Open to Debate
Open to Debate, John Donvan, Chris HughesWe’re a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that hosts weekly debates aimed at tackling America’s extreme political polarization—bringing critical thinking, facts, reason, and civility back to public discourse.
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Our Debate Maestro Meets Legendary WNYC Broadcaster Brian Lehrer
I had the pleasure recently of appearing on public radio as the guest of New York City broadcasting legend Brian Lehrer.
It was especially meaningful because Brian was featuring a selection of his favorite weekend program hosts on his home...
New This Week and LIVE from Johns Hopkins University: Has Science Become Too Risk-Averse? [CORRECTED]
Photo credit: Will Kirk with Johns Hopkins University
From AI and gene editing to nuclear fusion and experimental cancer therapies, many of history’s biggest scientific breakthroughs once sounded implausible, dangerous, or outright...
The Hopkins Forum: Is the Scientific Enterprise Too Risk-Averse?
Topic: Science
For generations, science has advanced through a tension between caution and ambition. On one hand, the scientific method depends on skepticism, replication, and evidence. On the other hand, history’s greatest discoveries of...
New This Week: Should Museums Repatriate Cultural Artifacts?
Walk through museums like the British Museum, the Louvre, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and you’ll increasingly notice something new on the placards beside famous works: explanations of how those objects were acquired. Some reference c...
Should Museums Repatriate Cultural Artifacts?
Topics: Culture, Law
For centuries, major museums in Europe and the U.S. built their collections during eras of empire, conquest, and unequal power. Today, many institutions face growing pressure to return artifacts acquired through coloni...
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We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that tackles America’s extreme polarization of our nation and our politics by restoring critical thinking, facts, reason, and civility to public discourse. Weekly debates on NPR, Spotify, Apple, & YouTube.
Open to Debate's Moderator-in-Chief since 2008. Network Correspondent, Author, Filmmaker. Pulitzer prize finalist and four-time Emmy Award winner.
Author, Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy and Chair, Economic Security Project.
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