How To Host the Great Substack Debates
Proposed debate matchups between prominent Substack writers with opposing viewpoints - can Substack become the UFC of intellectuals?
Comrades: Let the great Substack debates begin.
When Substack Notes launched, I wrote an open letter to Substack leadership to protect free speech. We should all be grateful that they have stuck to that mission and continue to empower creators. They are well on their way to becoming the most meritocratic marketplace of ideas and memes. Debates raise the stakes to the next level. I would pay $10 to see any of the matchups below and am confident many others would too. Then I’d bet on the first name winning each contest, with a side bet that the second name would refuse to debate. Can you reason with a demoralized person? What matchups would you like to see?
I enjoyed a debate with Anna Cole about shifting voting preferences from Trump over Biden to Harris over Trump. If you or a writer you know would like to debate me, I am all for it. Please DM or comment below.
The heavyweight bout between a real journalist and a regime propagandist who was fired for lying, yet continues to rake in millions from gullible readers every year.
Michael Shellenberger vs. Taylor Lorenz
Classic free speech liberal trying to reason with a demoralized censorship leftist.
The Science -
and vs. andData-driven scientists schooling fear-driven propagandists. In order to participate in this debate, Jetelina and Topol must get boosted 10 times and wear masks.
The Climate -
vs.Climate rationalist talking a climate alarmist off the ledge.
The Wonk-Off - Noah Smith vs. Matt Yglesias
The two smuggest lefty policy wonks figure out the best way for us to reach utopia. Side bet: The word AKSHUALLY is used over 100 times per hour.
Principled anti-war leftists wrecking neocon warmongers.
The Warzone -
vs. , , andA well researched anon poking holes on Western war propagandists.
Academia -
and vs. Ruth Ben-Ghiat andAcademic reformers take on academics who believe everything they don’t like is fascism. If the news is fake, imagine how fake the history is.
Economics -
vs. : Real economist against a regime narrative economist.
Culture war skirmish between the guy who coined the term luxury beliefs and a woman who is the cringe clapter embodiment of a luxury belief holder.
China observers try to figure out what is really going on behind the Great Firewall and how our elites are not that different from theirs.
Which way, young women - Femininity and motherhood or Abortion, Every Day?
The TDS Thunderdome
Jeff Teidrich, Steven Beschloss, Judd Legum, Seth Abramson, Jay Kuo, Joyce Vance, and Mary Trump have a mudslinging contest in the asylum. Who can spew all the most virulent anti-Trump anti-MAGAt slurs and let Orange Man live in their heads the most? It will be a human centipede of word salad regurgitation from one mouth into another’s rectum.
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$10 would be cheap. I'd pay more. Make it happen.
Yuri,
This is a business model suggestion that substack may want to consider. Substack platform has without a doubt become the X Public Square of the free, longer written expression. However the 10% financial model mainly benefits substack and not publishers and subscribers. Very few publishers can reach the number of paid subscribers that TheFreePress has. I would like to subscribe to at least 20 publishers but avg. of $8 each per month becomes financially not viable for some or maybe many of us. There has to be a way for substack to charge 1 fee and subscribers to choose a number of paid publishers and substack to share this revenue with the selected publishers. If it makes sense to you, please pass it on to substack.