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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.

5 DAYS AGO

Is Javier Milei Actually Improving Argentina?

Santiago Forster and Agustín Dante Rombolá debate the resolution, "Free market President Javier Milei of Argentina has been making tangible…

1h 42m
25 OCT

Are American Living Standards In Decline?

David Leonhardt of The New York Times and John Early of the Cato Institute debate the resolution, "The stagnation of…

1h 40m
20 SEPT

Are the Two Parties Any Different?

Former budget director under Ronald Reagan, David Stockman, and Stephen Moore, Donald Trump's former senior economic advisor, debate the resolution,…

1h 24m
16 AUG

Is Donald Trump the Best Choice?

Famed economist Arthur Laffer debates Donald Trump's candidacy with L.P. presidential candidate Chase Oliver.

1h 14m
19 JUL

Did COVID Come From a Lab?

Best-selling science and technology author Matt Ridley and University of Utah virologist Stephen Goldstein debate the resolution: "It is likely…

1h 33m
7 JUL

What's the Best Argument for Libertarianism?

Free State Project activist Dennis Pratt and Soho Forum director Gene Epstein debate the resolution, "A better way to persuade more people of libertarianism is to convince them of the ethics stemming from self-ownership and the non-aggression principle, without relying primarily on consequentialist/utilitarian arguments."

1h 40m
5 JUL

Debate: Austrian vs. Chicago Economics

Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein and Chicago school economist David Friedman debate the resolution, "The Austrian economics of Mises and Rothbard contains economic intuitions that are important, correct, and missing from Chicago School economics."

1h 34m
24 MAY

Glenn Greenwald and Alan Dershowitz Debate Bombing Iran

Professor and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald debate the resolution, "The U.S. should strike Iran's…

1h 52m

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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.