Battle of Ideas
Read live debates
Contested claims with the strongest case on each side — sourced, red-teamed, and honestly labeled.
Open Battle →Reigniting the Enlightenment
Where the best arguments win
Serious debates on contested claims — both sides steelmanned, sources attached, uncertainty shown. Pick a question worth your full attention.
6 live debates88 steelmanned arguments
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Debates worth your time
Open any claim to read both columns side by side — arguments tiered, challenged, and labeled for what we know and don't.
Social media does more harm than good to teenagers
Net effect on 13–19-year-olds in developed countries: mental health, development, social life, opportunity. The comparison is against an adolescence with substantially less social-media use, not against zero technology.
Remote work increases overall productivity
Knowledge-work productivity at the level of firms and economies — output per worker-hour and organizational effectiveness, not individual preference or wellbeing alone. Post-2020 evidence preferred.
Humans have free will
Whether humans have the kind of control over their choices that grounds moral responsibility. Libertarian free will and compatibilism argue FOR under different definitions — definitional clarity is part of the contest — versus hard determinism and hard incompatibilism AGAINST.
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Essential Concepts
Learn the vocabulary
Steelman, red team, assumption archaeology — the moves behind rigorous thinking, explained clearly.
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Practice the moves
Guided exercises to sharpen how you argue, listen, and change your mind.
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How arguments are built
Steelmanned
Every argument is the strongest version of its side — never a straw man.
Sourced
Load-bearing claims link to evidence you can open and check.
Red-teamed
Independent adversarial passes stress-test what holds up.
Neutral
No votes, no side taken. The conclusion is yours.