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Mar
18
6:30 PM18:30

Elan Journo vs. Danny Sjursen

  • Monday, March 18, 2019
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • SubCulture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“To resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel must first achieve defeat of the Palestinian movement."

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Apr
15
6:30 PM18:30

Craig Idso vs. Jeffrey Bennett

  • Monday, April 15, 2019
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • SubCulture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“There is little or no rigorous evidence that rising concentrations of carbon dioxide are causing dangerous global warming and threatening life on the planet."

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May
13
6:30 PM18:30

Nina Teicholz vs. David Katz

  • Monday, May 13, 2019
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • SubCulture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“There is little or no rigorous evidence that vegetarian/vegan diets are healthier than diets that include meat, eggs, and dairy."

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Feb
20
6:30 PM18:30

John Allison vs. Mark Zandi

  • Wednesday, February 20, 2019
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • SubCulture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“The financial crisis of 2008 was caused mainly by government-induced distortion of markets rather than caused mainly by intrinsic market failure"

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Jan
14
6:30 PM18:30

Richard Rothstein vs. Howard Husock

  • Monday, January 14, 2019
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • SubCulture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“Since the federal government fostered housing segregation in the 20th century, the government should foster housing integration in the 21st."

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Dec
3
6:30 PM18:30

Kenneth Rogoff vs. Lawrence White

  • Monday, December 3, 2018
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • SubCulture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"Governments of the advanced industrial economies should phase out the use of paper money in the form of large-denomination notes and sharply restrict the use of crypto-currencies."

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Nov
14
6:30 PM18:30

John McWhorter vs. Nikhil Singh

  • Wednesday, November 14, 2018
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • SubCulture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"The message of anti-racism has become as harmful a force in American life as racism itself."

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Oct
15
6:30 PM18:30

Bhaskar Sunkara vs. Gene Epstein

  • Monday, October 15, 2018
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“Socialism is more effective than capitalism in bringing liberty and prosperity to the masses”

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Sep
13
6:30 PM18:30

Gary Kleck vs. Paul Helmke

  • Thursday, September 13, 2018
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • SubCulture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“While laws that prohibit gun ownership would reduce crimes perpetrated by criminals, that benefit would be more than offset by the foregone opportunities for defensive gun use by victims of crime.”

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Aug
27
6:30 PM18:30

William Easterly vs. Joseph Stiglitz

  • Monday, August 27, 2018
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • SubCulture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Discussion
“Is the best way to end global poverty free markets or government action?”

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Jul
2
6:30 PM18:30

Erik Voorhees vs. Peter Schiff

  • Monday, July 2, 2018
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“Bitcoin, or a similar form of cryptocurrency, will eventually replace governments' fiat money as the preferred medium of exchange."

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Jun
11
6:30 AM06:30

Randy Barnett vs. Michael Dorf

  • Monday, June 11, 2018
  • 6:30 AM 8:30 PM 06:30 20:30
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“The U.S. Constitution should be interpreted and applied according to the original meaning communicated to the public by the words of the text."

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May
14
6:30 PM18:30

Bryan Caplan vs. Edward Glaeser

  • Monday, May 14, 2018
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • SubCulture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“All government support of higher education should be abolished."

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Apr
16
6:30 PM18:30

Robert Murphy vs. George Selgin

  • Monday, April 16, 2018
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"Fractional reserve banking poses a threat to the stability of market economies"

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Mar
19
6:30 PM18:30

Michael Kimmel vs. Cathy Young

  • Monday, March 19, 2018
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"There is a rape culture on college campuses that creates an unsafe environment for female students”

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Feb
12
6:30 PM18:30

Emily Horowitz vs. Marci Hamilton

  • Monday, February 12, 2018
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"All the laws requiring those convicted of sex offenses to put their names in a registry should be abolished."

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Jan
16
6:30 PM18:30

Yaron Brook vs. Gene Epstein

  • Tuesday, January 16, 2018
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"Selfishness is a Virtue."

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Dec
11
6:30 PM18:30

Tarren Bragdon vs. Neera Tanden

  • Monday, December 11, 2017
  • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM 18:30 20:30
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"Fifteen million able-bodied adults on government welfare would have a better chance at economic betterment if they were taken off welfare."

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Nov
13
6:30 PM18:30

Don Boudreaux vs. Rick Manning

  • Monday, November 13, 2017
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"The U.S. government should unilaterally abolish all tariffs and duties on imports and all subsidies to exports, thereby making all reciprocal trade agreements with other countries unnecessary."

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Oct
16
6:30 PM18:30

Peter Schuck vs. Michael Meyers

  • Monday, October 16, 2017
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“All Affirmative Action programs in public colleges and universities that are based on ethnic-racial composition should be abolished."

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Sep
19
6:30 PM18:30

Jocob Hacker vs. David Goldhill

  • Tuesday, September 19, 2017
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
“The U.S. government should offer a Medicare-like plan that would be available to all Americans buying health insurance.”

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Jul
11
6:30 PM18:30

Bob Bowdon vs. Samuel Abrams

  • Tuesday, July 11, 2017
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"Parents should have the choice to opt out of public schools and redirect the taxpayer tuition money for their children to other approved schools or educational options."

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Jun
13
6:30 PM18:30

Mark Skousen vs. Gene Epstein

  • Tuesday, June 13, 2017
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"Adam Smith should be honored as the founder of modern economics and free-enterprise capitalism."

 

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May
16
6:30 PM18:30

Lawrence Ross vs. Kmele Foster

  • Tuesday, May 16, 2017
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"America's colleges have fostered a racist environment that makes them a hostile space for African American students."

 

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Apr
12
6:30 PM18:30

George Selgin vs. Josh Barro

  • Wednesday, April 12, 2017
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation should be abolished in favor of private sector solutions for protecting the safety of bank deposits."

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Mar
13
6:30 PM18:30

Michael Cannon vs. Jonathan Cohn.

  • Monday, March 13, 2017
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Subculture Theater (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:
"A market system for medical care would save more people from suffering inadequate care than any other system."

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Feb
13
6:30 PM18:30

Benjamin Powell vs. Mark Krikorian

  • Monday, February 13, 2017
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:

"U.S. immigration policy should be to issue migration visas, without any numerical limitations, to all applicants who are not on a terrorist watch list, and who do not otherwise have criminal records or contagious diseases."

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Jan
17
6:30 PM18:30

Jonathan Chait vs. Matt Welch

  • Tuesday, January 17, 2017
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:

"Based on his record of accomplishments, Barack Obama has been a great president."
 

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Dec
12
6:30 PM18:30

Richard Epstein of NYU ​vs. Chris Preble of Cato.

  • Monday, December 12, 2016
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:

"The United States should be prepared to use force in defense of friendly nations even when not subject to the direct threat of force."

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Nov
1
6:30 PM18:30

Walter Block of Loyola University ​vs. Nick Gillespie of Reason.

  • Tuesday, November 1, 2016
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:

"Libertarians should vote for Donald Trump in the presidential election."

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Oct
17
6:30 PM18:30

Robin Hanson of George Mason University vs. Bryan Caplan of George Mason University.

  • Monday, October 17, 2016
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:

"Robots will eventually dominate the world and eliminate human abilities to earn wages."

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Sep
19
6:30 PM18:30

Heather Mac Donald of Manhattan Institute ​vs. Tim Lynch of Cato Institute.

  • Monday, September 19, 2016
  • 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 18:30 21:00
  • Google Calendar ICS

Resolution:

"There is a war on cops that makes everyone less safe."

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