Intelligence Squared
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Intelligence Squared is the world’s leading forum for debate and intelligent discussion. Live and online we take you to the heart of the issues that matter, in the company of some of the world’s sharpest minds and most exciting orators. Join the debate at www.intelligencesquared.com and download our weekly podcast every Friday.
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CleanDavid Wootton and Giles Fraser on the Philosophy of Profit, Power and Pleasure | This week's episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast features David Wootton, historian and author of Power, Pleasure, and Profit, in a wide-ranging conversation with the journalist and Anglican priest Giles Fraser. They examin... | 14 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe West Should Cut Ties With Saudi Arabia | Should the West end its alliance with the Saudi regime? Or should we give its Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman a chance? In this Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by Mehdi Hasan, Madawi al-Rasheed, Mamoun Fandy, Crispin Blunt and Lyse Doucet. | 7 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLeonard Mlodinow and Rosamund Urwin on the Power of Elastic Thinking | In this episode we were joined by Leonard Mlodinow, the theoretical physicist, Star Trek screenwriter and author of Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change in conversation with Sunday Times journalist Rosamund... | 31 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGermany Is Endangering European Stability | This week's podcast comes from an event hosted by Intelligence Squared Germany, in collaboration with ECFR Berlin. Our panel of speakers, including representatives of the Five Star Movement, Fidesz and the ECFR asked: is Germany really the bastion... | 24 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBruce Daisley and Jamie Bartlett on Re-Envisioning the World of Work | In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by Twitter's European VP and author of The Joy of Work Bruce Daisley and tech journalist Jamie Bartlett, for a wide-ranging conversation on how to to re-imagine t... | 17 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRachel Botsman and Helen Lewis on Technology and Trust | In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by Rachel Botsman, world renowned trust expert, Oxford academic and author of Who Can You Trust? She was interviewed by Helen Lewis, associate editor... | 10 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSiva Vaidhyanathan and Helen Lewis on How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy | In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by the cultural historian, media scholar and author of Antisocial Media Siva Vaidhyanathan in conversation with the New Statesman's Helen Lewis. In this ... | 3 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBruno Maçães and Linda Yueh on the Chinese World Order | In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by Bruno Maçães, the former Europe minister of Portugal, in conversation with Oxford economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh. They talked about China's Belt and Road... | 27 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMishal Husain and Martha Lane Fox on Careers, Life and Leadership | Equal pay. Gender bias. Sexual harassment. A year on from the start of the #MeToo movement, conversations around these topics have exploded – and progress on many fronts can seem slow. Nearly 80 percent of British companies have a gender pay-gap; more | 21 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman on Building a Billion-Dollar Business at Lightning Speed | Some of the world’s most successful and powerful companies began as tiny startups and became global giants within only a few years. The list is long and includes world-changing companies like Amazon, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, Uber and Alibaba. But wha | 13 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Battle Over Free Speech: Are Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces and No-Platforming Harming Young Minds? | Many would argue that these are the fundamental goals of a good education. So why has Cambridge University taken to warning its students that the sexual violence in Titus Andronicus might be traumatic for them? Why are other universities in America and. | 6 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBonus Episode - The Brexit Deal: Decision Time | It’s a defining moment for British democracy. This December, Parliament will vote on whether to approve or reject Theresa May’s draft Brexit withdrawal agreement. With the nation’s future hanging in the balance, some have called this ... | 4 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJeanne Marie Laskas and Bonnie Greer on Love, Hate, Anger, and Hope in the Obama Years | In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we had Jeanne Marie Laskas, the American professor, journalist and author of To Obama, looking back at the Obama presidency through the lens of tens of thousands of letters the President rece... | 29 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanParenting Doesn't Matter (Or Not As Much As You Think) | The multibillion-pound parenting industry tells us we can all shape our children to be joyful, resilient and successful. But what if it’s all bunk? Intelligence Squared are bringing together a panel of top geneticists and parenting experts to explore | 23 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpecial episode with Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Director of Communications | In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House Director of Communications for a whopping 11 days. He was interviewed by Josh Lowe, Deputy Editor of Apolitical, for a wi... | 16 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitKamal Ahmed and Razia Iqbal on Identity, Race and Prejudice | This week's episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast was a wide-ranging conversation about race and identity in Britain. In the studio we had Kamal Ahmed, BBC Editorial Director and author of The Life and Times of a Very British Man... | 9 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBonus Episode: The Impeachment Election? Trump, Mueller and the Fight for America | Is this the last stand for American democracy? That’s what many of Donald Trump’s opponents believe. The upcoming US midterm election is the last chance to prevent the United States from becoming a truly authoritarian state. That fear has the Democr | 5 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJames Barr and Catherine Philp on the Secret British-American Rivalry in the Middle East | In this week’s episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast, the historian and author of Lords of the Desert James Barr sat down with Times journalist Catherine Philp to reveal the the story of the hidden 25-... | 2 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKate Raworth and Matthew Taylor on Rethinking Economics For The 21st Century | In this week’s episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast, Oxford economist and author of Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth sat down with Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the RSA, to discuss her transformative ideas for a ne... | 26 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMistaken Identities: The Conflict Over Culture, Class, Gender and Nation with Kwame Anthony Appiah and John Gray | Race, religion and identity are being talked about as never before. While minority groups raise their voices for recognition and inclusion, others feel that their culture is being eroded. In these increasingly febrile times, Intelligence Squared brough. | 19 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDickens vs Tolstoy: The Battle Of The Great 19th-century Novelists | Dickens. Tolstoy. Their names and reputations shake the ground – and so do their books, if you drop one. They are the two greatest novelists from the century when novels were really great. Both captured their countries’ very souls and, as vast... | 12 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPeter Biskind and Helen Lewis on Vampires, Zombies, X-Men and Political Extremism | In this Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by Peter Biskind, cultural critic and author of The Sky Is Falling, alongside the New Statesman's Helen Lewis, in an examination of how popular culture has fuelled extremism in ... | 5 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTristan Harris and Helen Lewis on how tech has hijacked our brains | In this episode of Intelligence Squared we were joined by Tristan Harris, former design ethicist at Google in conversation with the New Statesman's Helen Lewis, as they discussed the threat that technology poses to society and our minds. | 28 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMariana Mazzucato and Stella Creasy on Making and Taking in the Global Economy | In this week's episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast, Mariana Mazzucato, UCL economics professor and author of The Value of Everything, sat down with the UK Labour