5:15 PM
Electric cars Will Electric Cars Disappoint Environmentalists? Mark Mills and Rosario Fortugno debate the future of electric vehicles. Gene Epstein | 10.20.2023 1:45 PM
Anarchism Would Anarcho-Capitalism Be a Disaster? Yaron Brook and Bryan Caplan debate the merits of anarcho-capitalism. Gene Epstein | 9.22.2023 11:55 AM
School Choice Should Libertarians Support School Choice? Corey DeAngelis of the American Federation for Children debates libertarian author Stephan Kinsella. Gene Epstein | 8.25.2023 11:30 AM
Immigration Should the U.S. Have Free Immigration? The Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh and attorney Francis Menton debate immigration policy. Gene Epstein | 7.28.2023 9:00 AM
Libertarianism Is the Nonaggression Principle Incoherent? Economists David Friedman and Gene Epstein debate how best to persuade people toward libertarianism. Gene Epstein | 6.30.2023 5:00 PM
Libertarianism Are Libertarians Greedy and Delusional? Law professor Andrew Koppelman and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate whether libertarianism has been corrupted. Gene Epstein | 5.26.2023 11:45 AM
1619 Project Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us? Two historians go head-to-head on whether the controversial New York Times project has any value. Gene Epstein | 4.21.2023 2:00 PM
Progressives Black America and Progressivism: Jason L. Riley vs. Nikhil Pal Singh The Manhattan Institute senior fellow and the NYU historian debate whether black Americans should move away from progressivism. Gene Epstein | 3.31.2023 9:15 PM
Secession National Divorce? Is breaking up the U.S. a good idea? Law professor F.H. Buckley and Libertarian Party activist Jonathan Casey debate. Gene Epstein | 2.24.2023 10:10 AM
Federal Reserve Should We Abolish the Federal Reserve? Economists Lawrence H. White and Frederic Mishkin debate whether the Federal Reserve should be replaced with free market institutions. Gene Epstein | 1.27.2023 3:20 PM
Nationalism Should Americans Value Nationalism? National Review's Rich Lowry debates the Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh. Gene Epstein | 12.16.2022 3:50 PM
Lockdowns Never Lock Down Again? Jay Bhattacharya vs. Sten Vermund Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates Yale's Sten Vermund on COVID-19 lockdowns, focused protection, and the Great Barrington Declaration. Gene Epstein | 11.18.2022 1:25 PM
Free Markets Is Free Market Ideology Hurting the Economy? A livestreamed debate between Binyamin Appelbaum and Gene Epstein Nick Gillespie | 10.24.2022 9:55 AM
Nuclear Weapons Is It Time to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons? Author Ward Wilson advocates eliminating nuclear weapons. Defense consultant Peter Huessy says that's unrealistic. Gene Epstein | 9.23.2022 10:40 AM
Climate Change Does Climate Science Really Compel Us Toward Urgent Action? Climate scientist Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M University defends urgent action on climate against scientist and author Steven Koonin. Gene Epstein | 9.9.2022 2:54 PM
Bitcoin Will Bitcoin Demonetize Gold? Monetary Metals CEO Keith Weiner defends the future of gold against bitcoin podcaster Pierre Rochard. Gene Epstein | 8.12.2022 12:35 PM
Ukraine Should the U.S. Be Arming Ukraine Against Russia? Scott Horton vs. Cathy Young in a live debate at PorcFest, in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Gene Epstein | 7.8.2022 9:49 AM
Opioids Did Prescription Opioids Cause The Overdose Epidemic? Doctors Adriane Fugh-Berman and Jeffrey Singer debate the harms of prescription opioids Gene Epstein | 6.10.2022 1:30 PM
Sex Work A Feminist Debate on Sex Work Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown makes the case for legalizing sex work. Author Julie Bindel wants customers to be held criminally liable. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.20.2022 10:00 AM
Foreign Policy Send The U.S. Military to Taiwan? Brookings Institution senior fellow William Galston debates former State Department diplomat Peter Van Buren Gene Epstein | 4.22.2022 10:00 AM
The Soho Forum Debates Regulate Social Media? Jonathan Haidt Debates Robby Soave Professor Jonathan Haidt of NYU and Reason's Robby Soave debate the harms of social media and what the government should do about it. Robby Soave | 2.24.2022 11:20 AM
Vaccine mandates Two Libertarians Debate Vaccine Mandates George Mason University Law Professor Ilya Somin debates Libertarian Party activist Angela McArdle Gene Epstein | 12.18.2021 11:00 AM
Intellectual Property Abolish Intellectual Property Rights? Patent lawyer Stephan Kinsella debates Law Professor Richard Epstein Gene Epstein | 11.24.2021 1:00 PM
