The Soho Forum Debates

Zephyr Teachout and John Ketcham debate the mayor of the Big Apple.

Terence Kealey and Jeffrey Flier debate abolishing the National Institutes of Health.

A Soho Forum debate on artificial intelligence's potential to deliver widespread societal benefits

Naomi Schaefer Riley and Martin Guggenheim debate the proper role of child protective services.

Matt Stoller and Geoffrey A. Manne debate antitrust law and Big Tech.

Jason Riley and Paul Frymer debate affirmative action and the Supreme Court.

The Drug Policy Institute's Kevin Sabet debates Reason's Zach Weissmueller.

A debate between Melanie Thompson and Kaytlin Bailey.

Glenn 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.

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

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

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

Susan Schneider and Jobst Landgrebe debate the dangers of AI.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A livestreamed debate between Binyamin Appelbaum and Gene Epstein

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

Climate scientist Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M University defends urgent action on climate against scientist and author Steven Koonin.

Monetary Metals CEO Keith Weiner defends the future of gold against bitcoin podcaster Pierre Rochard.

Scott Horton vs. Cathy Young in a live debate at PorcFest, in Lancaster, New Hampshire.