Steamboat Institute, in partnership with the University of California, Davis, is proud to present a compelling debate on the following resolution: Be it resolved, scientific progress is best achieved through publicly funded research initiatives. Arguing the affirmative is Jon Hartley, economist and Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Arguing the negative is John Early, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute. Moderator is Carrie Sheffield, Senior Policy Analyst, Independent Women’s Forum; Tony Blankley Senior Fellow, Steamboat Institute. 

Steamboat Institute, in partnership with the Colangelo College of Business, is proud to present a compelling debate on the following resolution: Be it resolved, in the near term, artificial intelligence will do more harm than good. Arguing the affirmative is Bret Weinstein, Ph.D., Evolutionary Biologist, Author, and Host of The DarkHorse Podcast. Arguing the negative is Michael Strain, Ph.D, Director of Economic Policy Studies and the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. Moderator is Hadley Heath Manning; Tony Blankley Senior Fellow, Steamboat Institute.

Steamboat Institute, in partnership with the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual, is proud to present a compelling debate on the following resolution: Be it resolved, capitalism is better than socialism for human flourishing. Arguing the affirmative is Yaron Brook, Chairman of the Board of the Ayn Rand Institute; Host of The Yaron Brook Show; Author of In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. Arguing the negative is Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin; President of the Nation magazine; Author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. Moderator is Hadley Heath Manning, Tony Blankley Senior Fellow, Steamboat Institute.

"Be it resolved, the government should ban all DEI programs."

Arguing the affirmative: Jason Riley, Columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Arguing the negative: Ralph Richard Banks, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.
Moderator: Carine Hajjar, Opinion Writer and Editorial Board Member at The Boston Globe; Steamboat Institute Fellow for Public Policy and American Exceptionalism.

We hope you enjoy this debate! 

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Steamboat Institute, in partnership with the Cornell Political Union, Cornell Heterodox Academy, Cornellians United for Free Speech and Cornell Republicans, is proud to present a compelling debate on the following resolution: Be it resolved, American global dominance is the best defense against tyranny and evil. Arguing the affirmative is Mary Kissel, Executive VP and Senior Policy Advisor, Stephens, Inc.; Former Advisor to Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo. Arguing the negative is Justin Logan, Director of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. Moderator is Sarah Bedford, Investigations Editor for the Washington Examiner; Tony Blankley Fellow, Steamboat Institute.

Steamboat Institute, in partnership with VMI’s Center for Leadership and Ethics, is proud to present a compelling debate on the following resolution: Be it resolved, the U.S. is experiencing a constitutional crisis. Arguing the affirmative is Daniel Farbman, Associate Professor & McHale Faculty Research Scholar, Boston College Law School. Arguing the negative is Jonathan Turley, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, George Washington University Law School. Moderator is Kaylee McGhee White, Editor-in-Chief for Independent Women Features; Tony Blankley Fellow, Steamboat Institute.

Steamboat Institute, in partnership with the CMU Civic Forum, is proud to present a compelling debate on the following resolution: "Be it resolved, more federal agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management, should be relocated outside Washington, D.C." Arguing the affirmative is William Perry Pendley, Former Director of the Bureau of Land Management in the Trump Administration. Arguing the negative is Mary Jo Rugwell, President, Public Lands Foundation; Former State Director, Bureau of Land Management, WY. The moderator is Amber Duke, Senior Editor, Daily Caller; Cohost of Rising at The Hill TV; Tony Blankley Fellow, Steamboat Institute.

Steamboat Institute, in partnership with the Institute of American Civics at the Howard H. Baker School for Public Policy and Public Affairs, is proud to present a compelling debate on the following resolution: Be it resolved, persons born in the U.S. to temporarily or illegally present parents are U.S. citizens by birthright under the Fourteenth Amendment. Arguing the affirmative is Vikram Amar, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Davis School of Law. Arguing the negative is Chuck Cooper, Founding Member and Chairman of Cooper & Kirk, PLLC. Moderator is Philip Wegmann, White House Correspondent for Real Clear Politics; Tony Blankley Senior Fellow, Steamboat Institute.

The Steamboat Institute, in partnership with the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, is proud to present a compelling debate on the following resolution: "Be it resolved, the U.S. federal government should make reducing the national debt a fiscal priority." Arguing the affirmative is Steve Moore, Senior Visiting Fellow in Economics, The Heritage Foundation. Arguing the negative is Stephanie Kelton, Bestselling Author of The Deficit Myth; Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Stony Brook University. Moderated by Carrie Sheffield, Senior Policy Analyst, Independent Women’s Voice; Tony Blankley Senior Fellow, Steamboat Institute.