William Galston
William Galston and Nick Eberstadt Debate Entitlements at New School’s John Tishman Auditorium
October 23, 2012 | Eric Shapiro
Nicholas Eberstadt and William Galston
debate Entitlements at the New School in NYC
On Thursday, October 19th, esteemed scholars William Galston and Nick Eberstadt met at the New School’s John Tishman Auditorium to discuss entitlements, an issue that lies at the center of an American ideological battle that has raged for decades. Although billed as a “debate,” anyone who was expecting an event resembling Tuesday’s Obama-Romney brawl at Hofstra University probably left feeling disappointed. Instead, the two scholars confronted the audience with two drastically different perspectives on what has, over the course of the 20th century, come to define U.S. politics, particularly since the economy tanked in 2008.