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The Soho Forum Debates

by The Soho Forum Debates

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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1
Should the NIH Be Abolished?
0:00 Mar 5, 2026
2
Will AI Benefit Everyone?
1:41:56 Jan 30, 2026
3
Should Child Protective Services Intervene More?
1:50:52 Jan 9, 2026
4
Is It Time To Break Up Big Tech?
1:37:48 Dec 19, 2025
5
Should Affirmative Action End?
1:37:39 Nov 21, 2025
6
Is Oregon Proof That Drug Decriminalization Will Fail?
1:25:13 Oct 24, 2025
7
Should Paying for Sex Be a Crime?
1:34:11 Sep 16, 2025
8
Are Trump's Deportations Constitutional?
1:38:10 Aug 12, 2025
9
Should the U.S. Have a Public Health Insurance Plan?
1:49:58 Jul 18, 2025
10
Was the Cold War a Deception?
1:28:48 Jun 19, 2025
11
Dave Smith and Alex Nowrasteh Debate Immigration
1:44:07 May 21, 2025
12
Should Libertarians Prioritize Their Own Communities?
1:12:23 May 2, 2025
13
Are the Palestinians Systematically Oppressed?
1:26:53 Mar 22, 2025
14
Did the U.S. Provoke Russia's Invasion of Ukraine?
1:50:48 Feb 8, 2025
15
El Salvador's Bukele: Authoritarian or Model President?
1:22:24 Jan 27, 2025
16
Was the Supreme Court Wrong About Presidential Immunity?
1:55:07 Dec 13, 2024
17
Is Javier Milei Actually Improving Argentina?
1:41:48 Nov 22, 2024
18
Are American Living Standards In Decline?
1:40:08 Oct 25, 2024
19
Are the Two Parties Any Different?
1:24:14 Sep 20, 2024
20
Is Donald Trump the Best Choice?
1:13:43 Aug 16, 2024
21
Did COVID Come From a Lab?
1:33:13 Jul 19, 2024
22
What's the Best Argument for Libertarianism?
1:39:31 Jul 7, 2024
23
Debate: Austrian vs. Chicago Economics
1:34:11 Jul 5, 2024
24
Glenn Greenwald and Alan Dershowitz Debate Bombing Iran
1:52:08 May 24, 2024
25
A Soho Forum Discussion of COVID with Tom Woods
1:33:11 Apr 26, 2024
26
Did Capitalism Fail During the Pandemic?
1:32:22 Apr 5, 2024
27
What's the Root Cause of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
1:28:38 Mar 1, 2024
28
Must Government Fund Science?
1:29:40 Feb 2, 2024
29
Social Media Censorship and The First Amendment
1:31:15 Dec 22, 2023
30
Will AI Destroy Humanity?
1:45:53 Nov 17, 2023
31
Will Electric Cars Disappoint Environmentalists?
1:36:29 Oct 20, 2023
32
Would Anarcho-Capitalism Be a Disaster?
1:26:05 Sep 22, 2023
33
Should Libertarians Support School Choice?
1:26:52 Aug 25, 2023
34
Should the U.S. Have Free Immigration?
1:41:45 Jul 28, 2023
35
Is the Nonaggression Principle Incoherent?
1:35:13 Jun 30, 2023
36
Are Libertarians Greedy and Delusional?
1:43:15 May 26, 2023
37
Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?
1:42:50 Apr 21, 2023
38
Black America and Progressivism: Jason L. Riley vs. Nikhil Pal Singh
1:43:25 Apr 1, 2023
39
National Divorce?
1:19:01 Feb 24, 2023
40
Should We Abolish the Federal Reserve?
1:33:57 Jan 27, 2023
41
Should Americans Value Nationalism?
1:26:17 Dec 16, 2022
42
Never Lock Down Again? Jay Bhattacharya vs. Sten Vermund
1:54:20 Nov 18, 2022
43
Is Free Market Ideology Hurting the Economy?
1:34:13 Oct 24, 2022
44
Is It Time to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons?
1:22:26 Sep 23, 2022
45
Does Climate Science Really Compel Us Toward Urgent Action?
1:30:49 Sep 9, 2022
46
Will Bitcoin Demonetize Gold?
1:25:49 Aug 12, 2022
47
Should the U.S. Be Arming Ukraine Against Russia?
1:22:41 Jul 8, 2022
48
Did Prescription Opioids Cause The Overdose Epidemic?
1:21:25 Jun 10, 2022
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