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Firing Line was a long-running PBS television series featuring political debates and interviews with prominent figures. Hosted by William F. Buckley Jr., it offered insightful discussions on American politics, foreign policy, and cultural issues. The show’s notable format and Buckley's sharp questio...

Argument Wars is an educational browser game developed by iCivics, an organization founded by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Released around 2010, the game casts students as attorneys representing either side of actual landmark Supreme Court cases, such as Brown v. Board of E...

Climategate refers to the 2009 release of private email exchanges from researchers at the University of East Anglia. These communications sparked considerable debate regarding data analysis practices and research methodologies within climate science. The controversy fueled public skepticism about es...

Pardon the Interruption is an American sports talk and debate television program broadcast on ESPN. Debuting in 2001, the show features Washington Post columnists Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, who debate the day's most prominent sports news headlines. The program is structured around rapid-fir...

Best of Enemies is a 2015 documentary directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville chronicling the televised exchanges between novelist Gore Vidal and conservative intellectual William F. Buckley Jr. during ABC's coverage of the 1968 political conventions. ABC News paired the two as commentators to...

Heresy is a BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell in which contestants are tasked with arguing persuasively against widely accepted beliefs or received wisdom, with the wittiest contrarian argument winning.

Heber Doust Curtis was an American astronomer known for research on nebulae, galaxies, and astronomical instrumentation. In the 1920 Great Debate with Harlow Shapley, Curtis defended the view that spiral nebulae were separate stellar systems beyond the Milky Way, a position later supported by observ...

The Moral Maze is a BBC Radio 4 debate program that premiered in 1990 and is presented by journalist Michael Buerk. Each episode examines a contemporary ethical issue raised by current events, with regular panelists of differing political and philosophical persuasions—including figures such as Micha...

"Ce soir (ou jamais !)" was a French cultural and political talk show broadcast on the public television network France 3. Hosted by journalist Frédéric Taddeï, the program aired from 2006 to 2016, featuring round-table debates on contemporary social issues, philosophy, and the arts. The show was no...

Around the Horn is an American sports talk show that has aired on ESPN since 2002. The program features a panel of four sports journalists who debate current sports news stories in a competitive, timed format. Participants are awarded or deducted points by the host, Tony Reali, based on the quality...

After Dark was a Channel 4 late-night open-ended discussion programme airing from 1987 to 1991, notable for its unscripted all-night format in which intellectuals, politicians, and activists debated without a fixed running time.

Rocket Science is a 2007 American independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeffrey Blitz, marking his narrative feature debut after the Academy Award-nominated documentary Spellbound (2002). The film stars Reece Thompson as Hal Hefner, a New Jersey teenager with a stutter who is recruit...

The Debaters is a Canadian comedy program produced for CBC Radio in which comedians argue opposing sides of deliberately humorous propositions. Each debate uses the structure and language of formal public argument while rewarding jokes, improvisation, and rhetorical performance rather than factual a...

Q+A is an Australian live television discussion program broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation since 2008. Each episode places politicians, experts, advocates, artists, and other public figures before a studio audience whose members ask questions about politics, policy, culture, and cu...

Smash Boom Best is a debate podcast for children and families from the Brains On! Universe. Each episode places two topics, such as animals, foods, games, or fictional characters, in opposition and gives debaters an opportunity to argue for their side using facts, examples, and persuasive reasoning....

The Kempton-Wace Letters is a 1903 epistolary novel written jointly by Jack London and Anna Strunsky. It takes the form of correspondence between two men, Herbert Wace and Dane Kempton, whose letters debate competing views of love, marriage, and human nature. The book is notable for presenting a sus...

Question Time is a BBC political debate programme that began on BBC One in 1979. Each episode brings politicians and other public figures before a live studio audience, whose questions are answered without a fully scripted exchange. The programme focuses on current affairs, public policy, and politi...

Skip and Shannon: Undisputed was an American sports debate program broadcast by Fox Sports 1 beginning in 2016. It paired sports commentator Skip Bayless with former NFL tight end Shannon Sharpe, with Joy Taylor serving as the original moderator, and built episodes around opinion-led discussion of m...

Highly Questionable was a daily sports talk program produced and broadcast by ESPN. It premiered in 2011 and developed a format that mixed discussion of current sports with comedy, personal debate, and occasional topics from popular culture. The program was associated with host Dan Le Batard and his...

First Take is an American sports debate program broadcast by ESPN. It began in 2007 and is built around weekday discussion of current sports stories, especially issues involving major U.S. professional and college leagues. The format places commentators in direct disagreement, with arguments and opi...

The Herd with Colin Cowherd is an American sports-talk program hosted by Colin Cowherd. The show began on ESPN Radio in 2004 and moved to Fox Sports and Premiere Networks in September 2015, where Fox Sports announced it as a three-hour weekday program carried simultaneously on FS1 and the Fox Sports...

Touche pas à mon poste! is a French television talk and panel program presented by Cyril Hanouna. It began in 2010 and is built around discussions of television, media coverage, celebrity news, and current entertainment topics, with Hanouna joined by regular columnists and guests. The program is ass...