Arguing for the motion is the controversial British M.P. and former cabinet minister, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg. He will be joined by the American writer and columnist who has shaped a generation’s thinking on the important issues of our time: George F. Will.

Opposing the motion is U.K. journalist, self-avowed communist and popular leftist thinker, Ash Sarkar. Her debating partner is the disruptive and thought-provoking American social conservative, Sohrab Ahmari, author of the bestseller Tyranny Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty.

“Free trade, the perennial fetish of every liberal since the 18th century, correlates with the destruction of working class life.”
-Sohrab Ahmari

“Classic liberals became the driving force against inherited hierarchies, hierarchies of wealth, hierarchies of birth, and hierarchies of ecclesiastical support.”
-George F. Will

“If you believe in liberalism, you believe in freedom of the individual, you believe in freedom of association, freedom of speech, and free economies.”
-Jacob Rees-Mogg

“Liberal and so-called democratic states in the West have presided over an extraordinary impoverishment of their domestic populations, but they always have money for wars.”
-Ash Sarkar