Ricki Gurwitz

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138 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 22 May

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The Munk Debates Podcast · Bonus Episode: behind the scenes at The Munk Debate on Foreign Wars · 22 May 2026 podcast

and thinkers in their own right, but who are also very critical of American use of military and economic power abroad.

Ricky, we have a clip, I believe, of what you selected of what you thought was like one of the most kind of interesting moments of the debate.

And I thought we could play that and then kind of you could explain why you thought

this kind of catalyzed precisely why we do these debates and in a sense express what we hope this debate would reveal to our audiences.

So let's listen to that clip now.

That was just one of many kind of feisty exchanges.

I'll just say as a debate moderator, there's nothing I like more when I get to stand back and watch the debaters go at each other.

So why did you choose that clip as being kind of an exemplar of the type of debate that you hope that we would have had with this contest?

Israel genocide featured prominently in the debate with Mearsheimer and Walt being explicit that they felt that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.

They're privy as senior members.

Mike Pompeo's case, head of the CIA.

Yeah, assume the responsibility for it.

Let's just finally talk about the audience.

I found it was one of our more raucous debates.

I was surprised at the extent to which the audience was loud and engaged, which is great, but also really divided in the hall on all the big issues that were discussed.

What do you make of that?

I feel like our audience has really changed in interesting ways.

And over the last five years, you know, before COVID, I think we were maybe a slightly more buttoned down debate series of the, like a lot of people from Toronto's financial district.

And it was a kind of an evening of kind of learning and reflection.

And now the last few debates we've had Ricky, well, the last one had some protesters, but it's,

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