An Intellectual Debate

Here is some classic video of Noam Chomsky debating William F. Buckley in 1969 (that year is what the poster of the video said when it took place). And don’t quote me on this but I believe this is from the show Buckley hosted on PBS called “Firing Line”.



One comment to the video (from youtube.com) I thought put it well:

It's hard to believe there was a time when American political debate was more than just a moderate and right-winger yelling sound bites over each other for five minutes.