This may be the most anticipated event in the Soho Forum's history! The Soho Forum is a project of the Reason Foundation and features Oxford-style debate on topics of special interest to libertarians. Founder Gene Epstein will be moderating this debate: the eagerly awaited contest between Scott Horton and Bill Kristol on US foreign policy.  The debate will be live-streamed by the Washoe County LP and is free to attend. 

The resolution: "a willingness to intervene, and to seek regime change, is key to an American foreign policy that benefits America."

For the affirmative:  William ("Bill") Kristol was the founder and editor-at-large of the political magazine The Weekly Standard, published from 1995 through 2018. He’s known for advocating for the U.S. invasion for Iraq and has since become a prominent critic of President Trump Bill was chairman of the New Citizenship Project from 1997 to 2005. In 1997, he co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with Robert Kagan He’s a member of the board of trustees for the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a director of the Foreign Policy Initiative.

For the negative:  Scott Horton is the author of the book Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, managing director for the Libertarian Institute, host of Antiwar Radio for Pacifica Radio’s KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and KUCR in Riverside, California, and the foreign policy interview podcast, The Scott Horton Show. Horton conducts interviews with journalists, politicians, pundits, lawyers, and experts on foreign policy and war-time law. Horton has recorded more than 5,000 interviews since 2003. Scott is also the editorial director of the libertarian, non-interventionist website Antiwar.com. He’s made numerous appearances on other podcasts, including The Tom Woods Show.

We hope you can join us!  

Can't make the live event?? Stay tuned - there will likely be a watch party organized on a later date outside of normal work hours.