MP Stella Creasy in a wide-ranging discussion of how real wealth is ... | 21 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJeremy Corbyn Is Unfit To Be Prime Minister | When Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership he was shrugged off as an unelectable oddball in a scruffy suit who would doom Labour to certain defeat. But last year’s shock election result forces us all to consider the real possibility of a Corbyn-led | 14 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLinda Yueh and Jesse Norman on the Economists That Shaped History | Linda Yueh, renowned economist, broadcaster and author of The Great Economists, in conversation with Jesse Norman, MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire and author of Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters... | 6 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTom Baldwin and Nina Schick on How the Information Age Crashed Our Democracy | Tom Baldwin, former Director of Communications for the UK Labour Party under Ed Miliband and author of Ctrl Alt Delete, has spent the best part of three decades at the centre of politics and journalism. In a wide-ranging conversation with Nina... | 30 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTim Marshall in conversation with Catherine Philp on Why We're Living in an Age of Walls | Tim Marshall, renowned journalist and author of Divided, in conversation with the Times diplomatic correspondent Catherine Philp, examine the fault lines that will shape our world for years to come. Walls are going u... | 23 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJamie Susskind in conversation with Helen Lewis On How Tech Is Transforming Our Politics | Jamie Susskind, author of Future Politics, in conversation with the New Statesman's Helen Lewis, discuss how digital technology will radically transform how we live together, exploring how the very concepts of democracy, liberty, justice ... | 16 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJames Bloodworth in conversation with Matthew Taylor on the Gig Economy and the Reality of Low-Wage Work | Journalist James Bloodworth spent six months working undercover across Britain, taking on some of the country's most gruelling and menial jobs for his recent book Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain. In this... | 9 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitTom Whipple in Conversation With Rosamund Urwin on Why Gender Still Matters | Referencing the latest research on the science of sexuality, Tom Whipple talks about dating apps, Love Island, the relative testicle size of bonobos and chimpanzees, and gay penguins, to throw light on why men and women behave the way they do when it c. | 2 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBlockchain: Quantum leap forward or digital snake oil? | Blockchain, the technology on which Bitcoin is based, has gone mainstream. Evangelists describe it as a thrilling and versatile foundation that will revolutionise everything from finance to governance. But is it really the radical new paradigm its adhe. | 27 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Rise of the Smart City: Urban Wonderland or Fool’s Paradise? | More humans than ever before live in cities. Technology is now being rolled out across the world’s urban areas, making day-to-day city living more pleasant, more efficient and more sustainable. For example, traffic flows are being improved by sensors | 20 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Battle for the Countryside: Britain Should Rewild its Uplands | Imagine if swathes of the British countryside were allowed to be wild once again, if trees and rare plants could flourish and beavers, boars and white-tailed eagles could retake their place in the ecosystem. That’s the goal of the growing numbers of n | 12 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitMary Beard on Women and Power, with Miriam González and Laurie Penny | Mary Beard is Britain’s best known classicist. Widely admired for her scholarship and popular television programmes about the ancient world, she is also one of this country’s most prominent feminists. By refusing to be cowed by the misogynisti... | 5 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJames Comey in Conversation with Emily Maitlis on Speaking Truth To Power | When President Trump sacked James Comey as FBI Director in May last year, he ignited a political firestorm with huge implications for American democracy. Comey’s dismissal led to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to look at possible li | 29 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe World Should Recognise Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital | Many of Israel's supporters, including Donald Trump, claim Jerusalem should be recognised as the country's capital city. After all, it has been the Jewish people's spiritual capital for millennia. But will recognising Jerusalem be the de... | 22 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAnshel Pfeffer in conversation with Catherine Philp on Netanyahu and The Future of Israel | This week's Intelligence Squared podcast features Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz journalist and author of Bibi - The Turbulent Life And Times Of Benjamin Netanyahu in conversation with Catherine Philp, diploma... | 14 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Threat From Russia: Can Putin Be Stopped? | Is Vladimir Putin the most powerful – and dangerous – man in the world? With Putin in the Kremlin, we have returned to an era where former Russian spies are mysteriously poisoned on British soil and where Russia feels emboldened to roll its tanks in | 7 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Disunited States: Is the Trump presidency causing irreparable damage to America? | America has never seen anything like this. Time and again, Donald Trump has attacked the very fabric of US democracy. He has called the press ‘the enemy of the American people’. He says that claims that Russia interfered in the US election are a hoa | 31 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJordan Peterson on Gender, Patriarchy and the Slide Towards Tyranny | In May 2018, we recorded a special episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast in London. Jordan Peterson, author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, was joined by Anne McElvoy, Senior Editor at The Economist and head of Economist Radio, to dis. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRevere or Remove? The Battle Over Statues, Heritage and History | Statues and memorials to famous figures of the past adorn our towns and cities. But what should be done when some of these figures have come to be seen by many people as controversial symbols of oppression and discrimination? In Britain, the Rhodes M. | 17 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe nuclear deal with Iran won't make the world a safer place | For this week's episode we're revisiting our debate from November 2015, "The nuclear deal with Iran won't make the world a safer place". Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s most formidable and celebrated lawyers, and Emily Land... | 10 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSend Them Back: The Parthenon Marbles Should be Returned to Athens | What’s all this nonsense about sending the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece? If Lord Elgin hadn’t rescued them from the Parthenon in Athens and presented them to the British Museum almost 200 years ago, these exquisite sculptures – the finest embo | 3 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJamie Bartlett in conversation with Helen Lewis on how the internet is threatening our freedoms | This week's Intelligence Squared podcast features Jamie Bartlett, tech journalist and author of The People vs Tech in conversation with the New Statesman's Deputy Editor Helen Lewis. In this in-depth discussion on the politi... | 26 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRembrandt Vs Vermeer: The Titans of Dutch Painting | (For a list of all paintings referenced by Simon Schama and Tracy Chevalier in this debate please go to: https://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/rembrandt-vs-vermeer-titans-of-dutch-painting-simon-schama-tracy-chevalier/ Rembrandt van Rijn is the . | 19 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPsychiatrists & the pharma industry are to blame for the current ‘epidemic’ of mental disorders | Drug pushers. We tend to associate them with the bleak underworld of criminality. But some would argue that there’s another class of drug pushers, just as unscrupulous, who work in the highly respectable fields of psychiatry and the pharmaceutical ind | 12 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHilton Als and Afua Hirsch on Race, Gender and Identity | In March 2018, we recorded a special episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast at the Acast studio in east London. Pulitzer prize winning writer and chief theatre critic for The New Yorker Hilton Als was in conversation wit... | 5 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStop Brexit | It’s time we came to to our senses. Brexit is a disaster and must be stopped. Leave campaigners promised our