A blurring, buzzing week at COP 15 for me and my colleague Kyle Crawford. And while the Australian in the Koala Bear suit doesn’t quite reflect the gravity of the event, it hopefully illustrates some of the (mostly positive) circus atmosphere. Kyle and I arrived on Sunday evening and things have been nearly non stop …

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The question posed by Asher Susser of Tel-Aviv University in the first discussion of the day. His answer is “yes.” You’ll have to watch the program to hear his argument.

Finding myself with a camera and an open weekend in the UK I headed up to Oxford to film the 2008 International Conference “Challenges Facing Israel at 60″ at Oxford’s Said Business School. The conference organizer just announced FORA and its embeddable player to a packed audience in Said’s main auditorium. This isn’t FORA’s first …

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Hours after I picked Trevar up at the Denver airport two weeks ago today we kicked off a two week conventioneering binge with Frank Foer and Eve Fairbanks of The New Republic at the Ritz Carlton (courtesy of the lovely and generous Vivian Deuschl, VP of Public Affairs for the RC and now a FORA …

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That’s the essential thought in Bill Clinton’s concluding remarks on the sixth day of the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival. It also happens to be one of the pillars of the FORA vision. We at FORA love debate, but dialog is something different and arguably more elevated. Debate is often (though certainly not always) an exercise …

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On June 5 FORA will join TNR, host the 6th & I Synagogue and co-sponsor Politics & Prose in Washington DC to host the first event in what will become a series. The description is below. We’re really pleased to be working with such quality partners to create this sort of genuinely meaningful live event. …

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Chatham House – AKA the Royal Institute of International Relations in London – reached out to its membership last week to publicize its FORA.tv channel. CH is one of the world’s oldest and most esteemed forums for public discussion (and the originators of the famous “Chatham House Rules”). The press release posted to the CH …

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Real debate (as opposed to presidential clown shows with eight people on a stage offering 15-second sound bytes in responding to the most complicated problems of the day) serves the public better than any other form of public discourse, here’s why: when there are two or more intelligent advocates of differing positions, each in command …

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Trevar and I both made it London this week and are now present with cameras running at the Battle of Ideas hosted by the Institute of Ideas at the Royal College of Art at Hyde Park. There’s a massive buzz of energy about the place and the event- a series of seventy debates running across …

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