Open to Debate
America is more divided than ever—but it doesn’t have to be. Open to Debate offers an antidote to the chaos. We bring multiple perspectives together for real, nonpartisan debates. Debates that are structured, respectful, clever, provocative, and driven by the facts. Open to Debate is on a mission to restore balance to the public square through expert moderation, good-faith arguments, and reasoned analysis. We examine the issues of the day with the world’s most influential thinkers spanning science, technology, politics, culture, and global affairs. It’s time to build a stronger, more united democracy with the civil exchange of ideas. Be open-minded. Be curious. Be ready to listen. Join us in being Open to Debate. (Formerly Intelligence Squared U.S.)
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#115 - Does The Equal Protection Clause Forbid ...
With Roger Clegg, Deborah Archer, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Stuart Taylor, Jr.
52 min
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#114 - Can Central Banks Print Prosperity?
With Roger Bootle, Edward Conard, Simon Johnson, and Andrew Huszar
53 min
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#113 - Do U.S. Prosecutors Have Too Much Power?
With Paul Butler, David Hoffman, Nancy Gertner, and Reid Schar
50 min
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#112 - Should College Students Be Allowed To Ta...
With Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, Eric Racine, Nita Farahany, and Nicole Vincent
50 min
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#111 - Should We Raise The Federal Gas Tax To F...
With Shailen Bhatt, Adrian Moore, Alison Premo Black, and Stephen Moore
50 min
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Bonus Podcast: Is Death Final?
With Dr. Eben Alexander, Sean Carroll, Dr. Raymond Moody, and Dr. Steven Novella
46 min
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#110 - Are China And The U.S. Long-Term Enemies?
With Peter Brookes, Robert Daly, John Mearsheimer, and Kevin Rudd
55 min
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#109 - Should Courts Or Campuses Decide Sexual ...
With Jed Rubenfeld, Michelle Anderson, Stephen Schulhofer, and Jeannie Suk
52 min
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Bonus Podcast: Should We Abolish the Minimum Wage?
With James A. Dorn, Jared Bernstein, Russell Roberts, and Karen Kornbluh
48 min
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#108 - Does The U.S. Need To Defeat ISIS, Or Is...
With Michèle Flournoy, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Philip Zelikow, and Dov Zakheim
50 min
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Bonus Podcast: Israel Can Live With A Nuclear Iran
James Dobbins, Reuven Pedatzur, Shmuel Bar, Jeffery Goldberg
50 min
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Bonus Podcast: Obamacare Is Now Beyond Rescue
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Megan McArdle, Jonathan Chait, Dr. Douglas Kamerow
47 min
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Bonus Podcast: Men Are Finished
Hannah Rosin, Dan Abrams, Christina Hoff Sommers, David ZIncZenko
50 min
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#107 - Should States Be Required To License Sam...
With John Eastman, Evan Wolfson, Sherif Girgis, and Kenji Yoshino
50 min
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#106 - Is Obama's Iran Deal Good For America?
With Philip Gordon, Michael Doran, Thomas Pickering, and Mark Dubowitz.
50 min
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Bonus Podcast: Too Many Kids Go To College
With Peter Thiel, Charles Murray, Henry Bienen and Vivek Wadhwa
48 min
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#105 - Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb?
With Nicholas Carr, Genevieve Bell, Andrew Keen, and David Weinberger.
50 min
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#104 - Should We Abolish the Death Penalty?
With Diann Rust-Tierney, Robert Blecker, Barry Scheck, and Kent Scheidegger.
50 min
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#103 - Has The President Exceeded His Authority...
With Gene Healy, Akhil Reed Amar, Deborah Pearlstein, and Philip Bobbitt
50 min
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#102 - Should The U.S. Adopt The Right To Be Fo...
With Paul Nemitz, Andrew McLaughlin, Eric Posner, and Jonathan Zittrain.
50 min
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#101 - Are Liberals Stifling Intellectual Diver...
With Greg Lukianoff, Angus Johnston, Kirsten Powers, and Jeremy Mayer.
50 min
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#100 - Should The World Bet On America?
With Josef Joffe, Chrystia Freeland, Peter Zeihan, and James Rickards
50 min
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Tribute To David Carr
Upon hearing the news of the sudden passing of The New York Times's David Carr on February 12th, 2015, we assembled this rememberance. David appeared on our stage on October 27, 2009 arguing against the debate motion: Good Riddance to Mainstream Media.
6 min
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#99 - Is Amazon The Reader's Friend?
With Joe Konrath, Franklin Foer, Matthew Yglesias, and Scott Turow
50 min
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Retrospective On The Freedom Of Speech
Thinking back to a 2006 debate in the context of the Charlie Hebdo attack
11 min