The Sheen Center

18 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012

Doors open at 6:00 PM
Meeting convenes: 6:30 PM
Reception: 8:00 PM

ALL tickets must be reserved in advance.

Moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

*PLEASE NOTE: Per NYC Regulation, you will be required to show proof of vaccination in order to attend in person*

Due to these unforeseen circumstances, we are planning to live-stream this event for those who cannot attend. Live-stream tickets are available and must be reserved at least 24 hours in advance so that we can send out all the necessary details to join the event.

Event Details

This is a live debate at the Sheen Center with a reception to follow offsite.

In order to attend the live debate at the venue, you will need to be able to show proof of vaccination.

The debate reception will be hosted at Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein's loft apartment, just two blocks away, where there are no vax or mask requirements.

We are keenly aware that NYC's vaccine mandate is an issue for many. We're making every effort to create options for those who do not want to comply. Therefore, in addition to our live event, we will also be hosting a livestream viewing party.

Gene has generously opened his home and 123" screen for this non-mandate option, for which doors open at 6:00 pm. And you can also attend the reception if you plan to attend the event at the venue.

We've created four separate ticket options for attending this event, all of which can all be viewed below.

For the affirmative:

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His academic specialization is the psychology of morality and the moral emotions. Dr. Haidt is the author of three books: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006), The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012), and The Coddling of the American Mind (2018). He was named one of the “top global thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine, and one of the “top world thinkers” by Prospect magazine.

For the negative:

Robby Soave is a senior editor at Reason magazine, host of "Rising," and author of the books "Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn't Fear Facebook and the Future" and "Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump." He enjoys writing about culture, politics, education policy, criminal justice reform, television, and video games. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, and The Detroit News. In 2016, Forbes named him to the "30 Under 30" list in the category of law and policy. He also serves on the D.C. Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Caveat

21 A Clinton St. New York, NY 10002

Doors open at 5:30 PM
Meeting convenes: 6:00 PM
Reception: 7:30 PM
Cash Bar
Food will be provided.

Tickets must be reserved in advance.

Moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

*PLEASE NOTE: Per NYC Regulation, you will be required to show proof of vaccination in order to attend in person*

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Simulcast Details

*As this event is at a private residence, there will be no vax or mask mandates in order to attend.* 

Join us to Livestream the Gernot Wagner vs Steven Koonin debate + and stay for the reception to follow!

Drinks will be provided, along with our famous food catered by Gene’s wife, Hisako Kobayashi.

Food and drink are included with all simulcast tickets.

Reception will begin at 7:30 PM

This is a live debate at the Caveat with a reception to follow offsite.

In order to attend the live debate at the venue, you will need to be able to show proof of vaccination.

The debate reception will be hosted at Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein's loft apartment, just 15 minutes away, where there are no vax or mask requirements.

We are keenly aware that NYC's vaccine mandate is an issue for many. We're making every effort to create options for those who do not want to comply. Therefore, in addition to our live event, we will also be hosting a livestream viewing party.

Gene has generously opened his home and 123" screen for this non-mandate option, for which doors open at 5:30 pm. And you can also attend the reception if you plan to attend the event at the venue.

For the affirmative:

Gernot Wagner is a climate economist. His research, writing, and teaching focus on climate risks and climate policy. Gernot writes the Risky Climate column for Bloomberg Green and has written four books: Geoengineering: the Gamble, published by Polity (2021); Stadt, Land, Klima (“City, Country, Climate”), published, in German, by Brandstätter Verlag (2021); Climate Shock, joint with Harvard's Martin Weitzman and published by Princeton (2015); and But will the planet notice?, published by Hill & Wang/Farrar Strauss & Giroux (2011). He teaches climate economics and policy at NYU, where he is a clinical associate professor at the Department of Environmental Studies and associated clinical professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service.

