Thank you for sharing this. What I loved most about the debates held at the Economist was the participation on the part of the users. Although the focus was on the selected panel of moderator and the two experts, there were 29 comments made by users that were largely well thought-out. I believe the Economist is going in the right direction by holding debates on critical issues on the web that are open to public. But we will take it further by significantly moving the platform toward the public. In Agora/Dais, the center-stage of the debate definitively belongs to the general public.