Debate: ‘Do open borders benefit humanity by reducing poverty and boosting the economy?’ with Bryan Caplan and Sohrab Ahmari

Wednesday, October 9 at 5:30 p.m.

Location: Crum Auditorium, RRH 1.400

Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author. Caplan wrote The Myth of the Rational Voter, named “the best political book of the year” by the New York TimesSelfish Reasons to Have More KidsThe Case Against EducationOpen Borders (co-authored with SMBC’s Zach Weinersmith), Labor Econ Versus the WorldHow Evil Are Politicians?Don’t Be a FeministVoters As Mad Scientists, and You Will Not Stampede Me. Caplan is also the editor and chief writer for Bet On It, the blog hosted by the Salem Center for Policy at the University of Texas. He has published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Newsweek, Atlantic, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, and Intelligenceblogged for EconLog from 2005-2022, and appeared on ABC, BBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN.

Sohrab Ahmari is a founder and editor of Compact. Previously, he spent nearly a decade at News Corp., as op-ed editor of the New York Post and as a columnist and editor with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London. In addition to those publications, his writing has appeared in The New York TimesThe Washington PostThe New RepublicThe SpectatorChronicle of Higher Education, Times Literary Supplement, Dissent, and The American Conservative, for which he is a contributing editor. His books include The Unbroken Thread (2021) and Tyranny, Inc. (2023), both published by Penguin Random House.

Following the conclusion of the event, there will be an open reception with food and non-alcoholic beverages.

Register for the event here.