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SUMMARY:An UNMUTED Debate: Bets Over Baghdad\, or Our Kalshi Crisis
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  your usual pattern\n\nDOORS OPEN AT 6:30\, SHOW STARTS AT 7. Drinks inclu
 ded in ticket.\nPolymarket processed $3.6 billion on a single presidential
  race. Kalshi just signed deals to pipe its odds into CNN and CNBC broadca
 sts. Bloomberg Terminal now carries prediction-market prices on the same s
 creens as oil futures. The contracts run 24/7 the way commodities do: pres
 idential races\, congressional control\, ceasefire dates\, war casualty co
 unts. A few clicks gets you long a candidate\, short a hostage release\, o
 r a position on whether a sitting senator survives the year. Kalshi's CEO 
 says the goal is to "financialize everything." He's most of the way there.
 \nSo: are prediction markets the most honest reading of civic life we've e
 ver built\, or the corruption of every outcome they touch?\nFor the prosec
 ution\, the answer is obvious. Some things shouldn't be priced. The moment
  you can profit from a war dragging on or an election going a particular w
 ay\, you've created an incentive to make it so...and handed the deepest po
 ckets in finance the keys to a democracy they were already overrepresented
  in. Markets that pay you for predicting an assassination attempt aren't p
 redicting anything. They're paying people to think about it. A republic th
 at lets citizens hedge against its own outcomes isn't a republic with bett
 er data. It's one that has quietly outsourced its civic life to traders.\n
 For the defense\, that's squeamishness dressed as principle. These markets
  aggregate information better than polls\, better than pundits\, better th
 an the press. They put skin in the game on claims that have lived conseque
 nce-free for decades. Banning them doesn't make wars or elections less con
 sequential\, it just hands price discovery to offshore platforms\, foreign
  capital\, and worse actors. Polymarket and Kalshi aren't corrupting civic
  life. They're the first honest reading of it we've ever had.\nOne side sa
 ys the market is the truth. The other says some truths shouldn't have a ma
 rket.\nLindsey Cormack\, PhD\, is an Associate Professor of Political Scie
 nce at Stevens Institute of Technology and the author of How to Raise a Ci
 tizen (And Why It's Up to You to Do It). She runs DCinbox\, which has arch
 ived every email Congress sends its constituents for over a decade\, and c
 ontributes to the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Bloomberg\, FiveThirt
 yEight\, and Fox News. Her entire career argues that being a citizen is so
 mething you practice\, not something you trade: that civic life has to be 
 built deliberately\, in households and classrooms\, not aggregated through
  the same mechanisms that price pork bellies.\nYehuda Maes is a Harvard La
 w grad ('23)\, former Bain consultant\, former Citadel Securities trader\,
  and has run client engagement at Norm AI\, anthe AI company building lega
 l and compliance infrastructure for institutional finance. Before all of t
 hat he was a Sergeant in the IDF and a BlackRock analyst. He's spent his e
 ntire adult life inside the machinery that puts a price on sovereign debt\
 , legal risk\, and roughly everything else. He thinks that's a feature\, n
 ot a bug. He's the perfect defendant.\nTwo perspectives. One night. And pr
 obably a few people in the room with open positions they shouldn't admit t
 hey have.\nModerated by Gillian Goodman\, a Columbia Journalism School gra
 d whose work has appeared in The Intercept\, Truthout\, Prism\, and Democr
 acy Now!\, with features in Vanity Fair and New York Magazine. She covered
  the Columbia encampments from the first days and elections in coastal Geo
 rgia from inside the precincts. She knows the difference between calling a
  race and calling a price. Let's get it on. Drinks provided.\nAccessible. 
 Engaging. Social. UNMUTED is the place where talking points go to die. Tal
 k politics. Keep your friends. Make new ones.
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