Wed., July 1 (8pm): “Is America Economically Doomed?” with:
Managing editor of TakiMag Richard Spencer arguing yes.
Journalist and political author Bryan Harris arguing no.
Hosted by Todd Seavey and moderated by Michel Evanchik.
Free admission, cash bar. Basement level of Lolita Bar at 266 Broome St. at the corner of Allen St. on the Lower East Side of […]
Here, thanks to tech-savvy Ken Silber, is audio from our debate about Zionism two nights ago. (Ken notes that the audience vote, which went against Zionism, might have been ever so slightly skewed by a crucial misquoted stat about land ownership in Israel.)
This week has been a big one for Middle East news (and […]
No, Lolita Bar isn’t becoming the U.N. for a night (that’s up in the East 40s, we’re on the Lower East Side), but next week we are broaching one of the most controversial geopolitical questions, “Is Zionism Racism?”:
Wednesday, June 3 (8pm):
Blogger at SaifHouse Saif Ammous argues yes.
Blogger at Commentary Abe Greenwald argues no.
Hosted by Todd […]
ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT, the species-spanning battle of the century:
Wed., May 6 (8pm).
Law professor and lawyer with the State of New York Mariann Sullivan arguing yes.
Freelance writer Justin Shubow (Master’s in Philosophy from U. Michigan, J.D. from Yale) arguing no.
Hosted by Todd Seavey and moderated by Michel Evanchik.
Free admission, cash bar. Basement level of […]
Wed., April 1 (8pm):
Rabbi Simcha Weinstein (author of Up, Up, and Oy Vey! and Shtick Shift, about Jewish comics and Jewish comics, respectively) arguing yes
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Skeptic Austin Dacey (Center for Inquiry rep, Skeptical Inquirer contributor, and author of The Secular Conscience) arguing no.
A (real) April Fool’s Day social-philosophical smackdown, hosted by Todd Seavey and moderated […]
I think last night’s debate went well, and in this nostalgia-inducing, time-tripping week of Watchmen’s release, it’s worth pausing to note that this month brings the second anniversary of my regular blog entries (preceded by a few experimental ones) and the fourth anniversary of me hosting (and Michel Evanchik regularly moderating) the Debates at Lolita […]
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This Wednesday, March 4 (at 8pm), a clash of titans — namely speculative-fiction-admiring Scott Nybakken and retro-rocketed Dan Raspler (a current and former DC Comics editor, respectively).
They’ll thrash out the tricky question of whether sci-fi should reach, like Arthur C. Clarke, for the hazy outlines of boldly-imagined plausible futures — or draw upon […]
With the government, intended by the Framers to be small and humble, now funneling a trillion dollars through itself and into the hands of its allies and supplicants…with pop culture iconography fusing with state-worship to create an ostensible messiah-president…with self-interested elites from academia to Nobel committees now oblivious to the difference between compassion and centralized […]
Arguing yes: entrepreneur Mitch Golden.
Arguing no: lawyer Raymond Dowd.
Hosted by Todd Seavey and moderated by Michel Evanchik.
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 8pm.
Basement level, 266 Broome St. at Allen St. on the Lower East Side, one block south and three west of the Delancey St. F J M Z subway stop.
And January is this blog’s “Month of Liberty […]
This blog’s “Month of Feminism” starts today, mere days after Thanksgiving, which has probably left more than one feminist reader feeling fat — and thus oppressed by the patriarchy.
But before we can move on to a careful dissection of that unwarranted feeling of oppression, another food-related debate is upon us — and you should […]
Five notes on the election — and our big day-after panel about it:
I. The Debate
Attend “Yesterday Was the Election: What’s Next?” — this coming Wednesday, November 5, at 8pm (basement level of 266 Broome St. at the corner of Broome and Allen St., one block south of the Delancey St. subway stop on the F, […]
It seems like only yesterday (but was actually the day before yesterday) that the “Month of Sex” climaxed with a debate about sex at Lolita Bar — and yet our October debate is fast upon us.
October is the “Month of Horror” here at ToddSeavey.com, and some might look with horror upon career politicians, as Mayor […]
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Sunday, Sept. 28, 8pm, in the giddy climax of the “Month of Sex,” find out if the current state of our affairs is:
GOOD, as argues Stephanie Sellars, sex columnist, blogger, and actress from The Fold…
OR EVIL, as testifies Anna Broadway, Christian blogger-memoirist, and author of Sexless in the City, now out in paperback.
Hosted […]
Tonight’s our big Debate at Lolita Bar on the heated Israeli/Palestinian conflict (with Muhammed Rum vs. Hannah Meyers).
Last month, though, saw our convivial panel discussion (too flippant for HuffingtonPost’s Melissa Lafsky) about women selling their eggs, and nothing goes better with fertilized eggs than Weiner pictures — pictures of our lovely panel by J.D. Weiner, […]
Two things: karaoke on Aug. 5 and an important debate on Aug. 13.
FIRST: Join me — and friendly ex Koli (whose birthday, like mine, is this week) — for karaoke at Iggy’s Karaoke, on Second Ave. between 75th and 76th St., tomorrow (Aug. 5), arriving at 8pm to claim tables to more easily sing when […]
