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EVENT DETAILS |
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Jason Riley vs. Nikhil Singh
Resolution:
Upward mobility for black Americans lies in rejecting the policies of progressive government, while making the most of the opportunities offered by American society.
For the Affirmative:
Jason Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute & a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where he has written about politics, economics, education, immigration & social inequality for more than 25 years. He's also a frequent public speaker & provides commentary for television & radio news outlets. Riley is the author of five books, including Please Stop Helping Us, How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed (2014); False Black Power? (2017), an assessment of why black political success has not translated into more economic advancement; & Maverick, a biography of the iconic economist & social theorist Thomas Sowell.
For the Negative:
Nikhil Pal Singh is Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis & History at New York University (NYU), & founding Faculty Director of NYUs Prison Education Program. He is author, most recently of Race & America's Long War (2017), & Reconstructing Democracy: Black Intellectuals in the American Century (forthcoming). His essays have appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The New Statesman, N + 1, & Boston Review. His Nov 2018 Soho Forum debate on anti-racisim, opposite John McWhorter, has received more than a quarter-of-a-million YouTube views.
About the Event:
Debate Location:
The Sheen Center
18 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
Debate Details:
6:00 PM: Doors Open
6:30 PM: Meeting Convenes
Reception Location:
Gene Epstein & Hisako Kobayashi's Apartment
55 Great Jones Street
Reception Details:
8:00 PM: Doors Open
Food & drink are included with a Reception ticket
Please note: in order to attend the reception you must purchase a Debate + Reception ticket.
If you register to watch the livestream, you will receive the link to join the livestream on the date of the event in an email from The Soho Forum with the subject "Livestream Link for Tonight's Debate." If you do not receive that email by 2 pm ET, please check your spam folder.
ALL tickets must be reserved in advance.
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