Always intelligent and provocative, as well as disciplined and civil. A stimulating way to spend an evening.
– The Wall Street Journal
“A salon for movers and shakers, writers and thinkers.”
– The New York Times
Pointed Political Debate Minus All the Shouting.
– The New York Times
From wherever you stood, the opposing side offered respectable, credible views. In today’s fractured culture the evening struck a blow for civility.
– The Huffington Post
It’s a real public service to have debates that bring top-tier participants together and add the sizzle of prize fight competition to a discussion of issues of first-order importance.
– The Atlantic
Open to Debate has done something rare in New York create an event that people feel they must go to.
– Fareed Zakaria
A throwback to the days of traveling orators, to a time of greater civility, when people actually bothered to listen to the other side, to consider the validity of its position.
– The Globe and Mail