exit from the European Union would herald a glorious new era – the sunlit uplands of ‘global Britain’, with new trade deals signed in a | 29 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIf You Believe You Are a Citizen of the World, You Are A Citizen of Nowhere | When Theresa May uttered these words at the Tory party conference in 2016, there was uproar. May was targeting the liberal establishment, who flit business class from Mayfair to Monaco, from Davos to Doha; those in positions of power, who, as May put i. | 22 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDisruption Ahead: Will Future Transport Systems Benefit Society Or Drive It Apart? | A transport revolution in our cities is under way. Ride-sharing schemes, driverless cars and electric vehicles look set to bring us all kinds of benefits, such as lower pollution, faster flowing traffic and fewer accidents. But these benefits won’t | 15 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Power of Poetry, with William Sieghart, Jeanette Winterson and Helena Bonham Carter | For 15 years, the power of the spoken word has been at the heart of Intelligence Squared’s mission. Argument and debate, we believe, can move, persuade and create real change. Now, in these anxious and divided times, we held a special event that celeb | 8 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWestern Parents Don't Know How to Bring Up Their Children | Why are there so many Chinese maths and music prodigies? Because Chinese mothers believe schoolwork and music practice come first, that an A-minus is a bad grade, that sleepovers, TV and computer games should never be allowed and that the only activity. | 1 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Left has right on its side | Letís be honest. Itís the political Left that has societyís best interests at heart, that works for the good of all. It has always been the Left that has struggled to protect the weak from the strong, that has fought for workersí rights, for sexual | 22 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitJames Rhodes And Armando Iannucci on the Transformative Power of Music | In February 2018 Intelligence Squared brought Armando Iannucci and James Rhodes to our stage to discuss the transcendent power of music. Rhodes is known as the wild man of concert pianists. His approach to the piano is raw an... | 15 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTen Years On: The Financial Crisis and the State of Modern Capitalism | It’s been ten years since we saw suddenly unemployed Lehman Brothers bankers carrying their possessions out of their offices in boxes; since whole neighbourhoods in suburban America turned into empty ghost towns; since the British and American governm | 8 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKaren Armstrong on Religion and the History of Violence | Karen Armstrong has written over 16 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths have shaped world history and drive current events. She came to the Intelligence Squared stag. | 1 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrian Cox and Alice Roberts on the Incredible Unlikeliness of Human Existence | Who are we? Why are we here? Are we alone in the universe? How did we become the creatures that we are? How might we further evolve? These are some of the big questions that Brian Cox and Alice Roberts tackled when they came to the Intelligence Squar. | 25 1 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBreak Up The Tech Giants | It is time to call the tech companies to account. In the space of just ten years, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft have become the biggest companies on the planet and have accrued a level of power that threatens us all. They control our da. | 18 1 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCaitlyn Jenner on Identity and Self-Realisation | This week's episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast was recorded in a studio in London's Soho. We were joined by Caitlyn Jenner, the world's most famous transgender woman, as she talked with the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland abo... | 11 1 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Brooks on the Road to Character | In May 2015, New York Times columnist David Brooks came to the Intelligence Squared stage to share the insights of his latest book, 'The Road to Character'. Brooks argued that today’s ‘Big Me’ culture is making us increasingly self-preoccupie... | 4 1 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitInside The Head Of Terry Gilliam | Terry Gilliam is one of the most multifaceted, visionary talents alive. He first found fame as a member of Monty Python, the surreal comedy troupe that has had a cult following since its inception in 1969 right up to today. Had Gilliam stopped there, h. | 28 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJoseph Stiglitz on the Great Divide | Inequality is an increasing problem in the Western world, leaving everyone – the rich as well as the poor – worse off. The dream of a socially mobile society is becoming an ever more unachievable myth. That’s the view of Nobel Prize-winning econom | 21 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStephen Fry and Friends on the Life, Loves and Hates of Christopher Hitchens | In this historic event, Stephen Fry and other friends of Christopher Hitchens came together to celebrate the life and work of this great writer, iconoclast and debater. Fry was joined on stage at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall by Richa... | 14 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWords that Changed The World, with Jeremy Irons and Carey Mulligan | For 15 years, Intelligence Squared has vigorously championed the spoken word. The finest speakers from across the globe have come to our stage — to argue, to move, to persuade and change minds. Their speeches epitomise the vital role that public speak | 7 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrave New World vs Ninety Eighty-Four | Dystopian books and films are in the zeitgeist. Reflecting the often dark mood of our times, Intelligence Squared are staging a contest between two of the greatest dystopian novels, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. E... | 30 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMichael Lewis On How Behavioural Economics Changed The World | Michael Lewis is one of the most successful non-fiction authors alive. He has been acclaimed as a genius by Malcolm Gladwell and as the best current writer in America by Tom Wolfe. In a series of titles that have sold 9 million copies worldwid... | 23 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJaron Lanier on the Future of Our Digital Lives | Jaron Lanier is one of the foremost digital visionaries of our times. One of Silicon Valley’s key early innovators, this dreadlocked digital prophet has been dubbed the ‘father of virtual reality’ and named as one of Time’s 100 most influenti.. | 17 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNeville Chamberlain did the right thing: Appeasement of Hitler was the best policy for the British government in the 1930s | If ever a politician got a bum rap it’s Neville Chamberlain. He has gone down in history as the British prime minster whose policy of appeasement in the 1930s allowed the Nazis to flourish unopposed. He has never been forgiven for ceding part of Czech | 9 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMe, My Selfie and I: Self-Expression in the Digital Age | We are living in the age of selfie mania. Everyone from the Pope to Obama has appeared in one. In the past, only a handful of people were able to propagate their own images, whether it was artists like Rembrandt or Van Gogh painting self-portraits, soc. | 2 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWarfare: The New Rules - The Cyber Threat to States, Businesses and All of Us | We are at war: cyberwar. Cyber attacks are becoming the weapon of choice for states, terrorists and criminal organisations. Through the fragile, interconnected structure of the web, anything can be hacked – from national infrastructure to an... | 26 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOslo: Can We Bring Peace Between Enemies? | On October Intelligence Squared staged a pre-theatre discussion, ‘Can We Bring Peace Between Enemies?’ before a performance of the award-winning play Oslo. The play is a political thriller which tells the true story of two maverick Norwegian diploma | 19 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNiall Ferguson on History's Hidden Networks | Have historians misunderstood everything? Have they missed the single greatest idea that best explains the past? Niall Ferguson is the preeminent historian of the ideas that define our time. He has challenged how we think about money, power... | 12 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRandall Munroe with Marcus du Sautoy on Making the Complicated Simple | On 2nd October, Intelligence Squared brought together two of the world’s best-loved masters of explaining and popularising science, who lifted the lid on the technology we love and on the cutting edge of current scientific research. Randall Munroe is | 5 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella on hitting refresh and seizing the opportunity of the digital revolution | Satya Nadella is one of the world’s most inspirational business leaders, as much a humanist as a technologist and executive. On September 28th, he comes to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss his personal journey from a childhood in India to bec | 28 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNapoleon the Great? A debate with Andrew Roberts, Adam Zamoyski and Jeremy Paxman | How should we remember Napoleon, the man of obscure Corsican birth who rose to become emperor of the French and briefly master of Europe? In 2014, as the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo approached, Intelligence Squared brought together two. | 21 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Great Realignment: Britain's Political Identity Crisis | Is Britain facing an identity crisis? The traditional dividing lines of left and right seem to be dissolving into new political tribes – metropolitan liberals versus the culturally rooted working classes, graduates versus the uneducated, the young... | 14 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSam Harris on the Science of Good and Evil | Where do our ideas about morality and meaning come from? Most people - from religious extremists to secular scientists - would agree on one point: that science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, science's failure to explain... | 7 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIs London too rich to be interesting? | It used to be so easy. You left university, came to London and got yourself a flatshare in one of the cheaper areas: Notting Hill, Maida Vale or Highgate. Living was cheap and if it took you a while to find out what you really wanted to do with your... | 31 8 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAtheism is the new Fundamentalism, with Richard Dawkins and Richard Harries | Intelligence Squared is the world’s leading forum… | 24 8 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Elders in conversation with Jon Snow (Pres. Jimmy Carter, Archbp. Desmond Tutu & Mary Robinson) | Independent, free now from the constraints of office, with a wealth of experience and the ability to open doors at the highest level, The Elders are helping tackle some of the world's most intractable problems. Brought together by Nelson Mandela ... | 17 8 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Allied bombing of German cities in World War II was unjustifiable | No one doubts the bravery of the thousands of men who flew and died in Bomber Command. The death rate was an appalling 44%. And yet until the opening of a monument in Green Park in 2012 they had received no official recognition, with many historians... | 10 8 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBritain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War | The First World War is not called the Great War for nothing. It was the single most decisive event in modern history, as well as one of the bloodiest: by the time the war ended, some nine million soldiers had been killed. It was also a historical full. | 4 8 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMarina Abramović on art, performance, time and nothingness | Marina Abramović is the most celebrated performance artist in the world. Over a career spanning four decades she has pioneered performance as an art form and accumulated a devoted following that includes Jay-Z and Lady Gaga. Using her body as both... | 27 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe EU is Failing Europe's Citizens | In the eyes of pro-Europeans, the founding of the EU after WWII secured peace across the continent for decades. It cemented a lasting friendship between France and Germany, brought freedom to Greece and Spain and later on introduced the free market to. | 20 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrancis Fukuyama with David Runciman - Democracy: Even the Best Ideas Can Fail | In September 2014, Professor Francis Fukuyama came to the Intelligence Squared stage to square up with one of Britain’s most brilliant political thinkers, David Runciman, to assess how democracy is faring in 2014. We certainly haven’t attained the r | 13 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNaomi Klein on Donald Trump and the new shock politics | Earlier this week we recorded a special episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast at the Acast studio in east London. We were joined by author and activist Naomi Klein and BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed as they discussed Klein's bestselling ne... | 6 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai and Adam Grant on Facing Adversity, Building Resilience And Finding Joy | ‘I learned about the depths of sadness and the brutality of loss. But I also learned that when life sucks you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface and breathe again.’ – Sheryl Sandberg Sheryl Sandberg is the COO at Facebook a | 29 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDaniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking | Daniel Dennett is one of the world's most original and provocative thinkers. A philosopher and cognitive scientist, he is known as one of the 'Four Horseman of New Atheism' along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens. In 2013 he came to Intelligence Squared to share the insights he has acquired over his 40-year career into the nature of how we think, decide and act. Dennett revealed his favourite thinking tools, or 'intuition pumps', that he and others have developed for addressing life's most fundamental questions. As well as taking a fresh look at familiar moves - Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum - he discussed new cognitive solutions designed for the most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, consciousness and free will. | 22 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIt's time to bring Russia in from the cold: Rapprochement is in the West's best interests | Is it in the West’s interests to bring Russia in from the cold? Or should we be on our guard against an ascendant, belligerent country on Europe’s borders? For this major debate, Intelligence Squared put together a stellar line-up. Making the case | 15 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEurope on the Edge | What’s happening to Europe? The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was seen as a triumph for liberal democracy. True, the ‘end of history’ narrative didn’t play out across the world as many predicted. But in Europe political liberalism seemed unsha | 8 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCan innovation transform London into a carbon neutral city? | Could London be the first carbon neutral city? Listen to this exciting debate hosted by Intelligence Squared. Gadget guru Jason Bradbury is the chair, plus guests including award winning actor and broadcaster Richard Ayoade. | 1 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFake News: The Facts | There are lies, damn lies, and then there’s fake news. Manipulating the facts for political gain is as old as politics itself, but due to the rise of social media and search engine algorithms false stories can now spread like wildfire. In the run-up t | 25 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow to Think Like a Freak: Learn How to Make Smarter Decisions with the authors of "Freakonomics" | The books 'Freakonomics' and 'SuperFreakonomics' have been worldwide sensations, selling tens of millions of copies. They have come to stand for challenging conventional wisdom using data rather than emotion. Questions they examine ... | 18 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBetween You and I The English Language Is Going To The Dogs | Speaking and writing correct English are the hallmark of an intelligent person. No one who cares about language wants to be caught splitting an infinitive or muddling up ‘infer’ and ‘imply’. Which is why the bestseller lists are regularly topped | 11 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAn Evening with Slavoj Žižek | Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced | 4 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrump is Making America Great Again | As Donald Trump approaches the first 100 days of his presidency, things couldn’t be worse. His administration has been more gaffe-prone, incompetent and unstable than any other in American history. Trump has been engulfed in a scandal over his... | 27 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAnne-Marie Slaughter on Our Hyper-Networked World | Anne-Marie Slaughter is one of the world’s top foreign policy thinkers, admired by influential global leaders such as Joe Biden, Condoleeza Rice and Eric Schmidt. A former senior adviser to Hillary Clinton in the State Department, she hit the headline | 20 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHas the Political Establishment Failed America? | Has the political establishment failed America? Whether they voted for Trump or Sanders or none of the above, millions of Americans say the answer is yes – and that the system benefits the elites at the expense of everyone else. Others say that despit | 13 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhose