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This Week: Is America's Primary System Broken?
Are Primary Elections Ruining Democracy?
Midterms are coming in November, but 15 states are holding primaries in August, and several happened over the course of the past week. A race in battleground Michigan received the most attention, wh...
Transcript: Are Primary Elections Ruining Democracy?
Debate Details
For the Motion: Elaine Kamarck
Against the Motion: Jed Ober
Opening Remarks
John Donvan:
Hi, everybody and welcome to Intelligence Squared. I am John Donvan. And something I heard multiple times during my career as...
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New This Week: A Look at the Founders 250 Years Later
We’re celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by taking on some of the biggest questions surrounding the nation’s founding. Few are more enduring, or more debatable, than whether we should continue to revere the Founders or take a more crit...
Transcript: Is it Time to Stop Idolizing the Founders?
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Arguing Yes: Osita Nwanevu
Arguing No: Helena Rosenblatt
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I think that the culture of believing that the Founders got everything right prevents us from seeing those flaws. We ma...
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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
“Lazy, dumb, and loose,” according to men online. Author of UNPRECEDENTED TIMES: a novel (Holt / august 18, 2026) and RAGE BAIT: essays (Atria / in progress rn!) and words all over the internet! ✨
Contributing Editor at The New Republic. Columnist at The Guardian. Author of The Right of the People (2025).
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