The Soho Forum
Monthly libertarian debate series
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The Soho Forum is a debate society that holds debates on a wide-array of libertarian-centric topics.
Gene Epstein is the Director and Moderator of the Forum which has held debates on controversial issues such as sex work,[1] Bitcoin,[2] illegal drugs,[3] and other topics.[4]
History
Reason Magazine published the first Soho Forum debate in November 2016. It was a debate between Nick Gillespie, Reason's editor-in-chief, versus Walter Block, a prominent Austrian economist, over the resolution, "Should Libertarians Vote for Trump?"[5] The Forum has been exclusively moderated by Gene Epstein, a former economics editor of Barron's.[6]
The Forum uses the Oxford-style debate method by which before the debate begins, the moderator asks the audience to cast their vote on the debate resolution.[7] Immediately following the end of the debate, the audience shares their final vote and the side with the greater percentage change between the first and second vote wins the debate.[7]
The debates are regularly published to Reason,[4] C-Span,[8] as well as to the Forum's YouTube and Spotify.[9][10]