IQ2US Debate: Snowden Was Justified
How much interest is there in Edward Snowden? Moderator John Donvan kicked off Wednesday’s Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate, Snowden Was Justified, with some interesting perspective, saying it was the...
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Heroin Addiction Rates Reach Troubling New High
Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of America’s most revered actors; a winner of multiple awards and considered one of the greatest performers of his generation. Though it almost seems cliché–the genius...
View ArticleUp For Debate: Affirmative Action on Campus Does More Harm Than Good
A significant issue on college campuses since the early 1950s, there are signs that support for affirmative action is foundering. Last year’s Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas is just...
View ArticleThe Drone Debate: Has President Obama Stretched the Limits of Constitutional...
In order to frame last night’s Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate, moderator John Donvan invited Georgetown University constitutional law professor Nick Rosenkranz on stage to give the audience a...
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Putin’s Russia: Marginal Power or Superpower Reborn?
Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates couldn’t have timed last night’s event, Russia is a Marginal Power, any better. This morning several news outlets reported on the country’s most aggressive military...
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Up For Debate: Millennials Don’t Stand a Chance
“How millennial are you?” That was the question leading into a 14-item Pew Research Center poll from 2010 on how close you were to identifying with the millennials– a demographic cohort that describes...
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Generation Millennial Debate: Deserved or Deluded?
Not since “Generation X” have a group of young people come under such scrutiny. Millennials, the robust generational cohort born sometime between 1980 and the early 2000s are the research demographic...
View ArticleGod vs Science: Do We Have to Believe in One or the Other?
Do a quick Google search on the debate over “God vs science” and you’ll probably discover that the most heated arguments come to the conclusion that the two concepts are mutually exclusive. But do they...
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Up for Debate: Death Is Not Final
What happens to our consciousness the moment our bodies enter the throes of death? Are “near-death experiences” the result of misfiring neurons and synapses, or do they signify the consciousness–or...
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Up For Debate: Does Unrestricted Political Spending Constitute Free Speech?
How has unlimited political spending changed the political landscape in the United States? Just ask the “politicos” themselves. A story on MSNBC last week details a report on the impact of the U.S....
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