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O direito de ser esquecido

O direito de ser esquecido

Rick Abath era o segurança no Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum na ocasião do maior roubo de obras de arte da história dos Estados Unidos. Dois homens vestidos de policiais, portando distintivos, bateram à porta do museu, exigindo que Rick abrisse, quando ele o fez, eles anunciaram o assalto. Vendaram-lhe os olhos e o algemaram. Eles foram embora com o equivalente a 500 mil dólares em obras de…

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The Debate Continues: Ban College Football?

Star rookie Chris Borland’s retirement is causing reverberations this last week, leading many to ask, are football’s risks worth its rewards? In 2012, Intelligence Squared U.S. debated the risks of college football with Malcolm Gladwell, Buzz Bissinger, Tim Green and Jason Whitlock. The debate sold out so quickly and garnered so much pre-debate publicity, even we were taken by surprise. Once again, a growing concern over safety has put football’s future back in the spotlight.http://robertrosenkranz.com/the-debate-continues-ban-college-football/

http://robertrosenkranz.com/the-debate-continues-ban-college-football/

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“Russia Is Becoming Our Enemy Again” (2007) and “Russia Is A Marginal Power” (2014)

Russia: An Evolving Debate

In this recent blogpost, we examine two Intelligence Squared US debates: one in 2007 entitled “Russia Is Becoming Our Enemy Again” and the more recent 2014 debate “Russia Is A Marginal Power”.

We see in the span of less than a decade that Intelligence Squared U.S. audiences have changed perspectives and gives credence to the argument that we must recognize the gravity of the Russian threat (and deal with it). 

Read how perspective has changed over Russia over seven years and how our assessment of Putin's Russia may have made a clear shift:

http://robertrosenkranz.com/russia-evolving-debate/

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Is higher education failing its students by censoring debate?

Does higher education have a liberal bias problem? 

 This animation (via debater Greg Lukianoff) lays out the case against campus speech codes. Don’t miss the Intelligence Squared US debate tomorrow (an initiative of the Rosenkranz Foundation), Tuesday, Feb. 23, and let them know where you stand:

smarturl.it/CampusSpeechVote

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Debate: LIBERALS ARE STIFLING INTELLECTUAL DIVERSITY ON CAMPUS

I'm happy to announce that Intelligence Squared US is coming back to DC! This Tuesday, Feb. 24,  join us at The George Washington University to debate the state of debate in higher education.

Are liberals stifling intellectual diversity on campus?  

Read more about the debate here:

smarturl.it/CampusSpeechMain

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Debate Introduction: SuperPACs: Is Money In Politics Still Overregulated?

Although it was just announced at Mitt Romneywill not be running for the 2016 race, surely campaign finance reform will remain an issue for the next Presidential election. Robert Rosenkranz frames a recent Intelligence Squared US debate on this issue of SuperPACs: Is Money In Politics Still Overregulated? Watch his introduction here: http://youtu.be/W412d6252j8 #IQ2US debate with: For the Motion: David Keating President, Center for Competitive Politics Jacob Sullum Senior Editor, Reason Magazine Against the Motion: Trevor Potter President and General Counsel of the Campaign Legal Center Jonathan Soros Senior Fellow, Roosevelt Institute and co-founder of Friends of Democracy Moderator: John Donvan Author & Correspondent for ABC News

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We've officially kicked off the  spring Intelligence Squared Season of 2015.

See the complete lineup here and cast your vote on the issues up for debate.

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Everyone seems to have enjoyed the new Rebuttal Round introduced in last week's Intelligence Squared USdebate on : "Amazon is the Reader's Friend"

We’re excited to debut our first Rebuttal Round in which debaters are given just 30 seconds each to go head-to-head on a single point. The inaugural topic: Is traditional publishing a tyranny? See more from “Amazon Is The Reader’s Friend” on IQ2TV:smarturl.it/AmazonIQ2TV