The Sheen Center

18 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012

Doors open at 6:00 PM
Meeting Convenes on the Main Stage: 6:30 PM
Reception offsite: 8:00 PM

Moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

For the affirmative:

Terence Kealey is a British biochemist and historian of science and economics. He is the former vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham and the author of The Economic Laws of Scientific Research and Sex, Science and Profits: How People Evolved To Make Money. He is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, where he published the recent white paper, Mission Lost: How NIH Leaders Stole Its Promise to America.

For the negative:

Jeffrey Flier is an endocrinologist and an award-winning researcher on the causes of obesity and diabetes. He is a Harvard University distinguished service professor and the Higginson professor of physiology and medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was the 21st dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University and served as a clinical associate at the National Institutes of Health.

The Sheen Center

18 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012

Doors open at 6:00 PM
Meeting Convenes on the Main Stage: 6:30 PM
Reception offsite: 8:00 PM

Moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

For the affirmative:

Zephyr Teachout is an attorney and professor of law at Fordham Law School, where she focuses on the intersection of corporate power and political power. She is the author of two books, Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money and Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United. She also served as special advisor and senior counsel for economic justice at the New York Attorney General's Office.

For the negative:

John Ketcham is director of cities and a legal policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His areas of expertise include housing, local elections, infrastructure, and parental rights, particularly in New York City and State. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The American Mind, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Newsweek, and City Journal.