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Education

Should All Government Support for Higher Education Be Abolished? Watch the Live Debate.

Bryan Caplan vs. Edward Glaeser at the Soho Forum.

Jim Epstein | 5.14.2018 6:30 PM

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All government support of higher education should be abolished.

That's the resolution at tonight's Soho Forum/Reason debate, featuring George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan (arguing the affirmative) and Harvard economist Edward Glaeser. The opening act is comedian Dave Smith, host of the podcast Part of the Problem.

Watch the livestream below (the event starts at 6:30pm ET), and post questions for the participants in the Facebook comments. We'll read a couple of the best at the event.

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Jim Epstein is executive editor of Reason.

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