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

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

Would Anarcho-Capitalism Be a Disaster?

9/22/2023

Yaron Brook and Bryan Caplan debate the merits of anarcho-capitalism.

Duration:01:26:05

Should Libertarians Support School Choice?

8/25/2023

Corey DeAngelis of the American Federation for Children debates libertarian author Stephan Kinsella.

Duration:01:26:52

Should the U.S. Have Free Immigration?

7/28/2023

The Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh and attorney Francis Menton debate immigration policy.

Duration:01:41:45

Is the Nonaggression Principle Incoherent?

6/30/2023

Economists David Friedman and Gene Epstein debate how best to persuade people toward libertarianism.

Duration:01:35:13

Are Libertarians Greedy and Delusional?

5/26/2023

Law professor Andrew Koppelman and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate whether libertarianism has been corrupted.

Duration:01:43:15

Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?

4/21/2023

Two historians go head-to-head on whether the controversial New York Times project has any value.

Duration:01:42:50

Black America and Progressivism: Jason L. Riley vs. Nikhil Pal Singh

3/31/2023

The Manhattan Institute senior fellow and the NYU historian debate whether black Americans should move away from progressivism.

Duration:01:43:25

National Divorce?

2/24/2023

Is breaking up the U.S. a good idea? Law professor F.H. Buckley and Libertarian Party activist Jonathan Casey debate.

Duration:01:19:01

Should We Abolish the Federal Reserve?

1/27/2023

Economists Lawrence H. White and Frederic Mishkin debate whether the Federal Reserve should be replaced with free market institutions.

Duration:01:33:57

Should Americans Value Nationalism?

12/16/2022

National Review's Rich Lowry debates the Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh.

Duration:01:21:51

Never Lock Down Again? Jay Bhattacharya vs. Sten Vermund

11/18/2022

Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates Yale's Sten Vermund on COVID-19 lockdowns, focused protection, and the Great Barrington Declaration.

Duration:01:42:29

Is Free Market Ideology Hurting the Economy?

10/24/2022

A livestreamed debate between Binyamin Appelbaum and Gene Epstein

Duration:01:34:13

Is It Time to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons?

9/23/2022

Author Ward Wilson advocates eliminating nuclear weapons. Defense consultant Peter Huessy says that's unrealistic.