Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, and Irving Kristol, four of the 20th century's leading thinkers, believe passionately that ideas can change the world...especially THEIR ideas. And they have been disagreeing with a vengeance since the 1930s when they sat together as young radicals in the City College cafeteria hashing out the future of Marxism.

ARGUING THE WORLD traces the fascinating trajectory of their lives; those early idealistic days, their controversial roles during the McCarthy era; their battles with the New Left in the 60s; and their vastly different political views today.

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"This enthralling film...offers one of the deepest portraits ever filmed of the fluidity of ideas, as good minds grapple with the cataclysms of history and the human condition and have the temerity to keep searching for answers." - Stephen Holden, The New York Times

"A lively and most enjoyable account of four New York Jews...and how their opinions shaped intellectual and political life in America over the past half-century." - Carrie Rickey, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"[ARGUING THE WORLD] is a fascinating documentation of an important chapter in the history of 20th century American intellectuals." - Variety

"A vivid evocation of an age when ideas were taken seriously and when they truly mattered." - Martin Peretz, The NewRepublic