# Event Details - **Event Name**: An UNMUTED Dialogue: Bets over Baghdad - The Kalshi Crisis - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 26 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 26 Aug, 2026 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Should citizens be able to bet on democracy and war? A professor of politics and an ex-finance bro debate. MC'd by the legendary Phil Hunt.About this EventDOORS OPEN AT 6:30, SHOW STARTS AT 7. Drinks included in ticket.​Polymarket processed $3.6 billion on a single presidential race. Kalshi just signed deals to pipe its odds into CNN and CNBC broadcasts. Bloomberg Terminal now carries prediction-market prices on the same screens as oil futures. The contracts run 24/7 the way commodities do: presidential races, congressional control, ceasefire dates, war casualty counts. A few clicks gets you long a candidate, short a hostage release, or 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.​So: are prediction markets the most honest reading of civic life we've ever built, or the corruption of every outcome they touch?​For the prosecution, 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 way, you've created an incentive to make it so...and handed the deepest pockets in finance the keys to a democracy they were already overrepresented in. Markets that pay you for predicting an assassination attempt aren't predicting anything. They're paying people to think about it. A republic that lets citizens hedge against its own outcomes isn't a republic with better data. It's one that has quietly outsourced its civic life to traders.​For the defense, that's squeamishness dressed as principle. These markets aggregate information better than polls, better than pundits, better than the press. They put skin in the game on claims that have lived consequence-free for decades. Banning them doesn't make wars or elections less consequential, 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.​One side says the market is the truth. The other says some truths shouldn't have a market.​Lindsey Cormack, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Stevens Institute of Technology and the author of How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It's Up to You to Do It). She runs DCinbox, which has archived every email Congress sends its constituents for over a decade, and contributes to the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, FiveThirtyEight, and Fox News. Her entire career argues that being a citizen is something 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.​Yehuda Maes is a Harvard Law grad ('23), former Bain consultant, former Citadel Securities trader, and currently runs client engagement at Norm Ai — the AI company building legal and compliance infrastructure for institutional finance. Before all of that he was a Sergeant in the IDF and a BlackRock analyst. He's spent his entire adult life inside the machinery that puts a price on sovereign debt, legal risk, and roughly everything else. He thinks that's a feature, not a bug. He's the perfect defendant.​Two perspectives. One night. And probably a few people in the room with open positions they shouldn't admit they have.​Moderated by Gillian Goodman, a Columbia Journalism School grad whose work has appeared in The Intercept, Truthout, Prism, and Democracy Now!, with features in Vanity Fair and New York Magazine. She covered the Columbia encampments from the first days and elections in coastal Georgia from inside the precincts. She knows the difference between calling a race and calling a price. Let's get it on. Drinks provided.​Accessible. Engaging. Social. UNMUTED is the place where talking points go to die. Talk politics. Keep your friends. Make new ones.Agenda?: 06:30 PM - 07:00 PMDoors Open?: 07:00 PM - 07:30 PMMC Comedy and Moderated DebateInfo: Our MC introduces the topic over a HILARIOUS (our opinion) five minute set. Then she introduces the moderator, and our two speakers, who debate the issue over 20-25 minutes.?: 07:30 PM - 08:00 PMCompetitive Q&AInfo: Your interactive portion. Team up with 4-5 people to come up with MOST unique, MOST disruptive, MOST thought provoking question for the debaters. After 15 minutes of deliberation, the moderator will pick the best 3 questions, the debaters will answer those. By show of hands or screams, the audience will then vote on the best question of all. The team with the best question wins a mystery, and relevant, prize. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/an-unmuted-dialogue-bets-over-baghdad-the-kalshi-crisis/100001992859976837 - **Event Categories**: sports, art, theatre, literary-art, comedy, nonprofit, science-fair - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes - Location: Fabrik DUMBO - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 20, max: 45, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Fabrik DUMBO - **lat**: 40.7040065 - **long**: -73.9866792 - **full address**: Fabrik DUMBO, 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: An UNMUTED Dialogue: Bets over Baghdad - The Kalshi Crisis - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/2581be995d4e603feaedee2bf52d9877fbe4186949b6278bc3d68e4fbce594da-rimg-w1000-h1000-dc020813-gmir.jpg?v=1782864969 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is An UNMUTED Dialogue: Bets over Baghdad - The Kalshi Crisis being held? - **A:** An UNMUTED Dialogue: Bets over Baghdad - The Kalshi Crisis takes place on Wed, 26 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Wed, 26 Aug, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Fabrik DUMBO, 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing An UNMUTED Dialogue: Bets over Baghdad - The Kalshi Crisis? - **A:** An UNMUTED Dialogue: Bets over Baghdad - The Kalshi Crisis is organized by UNMUTED. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** An UNMUTED Dialogue: Bets over Baghdad - The Kalshi Crisis is ideal for comedy fans, stand-up enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a dedicated session of curated laughs, professional acts, and sharp wit from seasoned performers. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Brooklyn, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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