Prosperity? How Can We Build Inclusive and Sustainable Economies? | A debate on the eve of the Second PAGE Ministerial Conference (http://bit.ly/2jhYyaX). Filmed at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) in Berlin on March 26th 2017. Globalisation has created.. | 6 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSocial Media is Killing Art | Social media is like fast food – rapidly consumed for instant gratification. No wonder social media demeans art. Artworks that instantly seduce online become tedious when contemplated over time in the flesh. Once art goes viral, it gains traction... | 30 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNiall Ferguson On The Six Killer Apps Of Western Civilisation | Niall Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation. In this talk from February 2011, based on his book 'Civilisation: The West and the Rest', he asks how Western civilization came to dominate the rest of the world. His ... | 23 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDon’t give them what they want: Terrorists should be starved of the oxygen of publicity | Why do they do it? Again and again, after every attack, our media react by giving the terrorists exactly what they want – maximum publicity. Of course, the public should be told that an atrocity has taken place. But each attack dominates the news for. | 16 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFeminism Is For Everyone | A year ago, you could have been forgiven for thinking that gender equality was on an unstoppable trajectory. America stood poised to elect its first female president. On this side of the Atlantic, members of the political and cultural establishment... | 9 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJeffrey Sachs on America and a New World Order | 'America first!' Donald Trump hammered out this message over and again in his inauguration speech a week ago today. He promised tariffs, a crackdown on immigration, and a restoration of American military might. He entered the White House as t... | 2 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDaniel Dennett on the Evolution of the Mind, Consciousness and AI | How come there are conscious minds? How do language and culture evolve? Should we still teach children things which computers can do better? Will our smart electronic devices rob us of our intelligence? Will human intelligence and AI co-evolve? These.. | 23 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Bittersweet Truth About What We Eat | Intelligence Squared is the world’s leading forum… | 16 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSteven Pinker on Good Writing, with Ian McEwan | Steven Pinker is one of the world’s leading authorities on language, mind and human nature. A professor of psychology at Harvard, he is the bestselling author of eight books and regularly appears in lists of the world’s top 100 thinkers. In 2014 he | 9 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanQueen Elizabeth I vs Queen Victoria | Intelligence Squared’s historical and cultural combat events have been thrilling our audiences with their unique blend of entertainment, information and live performance. Here we present the battle of the queens. Both Queen Elizabeth I and Queen... | 2 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThomas Friedman on Thriving in the Age of Acceleration | He has been called ‘the most influential columnist in America’, and is read by everyone from small-business owners to President Obama. As a star columnist of The New York Times, Thomas Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times. Although he has | 26 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe New Optimism, with Matt Ridley, Johan Norberg, David Runciman and Laura Kuenssberg | Are you an optimist or a pessimist? And why should it matter? After what for many of us has been an annus horribilis in 2016, pessimists seem to have all the best tunes. Terror attacks, horror headlines from Syria, a tide of hatred and resentment... | 19 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSteven Pinker on The Better Angels of Our Nature | In 2011, we welcomed world renowned American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker to the Intelligence Squared stage. Here he argues that, contrary to popular belief, we are living in the least violent period of history. And that even the horrific carnage.. | 12 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Hand that Rocks the Cradle Cannot Rock the Boardroom | Is it a myth that women can have it all, all of the time? Or do the rising numbers of female executives in Hong Kong and around the world suggest otherwise? Does the glass ceiling exist as a barrier to the boardroom, or is the only limitation to a... | 6 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWilliam Gibson on 'Zero History', with Cory Doctorow | On 5th October 2010, Intelligence Squared paired author William Gibson with popular blogger and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow in a wide-ranging conversation that gives a fascinating insight into the mind of the man heralded as the "architec... | 29 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDan Pink on the Science of Buoyancy | It happens to all of us every day. You get rejected. Your customer doesn’t buy. Your boss doesn’t agree. Your crush doesn’t say yes. In this provocative and entertaining talk, exclusive to Intelligence Squared, American author Daniel H. Pink harve | 22 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTim Harford on the Importance of Being Messy | Have the forces of tidiness marched too far? Would we all benefit from being a bit messy? That’s the big question that the FT’s star economist Tim Harford will be asking in this exclusive Intelligence Squared event. In Harford’s view, we need to b | 15 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrump: An American Tragedy? | It’s one month since we woke up to the shock news that the next president of the United States will be Donald Trump, and the whole world is trying to read the runes and work out what the next four years will hold for America and the rest of the... | 8 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIan Fleming vs John le Carré | They are the titans of the spy novel, who have elevated thrillers to the level of literary fiction. Much imitated, much adapted by the big and small screens, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré have painted our picture of post-war espionage: Fleming through. | 1 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Rise of Populism and the Backlash Against the Elites, with Jonathan Haidt and Nick Clegg | What is going on in the Western democracies? From Britain’s vote for Brexit, to Donald Trump’s election victory in America and the growth of populist movements across Europe, voters are expressing their dissatisfaction with the status quo. Economic. | 25 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNo Backsliding On Brexit: Britain Should Prioritise Controlling Its Borders Over Staying In The European Single Market | Intelligence Squared is the world’s leading forum… | 17 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOne size doesn’t fit all: Democracy is not always the best form of government | Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. So said Winston Churchill and who would disagree? One man, one vote, the rule of law, equality and a free press. These are the Enlightenment principles the West has... | 10 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLet Them Eat Meat: There is Nothing Wrong With Rearing and Killing Animals for Human Consumption | Fancy a nice juicy steak? Most of us do from time to time, and we don’t trouble our consciences too much with the rights and wrongs of eating meat. Others, while vaguely aware that we ought to go vegan, just can’t face the rest of our lives denying. | 3 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAn Anatomy Of Truth: Conversations on Truth-Telling | Not everyone tells the truth. ‘Read my lips: no new taxes.’ ‘This isn’t going to hurt.’ ‘I see no ships, my lord.’ ‘Of course I love you.’ When can we know what to believe? Four out of five of us don’t think politicians tell the trut | 27 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitPornography is Good For Us: Without it We Would Be a Far More Repressed Society | Hooray for porn! What would we be without it? Bored, repressed, frustrated. Porn allows the timid to indulge fantasies they’d never live out in real life and the adventurous to experiment with new forms of pleasure. Now that it has stepped down from.. | 20 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPJ O'Rourke on the US Presidential Clash | As Donald Trump faces Hillary Clinton in what has been one of the most vitriolic and unpredictable races in recent US election history, we were joined by America’s leading political satirist PJ O’Rourke, just a month ahead of US election day, as he. | 14 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Gene: Unlocking the Human Code, with Siddhartha Mukherjee | Genetics has revolutionised not just how we think of biology but how we think of ourselves. We are, in the words of one geneticist, the first organism that has ‘learned to read its own instructions’. Now, with the breakthrough of gene-editing... | 7 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKarl Marx Was Right | We can’t say Karl Marx didn’t warn us: capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. In their chase for ever higher profits, the capitalists shed workers for machines. The higher return on capital means that the share of profits rises and th | 30 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe End of Antibiotics? | This panel discussion took place at the New York Academy of Sciences in September 2016 and was produced by Intelligence Squared, in partnership with the World Health Organisation and the Wellcome Trust. There’s a time bomb ticking that is going to af | 23 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYuval Noah Harari on the Myths we Need to Survive | Myths. We tend to think they’re a thing of the past, fabrications that early humans needed to believe in because their understanding of the world was so meagre. But what if modern civilisation were itself based on a set of myths? This is the big... | 19 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Eagleman on the Science of De- (and Re-) Humanisation (and Why it Matters) | Which side were you on? The Jets or the Sharks? The Capulets or the Montagues? The Greeks or the Trojans? Antony or Caesar? William or Harold? And so the list goes on ... Indeed, maybe the whole of human history is the story of group-making and group-b. | 16 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYuval Noah Harari on the Rise of Homo Deus | “Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past… It will not tell us what to choose, but at least it gives us more options.” – Yuval Noah Harari Yuval Noah Harari is the star historian who shot to fame with his international bestseller 'S | 9 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMuseums are Bad at Telling us Why Art Matters | Museums are our new churches, as is commonly agreed. Millions of people flock to them to be uplifted, inspired, or distracted from everyday cares for an hour or two by encountering magnificent art. But while churches know exactly how to present art in.. | 2 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanP J O'Rourke: The Funniest Man in America | P.J. O'Rourke is America's premier political satirist and has more citations in 'The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations' than any other living writer. In this live appearance for Intelligence Squared in 2010, he discussed his... | 10 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrexit Britain – Our Divided Nation | This panel session was part of Brexit Britain, an afternoon of debate and discussion produced by BBC Newsnight in partnership with Intelligence Squared at the Royal Geographical Society in London. In this, the first session of the day, folk... | 31 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrexit Britain - Political Fallout | This panel session was part of Brexit Britain, an afternoon of debate and discussion produced by BBC Newsnight in partnership with Intelligence Squared at the Royal Geographical Society in London. In this, the second session of the day, Guardian... | 31 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCarlo Rovelli and Christophe Galfard on the Architecture of the Universe | Does time exist? Was our universe born from a Big Bang, or from a Big Bounce triggered by a former universe imploding? Is this the only universe, or are there infinite ones, all expanding in parallel and out of sight of each other? These are just so. | 29 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRichard Dawkins: The Rational Revolutionary | In the 1960s and 70s, a revolution took place in the way we understand human nature. Out went Marx and Freud, and in came a rational, scientific approach to the way we see ourselves. At the vanguard of that revolution was Richard Dawkins, the evolution. | 22 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAncient Worlds: A Meeting of East and West | There’s a new school of history that’s revolutionising the way we look at the past. For centuries, our history has been taught in separate chunks, with the classical, European world divided from China and the East. This traditional, somewhat lazy... | 15 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrexit: What Next? | The UK has made the momentous decision to leave the EU. Intelligence Squared staged an emergency event to discuss the ramifications. A panel including Douglas Carswell, Jonathan Freedland, Josef Janning, Liz Kendall, Anand Menon and Adair Turner will... | 5 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYes, he Can! No, he couldn't. Obama Is A Failed President | Eight years ago the banners said ‘Behold the new Kennedy!’ Tears flowed and expectations were sky-high as Obama spoke on election night surrounded by his young family. Here was America’s saviour, the man who could overcome the legacy of slavery, h | 23 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOne Size Doesn’t Fit All: Democracy is Not Always the Best Form of Government | Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. So said Winston Churchill and who would disagree? One man, one vote, the rule of law, equality and a free press. These are the principles which tens of thousands have. | 22 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Return of History and the Death of Democracy, with Peter Frankopan and Kwasi Kwarteng | 25 years ago, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the future looked rosy. Liberal democracy, freedom and individual rights were on the march, triumphing over tyranny and repression. The end of the Cold War had brought an end to history, declared Francis.. | 17 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Benefits System Perpetuates Misery | Beveridge would be turning in his grave. The benefits system that his 1942 report introduced has become a travesty. Right now there are some 4.5m people in the UK living in households where nobody has a job. Behind that figure lies a subsection of... | 11 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLet the bad guys be: foreign intervention does more harm than good | In February 2012 Intelligence Squared Asia presented leading voices and influential figures in a debate about foreign intervention. This discussion raised questions such as: Does foreign intervention lend itself to long-term partnerships characterized.. | 3 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Great Intelligence Squared Brexit Debate | How do we decide? The in-out referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union on June 23 is a once-in-a-generation vote. For some of us it’s a matter of gut political instinct: we are natural inners or outers. But for many, coming to an infor | 27 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIs the Party Over for Economic Growth? When economic stagnation becomes the new normal | It was a blast. Since the Industrial Revolution, we enjoyed unprecedented economic growth, propelled by a seemingly unstoppable wave of technological innovation. For 100 years from around 1870, life in the West was transformed by inventions such as... | 20 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAssisted suicide should be legalised | The law allows me to kill myself, but what if I have a progressive illness and reach a stage when I long to end my life but cannot do so unaided. Isn't it needlessly cruel and illogical that as the law stands, no friend or family member or doctor ... | 13 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMichael Sandel on the Moral Limits of Markets | Michael Sandel is one of the world's most acclaimed and popular political philosophers. He has given the Reith lectures, been called "the most influential foreign figure of the year" by China Newsweek, and his online video lectures for H... | 6 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTony Blair on Trial | When Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997, he had a landslide majority, an approval rating of 93 per cent, and he went on to become Labour’s longest-serving premier. At his last PMQs he got a standing ovation in the chamber of the House of... | 29 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Future of Health: When Death Becomes Optional | What if doctors no longer played God and you became CEO of your own health? What if medicine were tailor-made for your own DNA? What will the world be like when people start living to 150 – or even forever? If only the wealthy can afford super-long | 22 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanArt Today Has Sold Out To The Market | Today’s global art market is reminiscent of a roller coaster - even as it rotates and retrenches - the ride continues to propel, excite and surprise. With a tenfold increase in buyers over the last decade, unprecedented numbers of influencers are... | 15 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDemocracy is India's Achilles' heel | We assume that democracy is what every country should have. But what has democracy done for India? Easy. It has stimulated corruption on a massive scale, and if you want to get rich in India the most direct way is to run for parliament and reap the... | 8 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGeorge Steiner on the Poetry of Thought | Renowned polyglot and polymath, George Steiner has long been recognised as one of the most original minds and brilliant lecturers of our generation. In this talk from April 2009, he argued that at the deepest level there is no essential difference... | 31 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe United Nations is terminally paralysed: the democratic world needs a forum of its own | In January 2009, a panel of experts came to the Intelligence Squared stage to debate the motion "The United Nations is terminally paralysed: the democratic world needs a forum of its own". Speaking for the motion were Radek Sikorski, Foreign... | 24 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanObama's foreign policy is a gift to America's enemies | Barack Obama’s foreign policy came under expert scrutiny in this Intelligence Squared debate from 2010, as influential hawks and doves debated whether the president’s policies have left America looking feeble on the world stage. Historian and academ | 18 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBoth Britain and the EU would be happier if they got divorced | Some people just can’t bring themselves to acknowledge that a relationship is over. Finished. Unsalvageable. David Cameron, for instance. His long awaited speech on Europe has been one big exercise in denial. Yes, we should stay married to Europe, he | 10 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Trouble with This Country Is the Daily Mail | "Immigrant-bashing, woman-hating, Muslim-smearing, NHS-undermining, gay-baiting”. That’s how one critic has described the Daily Mail. It depicts a world where traditional British values are under siege – from the EU, rising crime, and benefit scro | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUmberto Eco in conversation with Paul Holdengräber | RIP Umberto Eco, bestselling Italian author and semiotician perhaps best-known for his novel 'The Name of the Rose', who sadly died aged 84 earlier this week. This week's podcast revisits our event from November 2011, when we were lucky ... | 26 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDefeating Isis means Western Boots on the Ground | Enough is enough. Paris, Sharm El-Sheikh, Istanbul, Jakarta. Isis is the global crucible of terrorism and must be stopped using all means available. After the Paris attacks last November, the US and its allies stepped up the bombing of Isis targets in . | 19 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Catholic Church is Beyond Redemption: Pope Francis Cannot Save it | Mired in allegations of sexual abuse, corruption in the Vatican and the first papal resignation in six centuries, the Catholic Church is in crisis. Two thousand years of arcane methods, tired dogma and unpalatable lies have left the papacy crippled and. | 12 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGreece versus Rome, with Boris Johnson and Mary Beard | On November 19th Intelligence Squared hosted the ultimate clash of civilisations: Greece vs Rome. It was also the ultimate clash of intellectual titans. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London and ardent classicist, made the case for Greece; while Mary Beard, P. | 5 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Next For Feminism? | Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Washington power player who upset the feminist applecart. At the peak of her career — as first female Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department — she turned her back on her dream job with Hillary Clinton in o | 29 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom The Library: The Art World Is A Boys' Club | Botticelli's Venus. Warhol's Marilyn. Chen Yifei’s Beauties. Historically, the creation of art has been largely the preserve of men. And not a lot has changed. In recent years, the top 100 highest grossing living artists at auction were men,... | 18 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAnthony Sattin on Cairo | Cairo. The facts say one thing: the biggest city in Africa and the Middle East and now so chaotic and polluted that most visitors to Egypt prefer to avoid it. This same city also speaks to us of history and humanity – Moses and Jesus, Arab poets and N | 15 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom the Library - Daniel Goleman On Focus: The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment | Psychologist Daniel Goleman shot to fame with his groundbreaking bestseller 'Emotional Intelligence'. The premise of the book, now widely accepted, is that raw intelligence alone is not a sure predictor of success in life. A greater role is p... | 8 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom the Library: The Parthenon Marbles Should Be Returned To Athens | What’s all this nonsense about sending the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece? If Lord Elgin hadn’t rescued them from the Parthenon in Athens and presented them to the British Museum almost 200 years ago, these exquisite sculptures – the finest embo | 30 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom the Library: Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton | What really divides the left and the right? To answer this question, Intelligence Squared brought together two giants of British intellectual culture for an ideological reckoning: Terry Eagleton, literary critic and long-time hero of the radical left, . | 18 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Right To Bear Arms Is A Freedom Too Far | Filmed at the Sadler's Wells Lilian Baylis Studio on 27th March 2013. Arguing in favour of the motion was journalist, novelist and broadcaster Will Self. Arguing against the motion was author and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens. Joining... | 10 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEffective Altruism: A Better Way to Lead an Ethical Life | Almost all of us want to make a difference in our lives. So we give to charity, recycle, volunteer, or cut down our carbon emissions. But are we getting it right? In a world where ever more data is available, shouldn’t we be paying closer attention to | 4 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Great European Refugees And Migrants Debate | Europe is gripped by the biggest migrant crisis since the Second World War. The parallels with that earlier crisis are hard to avoid. When in 1938 tens of thousands were fleeing Nazi Germany, not a single European country agreed to raise its quotas. In. | 27 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFight Your Own Battles: Foreign powers shouldn't intervene in the Middle East | Filmed at Sadler's Wells on 17th July 2013. Speaking for the motion were Palestinian-American writer, human rights campaigner and political commentator Susan Abulhawa and Former British Ambassador to Syria Sir Andrew Green. Speaking against the ... | 18 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Nuclear Deal With Iran Won't Make the World a Safer Place | What’s not to like? The deal reached between Iran and six world powers in July is a major diplomatic breakthrough. In exchange for Tehran halting its nuclear weapons programme, the West will lift the sanctions that have been crippling Iran’s economy | 12 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKarl Ove Knausgaard: The Alchemist of the Ordinary | Novelists worship him. Critics fall over themselves to explain his genius. His celebrity fans say his books are like drugs. ‘I just read 200 pages and I need the next volume like crack. It’s completely blown my mind,’ Zadie Smith tweeted. What th | 6 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Art of Political Power, with Robert Caro and William Hague | Every industry has its guru. And when it comes to the dark arts of political statecraft, the American biographer Robert Caro is the mentor politicians turn to for guidance. His biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson has been described as ‘the greate | 30 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChina picks better leaders than the West | As Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the UK for a four-day state visit and David Cameron hails a "golden era" in the relationship between the two countries, we revisit the Intelligence Squared Asia debate "China picks better leaders th... | 23 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNiall Ferguson: Henry Kissinger Reappraised, with Andrew Roberts | No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. To the late Christopher Hitchens he was a war criminal who should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. To his admirers he is the greatest strategic thinker America has e. | 16 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInside The Head Of Terry Gilliam | Terry Gilliam is one of the most multifaceted, visionary talents alive. He first found fame as a member of Monty Python, the surreal comedy troupe that has had a cult following since its inception in 1969 right up to today. Had Gilliam stopped there, h. | 9 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLet's end the tyranny of the test. Relentless school testing demeans education | British children are the most tested in the industrialised world. Is regular testing