For the negative:

Steven Koonin is the author of Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters (2021). He joined New York University Stern School of Business as a Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences in September 2012. He is also Director of NYU's new Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). Professor Koonin was confirmed by the Senate in May 2009 as Undersecretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, serving in that position until November, 2011. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, he was BP's Chief Scientist, where he was a strong advocate for research into renewable energies and alternate fuel sources. He came to BP in 2004 after almost three decades as Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, serving as the Institute's Vice President and Provost for the last nine years.

Caveat

21 A Clinton St. New York, NY 10002

Doors open at 5:30 PM
Meeting Convenes at 6:00 PM
Reception at 7:30 PM
Cash Bar
Food will be provided.

Tickets must be reserved in advance.

Moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

*PLEASE NOTE: Per NYC Regulation, you will be required to show proof of vaccination in order to attend in person*

———————————-

Simulcast Details

*As this event is at a private residence, there will be no vax or mask mandates in order to attend.* 

Join us to Livestream the William Galston vs Peter Van Buren debate + and stay for the reception to follow!

Drinks will be provided, along with our famous food catered by Gene’s wife, Hisako Kobayashi.

Food and drink are included with all simulcast tickets.

Reception will begin at 7:30 PM

This is a live debate at the Caveat with a reception to follow offsite.

In order to attend the live debate at the venue, you will need to be able to show proof of vaccination.

The debate reception will be hosted at Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein's loft apartment, just 15 minutes away, where there are no vax or mask requirements.

We are keenly aware that NYC's vaccine mandate is an issue for many. We're making every effort to create options for those who do not want to comply. Therefore, in addition to our live event, we will also be hosting a livestream viewing party.

Gene has generously opened his home and 123" screen for this non-mandate option, for which doors open at 5:30 pm. And you can also attend the reception if you plan to attend the event at the venue.

For the affirmative:

William A. Galston holds the Ezra K. Zilkha chair in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he has served as Senior Fellow since 2006. The author of ten books and more than one hundred articles in the fields of American politics, public policy, and political theory, he also writes a weekly opinion column for the Wall Street Journal. He is a veteran of six presidential campaigns and was President Clinton’s Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy from 1993 until 1995. A recipient of the Hubert Humphrey award from the American Political Science Association, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

For the negative:

Peter Van Buren spent 24 years as an American diplomat, assigned to Taipei, Beijing, and Hong Kong. He also served in Japan, Korea, and spent a year in Iraq embedded with the 10th Mountain Division as part of the reconstruction effort there. It was his whistleblowing book about Iraq that saw him forced into early retirement after a bitter fight with the State Department over his First Amendment rights. Since leaving government, Van Buren has written for the New York Times, Reuters, The Nation, Salon, TomDispatch, and Antiwar.com. He is currently a contributing editor for The American Conservative Magazine. He is the author of three books, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan, and Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99 Percent.

Caveat

21 A Clinton St. New York, NY 10002

Doors open at 5:30 PM
Meeting Convenes at 6:00 PM
Reception at 7:30 PM
Cash Bar
Food will be provided.

Tickets must be reserved in advance.

Moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

*PLEASE NOTE: Per NYC regulation, you must be able to show proof of full vaccination in order to attend.

For the affirmative:

Jeffrey A. Singer is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He is principal and founder of Valley Surgical Clinics, Ltd., Arizona’s largest and oldest group private surgical practice. He was a regular contributor to Arizona Medicine, the journal of the Arizona Medical Association from 1994-2016. He served on the Advisory Board Council of the Center for Political Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University (2014-2018) and is an adjunct instructor in the Program on Political History and Leadership at ASU. He writes and speaks extensively on regional and national public policy, with a focus on health care policy and the harmful effects of drug prohibition. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals as well as major national and regional journals and periodicals. He received a B.A. from Brooklyn College, an M.D. from New York Medical College, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

For the negative:

Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His latest book is Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Bloomsbury, 2015), for which he traveled across the United States. Dreamland won a National Book Critics Circle award for the Best Nonfiction Book of 2015. It was also selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by Amazon.com, Slate.com, the Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, Seattle Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Entertainment Weekly, Audible, and in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Business. Quinones is currently working on a follow up to Dreamland. He is formerly a reporter with the L.A. Times, where he worked for 10 years (2004-2014). He is a veteran reporter on immigration, gangs, drug trafficking, and the border.

