Soho Forum Debate: Elizabeth Nolan Brown vs. Madeleine Kearns

Wed Dec 30 2020 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm

Subculture Theater | New York

The Soho Forum
Publisher/HostThe Soho Forum
Soho Forum Debate: Elizabeth Nolan Brown vs. Madeleine Kearns Tuesday, July 14, 2020
 
Elizabeth Nolan Brown vs. Madeleine Kearns
 
Resolution:
All laws prohibiting consensual sex work should be abolished.
 

For the affirmative: 
 
Elizabeth Nolan Brown is an associate editor at Reason magazine, where her work has focused mainly on the intersection of sex, tech, civil liberties, and public policy. She is also co-founder of the nonprofit group Feminists for Liberty. Brown has published in outlets ithat include The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Buzzfeed, The Daily Beast, Playboy, Fox News, Politico, Time, Spectator U.S., The Week, and the Cato Institute's Libertarianism.org. A native of Cincinnati, she lives with her husband in Washington, D.C. 
 

For the negative: 
 
Madeleine Kearns is a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism at National Review. A native of Glasgow, Scotland, Kearns was a 2017 summer intern at The Spectator and became the first intern on record to contribute a cover story. In August 2019 she wrote a much-discussed cover story for National Review, entitled "Don't Legalize Prostitution," inspired by her experience talking to street prostitutes in Los Angeles on one of the most notorious prostitution tracks in the United States. She has also written investigative cover stories on gender policies as they relate to children both for The Spectator and National Review. Her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Catholic Herald, and Heterodox Academy.
 
 
 
 
Cash bar opens: 5:45pm
Meeting convenes: 6:30pm
Reception: 8:15pm
 
Tickets must be reserved in advance.

Event Venue

Subculture Theater, 45 Bleecker St, New York, United States

Tickets

USD 6.00 to USD 24.00

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