Ricki Gurwitz
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138 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 22 May
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We struggled.
I mean, let's talk to the audience because we like to kind of let them into the conversation here.
You really struggled with that side of the debate for a couple reasons.
One, that the non-interventionists, especially in the orbit of Donald Trump, have become, in our view—
radicalized to the extent to which there are certain voices and we can think of them um you know out there on the fringes of the uh the right-wing media sphere that you know we don't want to have on our stage because we don't think they're particularly credible and in some cases they have pretty noxious views when it comes to issues of particularly issues around uh race and uh
and frankly, in some cases with some people, you know, statements that are openly anti-Semitic.
So it was interesting that that was really a struggle to find a credible voice that had, you know, some institutional heft behind them and hadn't kind of, at least from our perspective, the type of civil and substantive conversations we want to organize the debates would
kind of kicked themselves out of our orbit because they were just so radical in their views on American foreign policy, on kind of American isolationism.
That group has now coalesced around the likes of the Candace Owens, the Nick Fuentes, the Tucker Carlsons in many cases.
And for us, just to level with our audience, like that's just a bridge too far.
We're not going to platform those types of people because indirectly that means endorsing a lot of other views which are just, in our view, kind of noxious.
Yeah, understandably.
And look, we platform that argument in this debate, and we think that's a valid one.
It's when that argument veers into claims of either racial superiority on the part of white Americans, which it does among some elements of MAGA,
or it veers into not simply a criticism of Israel, which is legitimate, but open musings about Jewish conspiracies that are controlling the world or controlling the United States.
Those are views that we're going to draw a red line
And yeah, some people listening may say, you know, is that the Munk Debates promoting free speech?
Well, we think it's a balance between free and open debate and civility and substance.
And we're always trying to thread that needle.
I think we did that successfully with John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, both who are super respected academics.
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