*This debate is co-sponsored by The Libertarian Christian Institute, a non-profit whose mission is to equip Christians to make the Christian case for a free society and to help libertarians reach more Christians with the message of liberty.

For the affirmative:

Robert P. Murphy is Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute. He has a PhD in economics from NYU. Murphy is also Senior Economist with the Institute for Energy Research (IER), Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute, and Research Fellow with the Independent Institute. He has authored hundreds of articles and several books explaining economics to the layperson, including Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action. He hosts the podcast "The Bob Murphy Show" and, with Tom Woods, co-hosts the podcast, "Contra Krugman."

For the negative:

Reverend Dr. Anthony Campolo is professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania and previously served for ten years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as an associate pastor at his home church of over sixty years, Mount Carmel Baptist Church, in West Philadelphia. Dr. Campolo has co-founded and provided leadership to the progressive Christian movement, Red Letter Christians, as well as, the Campolo Center for Ministry, a program that provides financial support, training, and mentoring to those the Church has called to full-time ministry. He has written over thirty-five books, including his most recent release, “Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son.”

Cash bar opens at 5:45pm
Event starts at 6:30pm
Subculture Theater
45 Bleecker St,
NY, 10012

Tickets must be reserved in advance.

Moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

For the affirmative:

Rosario Fortugno is the founder and CEO of InOrbis Intercity, the first all-electric, city-to-city ridesharing service in Canada. InOrbis has a fleet of Teslas operating in multiple areas in Canada and the US in 2020. As a consultant, Rosario has worked with Canada’s largest oil and gas companies to automate the hauling of bitumen in Alberta’s Oilsands. This has meant that nearly 50% of all large-haulage trucks owned by Suncor Energy are now running fully autonomously, moving bitumen (a mixture of crude oil and sand) in the open-pit mines near Ft. McMurray.

For the negative:

Eric Peters is a freelance Anarcho-Libertarian writer, who uses cars and bikes as the vehicle for making the case for freedom and self-ownership. His books include Road Hogs (2011) and Automotive Atrocities (2004). He has written for The Washington Times, Detroit News and Free Press, Investors Business Daily, The American Spectator, National Review, The Chicago Tribune ,and Wall Street Journal. He has also made regular appearances on “The Tom Woods Show” and describes himself as "a refugee from DC."

Cash bar opens at 5:45pm
Event starts at 6:30pm
Subculture Theater
45 Bleecker St,
NY, 10012

Tickets must be reserved in advance.

Moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

For the affirmative:

Elizabeth Nolan Brown is an associate editor at Reason magazine, where her work has focused mainly on the intersection of sex, tech, civil liberties, and public policy. She is also co-founder of the nonprofit group Feminists for Liberty. Brown has published in outlets that include The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Buzzfeed, The Daily Beast, Playboy, Fox News, Politico, Time, Spectator U.S., The Week, and the Cato Institute's Libertarianism.org. A native of Cincinnati, she lives with her husband in Washington, D.C.

For the negative:

Madeleine Kearns is a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism at National Review. A native of Glasgow, Scotland, Kearns was a 2017 summer intern at The Spectator and became the first intern on record to contribute a cover story. In August 2019 she wrote a much-discussed cover story for National Review, entitled "Don't Legalize Prostitution," inspired by her experience talking to street prostitutes in Los Angeles on one of the most notorious prostitution tracks in the United States. She has also written investigative cover stories on gender policies as they relate to children both for The Spectator and National Review. Her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Catholic Herald, and Heterodox Academy.