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!