No. 102 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Founding editor, Jacobin; president, The Nation
Bhaskar Sunkara is the founding editor of Jacobin and the president of The Nation.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Bhaskar Sunkara's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Took the socialist case to the Soho Forum against Gene Epstein.
Sunkara wrote The Socialist Manifesto and co-wrote The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World.
He is a former vice-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.
On the record
2018
October 15, 2018
Formal debate
Against Gene Epstein · The Soho Forum, New York
Sunkara argued that socialism does more than capitalism to bring freedom to ordinary people.
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