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Attendee Comments NYSALON 171 views The NY Salon proudly announces Reflections on the Future, a public debate featuring renowned authors Russell Jacoby, Richard Sennett, and Frank Furedi, and moderated by WNY...
Russell Jacoby NYSALON 999 views The NY Salon proudly announces Reflections on the Future, a public debate featuring renowned authors Russell Jacoby, Richard Sennett, and Frank Furedi, and moderated by WNY...
Richard Sennett NYSALON 5,316 views The NY Salon proudly announces Reflections on the Future, a public debate featuring renowned authors Russell Jacoby, Richard Sennett, and Frank Furedi, and moderated by WNY...
Frank Furedi NYSALON 1,546 views The NY Salon proudly announces Reflections on the Future, a public debate featuring renowned authors Russell Jacoby, Richard Sennett, and Frank Furedi, and moderated by WNY...
Intro By Alan Miller NYSALON 109 views Alan Miller Co-Director of the NY Salon
Rob Pollock - NY Salon - Culture of Corruption? NYSALON 151 views THE NEW YORK SALON in association with New York Society for Ethical Culture - Is There a 'Culture of Corruption' in Politics and Business?
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Today intellectual life seems to end with college graduation. Political discussion in the 'real' world is pragmatic and focused on narrow policy questions. When debate touches on matters of value and principle, it tends to degenerate into name-calling and mutual vilification. The NY Salon aims to provide a distinct environment where ideas are robustly debated. It welcomes disagreement rather than trying to sweep it under the rug. At the NY Salon, participants have a right to hold an opinion but they also have a duty to express and defend it. It is only through open debate that we come to know and develop our own opinions and become able to draw conclusions about the pressing issues of our time. To quote John Stuart Mill, mankind is 'capable of being improved by free and equal discussion.' This is the spirit that animates the NY Salon.

Our approach is to draw in participants from a wide range of backgrounds. People attending the NY Salon come from the media, business, the arts and academia, and critically minded people from a variety of backgrounds. The Salon discusses both fiction and non-fiction, from authors as diverse as Jonathan Safran Foer and Thomas Szasz.

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At NY Salon, we believe passionately in free speech and discussing ideas robustly. We agree with the quote generally attributed to Voltaire:

"I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it."
The spirit of the renaissance master, Leonardo da Vinci, perhaps should live on in our own attempt to navigate the contemporary landscape:

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast."
The clash of ideas is at the heart of the NY Salon; the last word can go on this to Oscar Wilde, ever the wit...

"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."

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