In this talk, I will assess the value of public deliberation from an egalitarian standpoint. Contrary to the recent claims of several deliberative theorists and egalitarians, I will argue that there is an incommensurable tension between egalitarianism and the ideal of public deliberation, which is common to many contemporary deliberative theories of democracy. Such tension excludes any kind of non-instrumental value of public deliberation from an egalitarian standpoint.