VS.
NOT this Wednesday (as would normally be the case) but rather on Wednesday, June 20 (8pm):
Downtown performance artist, art star, and nerd “Rev. Jen” Miller throws down with (formerly) Upper East Side author, sometime bartender, and libertarian Katherine Taylor (whose new novel is Rules for Saying Goodbye) on the gut-wrenching topic of romantic […]
As if my recent blog entry denouncing feminism weren’t controversial enough, two talented comedian-debaters will tackle the question “Does the Beauty Industry Oppress Women?” at the next of our monthly Debates at Lolita Bar.
Charles Star argues “yes” and Jen Dziura argues “no.”
That’s tomorrow (Wednesday), May 2, at 8pm, at 266 Broome St. (basement level) at […]
Violin-playing Mitchell Johson will argue yes, occasional pop producer Christopher Maguire will argue no, and the audience will vote. (In addition to organizing these events, I host, and the very same man who is the able webmaster of ToddSeavey.com, Michel “The Brain” Evanchik, moderates.)
The clash of the rockers and the rococo happens tomorrow night […]
At Lolita Bar, Wednesday, March 7 (at 8pm):
Brian Doherty discusses his new book Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern Libertarian Movement (he is also the author of This Is Burning Man and an editor at Reason magazine), on the basement level of Lolita Bar, 266 Broome St. at the corner of Allen […]
This past Wednesday, our monthly Debate at Lolita Bar was about climate change, and it pitted Gore-trained Andrew McKeon against Chuck Blake, a friend of mine who has been a thoroughgoing skeptic on many topics — only recently adding catastrophic climate change to the list — since we were friends in high school back in […]
This week brings not only Groundhog Day, when we ask whether we’ll see six more weeks of winter (get the facts: http://www.groundhog.org/faq/ ), but also the release of a major UN climate report suggesting we may face weather problems much harsher than that in the future — so we’re staging a live, no-holds-barred debate in […]
This year saw the monthly debate society I host, which meets the first Wednesday of each month at Lolita Bar in Manhattan, confront a relatively timeless question: “Is Chastity a Good Idea for Singles?” Dawn Eden, who has become a gung-ho Catholic since I dated her five years ago, wrote a book arguing “yes” […]
Hear Thrill of the Chaste author Dawn Eden ( http://ThrilloftheChaste.com ) and I Love You, Let’s Meet author Virginia Vitzthum ( http://www.virginiavitzthum.com/ilylm ) debate the question “Is Chastity a Good Idea for Singles?” in the basement of Lolita Bar (266 Broome St. at Allen St., one block south and three west of the Delancey St. […]
One last time before fissioning into two separate, mighty entities, Jinx and the Lolita Bar Debates I host summon you (and suggest those who receive these e-mails only via the Jinx Yahoo list, with “[jinxlist]” at the start of the subject header, e-mail me to be on the henceforth separate debate e-list), especially interested Louisianans […]
Wednesday, Nov. 8, join a free-for-all discussion of “What the Election Results Mean” and what happens next, featuring (Rockefeller-Republican blogger) Jonathan Funke, (Democratic activist) Dvd Avins, and anyone from any faction who’d care to join our audience — and be heard.
(NOTE: We’re not gathering the first Wednesday of the month this time but rather the […]
It’s a special JINX/RLC/IHS combo-event Wed., Oct. 4 (at 8pm) as the monthly debate run by the (non-partisan) Jinx Society is hybridized with a gathering for all New York-area libertarians — and the whole thing is timed to coincide with the New York Film Festival.
It’s two levels of intellectual adventure at Lolita Bar on the […]
Jonathan Leaf and Richard Ryan debate the question “Was Israel Right to Invade Lebanon?” (with Michel “The Brain” Evanchik moderating and Todd Seavey hosting) at next week’s Jinx Athenaeum, Wednesday, Sept. 6 at 8pm, downstairs at Lolita bar (free admission, cash bar, a.c.) on the northeast corner of Broome and Allen on Manhattan’s Lower East […]
YES: Tim Carney, author of The Big Rip-Off: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money. NO: Michel “The Brain” Evanchik, of Evanchik.net. Moderator: Todd Seavey, Jinx Rational Agent and editor of HealthFactsAndFears.com.
This Wednesday, August 2 at 8pm, downstairs at Lolita bar on the corner of Broome and Allen St. on […]
The day after the U.S. celebrates its birth, join us for a debate on a question that touches on fundamental issues of liberty and security in the aftermath of a crisis, whether the government should gaze through a scanner darkly at Superman, and whether freedom fighters should make a last stand against government even at […]
Chris Bischof and Zahra Joudi debate the question “Should the U.S.
Military Intervene in Iran?” (with Michel “The Brain” Evanchik
moderating and Todd Seavey hosting) at the next Jinx Athenaeum,
Wednesday, June 7 at 8pm, downstairs at Lolita bar (free admission,
cash bar) on the northeast corner of Broome and Allen on Manhattan’s
Lower East Side, one block south and […]
