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Transcript: Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?
Debate Details
For the Motion: Diann Rust-Tierney, Barry Scheck
Against the Motion: Robert Blecker, Kent Scheidegger
Moderator: John Donvan
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John Donvan:
So, I would at this point like to start things off by please welco...
New This Week: The Perils of Modern Romance
The wedding bells that rang for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce earlier this month have reignited conversations about modern romance just as debates over marriage and family are heating up elsewhere. From Vice President JD Vance’s calls for A...
Transcript - Are We Overcomplicating Love and Sex?
Debate Details
Opening Remarks
James J. Sexton (00:00:00):
It’s also really nice ‘cause, you know, humanity continues. Like, we have to make babies in order for that to happen. And in order to make babies, we have to have sex.
Malav...
Are We Overcomplicating Love and Sex?
Topic: Culture
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Forget “happily ever after.” Today’s relationship questions aren’t just about who to marry — they’re about whether marriage, monogamy, or even parenthood are still worth aspiring to. If Taylor Swift and Tra...
New This Week: The Current State of the Iran War
This week’s debate came at an unexpected time. Earlier this week, we were recording this debate as “Who Won the Iran War?” when the terms of the memorandum of understanding were still in effect, and the fighting between Iran and the U.S. ha...
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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.
Host of Reason Interview pod, editor at large at Reason, coauthor of Declaration of Independents, literature Ph.D., former teen mag editor. "...is to libertarianism what Lou Reed is to rock ‘n’ roll, the quintessence of its outlaw spirit."-NY Times
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