It's a debate that matters to people because of the central role that intellectuals still play in defining the political culture of Latin America.
"With so much on the line, for America and the world, the debate that matters most right now is taking place in the Capitol - and I intend to join it". Amid the dramatics, Obama's central argument that US voters should have the chance to judge where the candidates stood on the economy went overlooked.
"Let's get on, let's have the debate that matters the most," added Mr Cameron.
It turned out to be the only debate that mattered.
Tonight, at what's widely believed to be the last debate that matters, the most important candidate for the Republican nomination won't be on stage.
All the debates that matter today in the public arena, whether in economics, social policy, politics, the law, the national culture or this country's relations with the rest of the world, still bear something of the imprint she left on them in her years in office between 1979 and 1990".
For a person with as much pull in influential circles as Markos Moulitsas to engage in a pissing match, and a petty one at that, with a man who does not deserve a minute of his time is to belittle the importance of the work that actually needs to be accomplished, or to vastly underestimate his potential influence on debates that matter, such as the one around health care reform.
Understanding how late medieval Islamic art engaged with the debates that mattered in the world in which it was made lets us to see the art itself differently, while also highlighting some of the historically specific aspects of our own assumptions and experience.
We debate that white matter pathology may be central to the genetic risk to develop BD.
