The Soho Forum Debates

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.

All Episodes

Author Matt Ridley debates virologist Stephen Goldstein on the origins of SARS-CoV-2.

Jul 19

1 hr 33 min

Dennis Pratt and Gene Epstein debate the efficacy of ethical and consequentialist arguments for libertarianism.

Jul 7

1 hr 39 min

Economists Gene Epstein and David Friedman debate the merits of the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics.

Jul 5

1 hr 34 min

The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald takes on famed lawyer and author Alan Dershowitz.

May 24

1 hr 52 min

In lieu of the planned debate with Brent Orrell, Gene Epstein and Tom Woods discuss the prudence of COVID-related restrictions.

Apr 26

1 hr 33 min

Columnist Joe Nocera debates Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

Apr 5

1 hr 32 min

Eli Lake of The Free Press debates author Jeremy Hammond at The Soho Forum.

Mar 1

1 hr 28 min

AEI's Tony Mills and British biochemist Terence Kealey debate whether science needs government funding.

Feb 2

1 hr 29 min

Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.

Dec 2023

1 hr 31 min

Susan Schneider and Jobst Landgrebe debate the dangers of AI.

Nov 2023

1 hr 45 min

Mark Mills and Rosario Fortugno debate the future of electric vehicles.

Oct 2023

1 hr 36 min

Yaron Brook and Bryan Caplan debate the merits of anarcho-capitalism.

Sep 2023

1 hr 26 min