The Soho Forum Debates

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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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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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Episodes

Should Libertarians Prioritize Their Own Communities?

5/2/2025

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.

Duration:01:12:23

Are The Palestinians Systematically Oppressed?

3/22/2025

City University of New York professor Peter Beinart and AEI's Michael Rubin debate Israel and Palestine.

Duration:01:26:53

Did the U.S. Provoke Russia's Invasion of Ukraine?

2/8/2025

Antiwar.com's Scott Horton and The Free Press's Eli Lake debate U.S. foreign policy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Duration:01:50:48

El Salvador's Bukele: Authoritarian or Model President?

1/27/2025

Frontier magazine's Peter Gietl and Salvadoran journalist Ricardo Avelar debate the merits of Nayib Bukele's criminal justice policies.

Duration:01:22:24

Was the Supreme Court Wrong About Presidential Immunity?

12/13/2024

Glenn Greenwald and Elizabeth Price Foley debate Trump v. United States and its implications for presidential powers.

Duration:01:55:07

Is Javier Milei Actually Improving Argentina?

11/22/2024

Two Argentine pundits debate the success of Javier Milei.

Duration:01:41:48

Are American Living Standards In Decline?

10/25/2024

David Leonhardt and John Early debate stagnation, inequality, and how people feel about the economy.

Duration:01:40:08

Are the Two Parties Any Different?

9/20/2024

Two former Republican staffers, David Stockman and Stephen Moore, debate the state of the party.

Duration:01:24:14

Is Donald Trump the Best Choice?

8/16/2024

Famed economist Arthur Laffer debates Libertarian Party presidential candidate Chase Oliver.

Duration:01:13:43

Did COVID Come From a Lab?

7/19/2024

Author Matt Ridley debates virologist Stephen Goldstein on the origins of SARS-CoV-2.

Duration:01:33:13

What's the Best Argument for Libertarianism?

7/7/2024

Dennis Pratt and Gene Epstein debate the efficacy of ethical and consequentialist arguments for libertarianism.

Duration:01:39:31

Debate: Austrian vs. Chicago Economics

7/5/2024

Economists Gene Epstein and David Friedman debate the merits of the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics.

Duration:01:34:11

Glenn Greenwald and Alan Dershowitz Debate Bombing Iran

5/24/2024

The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald takes on famed lawyer and author Alan Dershowitz.

Duration:01:39:50

A Soho Forum Discussion of COVID with Tom Woods

4/26/2024

In lieu of the planned debate with Brent Orrell, Gene Epstein and Tom Woods discuss the prudence of COVID-related restrictions.

Duration:01:33:11

Did Capitalism Fail During the Pandemic?

4/5/2024

Columnist Joe Nocera debates Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

Duration:01:32:22

What's the Root Cause of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

3/1/2024

Eli Lake of The Free Press debates author Jeremy Hammond at The Soho Forum.

Duration:01:28:38

Must Government Fund Science?

2/2/2024

AEI's Tony Mills and British biochemist Terence Kealey debate whether science needs government funding.

Duration:01:29:40

Social Media Censorship and The First Amendment

12/22/2023

Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.

Duration:01:31:15

Will AI Destroy Humanity?

11/17/2023

Susan Schneider and Jobst Landgrebe debate the dangers of AI.

Duration:01:45:53

Will Electric Cars Disappoint Environmentalists?

10/20/2023

Mark Mills and Rosario Fortugno debate the future of electric vehicles.

Duration:01:36:29