worthwhile training for success in later life, or have our schools become exam sausage factories? Our panel of experts debated whether regular school testing helps our. | 2 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYuval Noah Harari on the myths we need to survive | Myths. We tend to think they’re a thing of the past, fabrications that early humans needed to believe in because their understanding of the world was so meagre. But what if modern civilisation were itself based on a set of myths? This is the big quest | 25 9 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom the Library: Western Liberal Democracy Would Be Wrong for China | People everywhere are better off living in liberal democracy: that has been the reigning assumption of the western world. But could it be we’ve got it wrong? If you were one of the world’s billions of poor peasants might you not be better off under | 18 9 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTen Years After 9/11: The World Remade | Fourteen years on from 9/11, we revisit our event "Ten Years after 9/11: The World Remade" from 2011. In this special Intelligence Squared event, former Foreign Secretary David Miliband and other leading experts from Oxford Analytica, the glo... | 11 9 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom the Library: Jimmy Carter in Conversation with Jon Snow | President Jimmy Carter is a Nobel Prize winner, author, humanitarian, professor, farmer, naval officer and carpenter. In this special Intelligence Squared interview with Channel 4 News's Jon Snow, which took place in October 2011, President Carte... | 4 9 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEurope is failing its Muslims | The debate "Europe is failing its Muslims" took place on February 23rd at Cadogan Hall in London, in association with BBC World News and the British Council. Arguing in favour of the motion were Tariq Ramadan and Petra Stienen; against the mo... | 28 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom the Library: Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart | How do the landscapes we love shape the people we are? Why do we walk? For several years and more than a thousand miles, celebrated travel writer Robert Macfarlane has been following the vast network of old paths and routes that criss-cross Britain and. | 20 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNorman Stone on Istanbul | In this talk from October 2011 the historian Norman Stone, who has lived in Turkey since 1997, took us on a journey through the country's turbulent history, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the 11th century to the modern republic app... | 14 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIsrael Is Destroying Itself With Its Settlement Policy | Patriacide. Nationcide. Whatever you want to call it, that is what Israel is doing with its settlement policy: it is killing itself. If ever greater numbers of Jewish settlers are installed on land regarded by Palestinians as the basis for a state of t. | 7 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRoberto Saviano on the War Against Organised Crime | Roberto Saviano made a rare appearance in the UK in July 2015 when he came to the Intelligence Squared stage. In conversation with Intelligence Squared's very own Robert Collins, Saviano talked about his life in hiding and his beginnings as a repo... | 31 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJohn Gray and Adam Phillips in conversation on humankind's search for immortality | Political philosopher John Gray and psychotherapist and essayist Adam Phillips came to the Intelligence Squared stage in 2011 to discuss themes of science and immortality. Can we in the 21st century claim to be no longer gripped by the hope that someho. | 24 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDigital Summit Highlights: 'London's Star Tech Enterprise' and 'Who we are on the Web' | This week's episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast features two sessions from our recent Digital Summit with Vanity Fair. In the first session, 'Who are we on the web?' we examined how deeply the internet is affecting us as human b... | 15 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChurchill was more a liability than an asset to the free world | Does the fact that Winston Churchill is routinely cited as Britain’s greatest hero say more about us than it does about him? Yes, he warned us of the need to face down Hitler when others were urging appeasement and yes, he gave a good speech. But what | 10 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDigital Summit Highlights: 'The Hopes of the Pioneers' and 'Artificial Intelligence' | This week's episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast features two sessions from our recent Digital Summit with Vanity Fair. In the first session, 'This is For Everyone: The hopes of the pioneers', we explored the hopes and memories o... | 2 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom the library: Angela Merkel is destroying Europe | The stakes couldn’t be higher, as Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras seeks a new agreement on a bailout and German chancellor Angela Merkel refuses any talks before this Sunday’s referendum. What will happen is anyone’s guess, but for anyone look | 1 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe West should get out of bed with the House Of Saud | Have we no morals? We know that the Saudis created the monster that is Islamic terrorism, allegedly spending some $100 billion on exporting fanatical Wahhabism to other Muslim nations around the world. We know about the public beheadings and floggings,. | 25 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFaramerz Dabhoiwala on the Origins of Sex | Rising star historian Faramerz Dabhoiwala came to the Intelligence Squared stage in February 2012 to describe how the permissive society arrived in Western Europe, not in the 1960s as we like to think, but between 1600 and 1800. It began in England and. | 10 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Brooks on the Road to Character | On May 26th 2015, New York Times columnist David Brooks came to the Intelligence Squared stage to share the insights of his latest book, 'The Road to Character'. Brooks argued that today’s ‘Big Me’ culture is making us increasingly self-preoc... | 4 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJoseph Stiglitz on the Great Divide | Inequality is an increasing problem in the Western world, leaving everyone – the rich as well as the poor – worse off. The dream of a socially mobile society is becoming an ever more unachievable myth. That’s the view of Nobel Prize-winning econom | 28 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpotlight On Piketty | In this rare appearance in London, French economist Thomas Piketty appeared centre stage for Intelligence Squared, along with a panel of experts, to debate his findings of his book 'Capital in the 21st Century', an analysis of the causes and ... | 21 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPost-Election Dissection | On May 12th, before the dust had settled on the General Election, Intelligence Squared hosted a post-election dissection with pundits and politicians of all persuasions. They battled it out over what the outcome means for the future of British politics. | 14 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSimon Sebag Montefiore on Jerusalem | Jerusalem. How did this small, remote town became the Holy City, the desire of every empire, and the key to Middle East peace? In this dazzling talk from February 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore revealed the ever-changing city through its many incarnation. | 8 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe World Needs Religion Even if it Doesn't Need God | God is dead and man has no need of the myths and false consolation that religion offers. That’s the battle-cry of Richard Dawkins and other tough-minded critics of religion. And yet millions cling to their faith, finding value and meaning in the conce | 29 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Future of Parliamentary Democracy | In the wake of the MPs’ expenses scandal (May-June 2009), we brought a panel of politicians and journalists to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss the state of democracy in Britain – is the system rotten to the core, or was the expenses scanda | 24 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCan art be taught to the Facebook generation? | We were joined at the Saatchi Gallery in July 2009 by Turner Prize-winning artists Grayson Perry and Antony Gormley; author, philosopher and television presenter Alain de Botton; design critic, author and columnist Stephen Bayley and founder of the cha. | 17 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBurgundy vs Bordeaux, with Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson | Among wine lovers, there is no greater divide than that between Burgundy and Bordeaux. These are the world’s most celebrated wine regions, different places producing different styles of wine. What separates them and why the great rivalry? Many wine b | 9 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Extreme Present: An Evening of Self-Help for Planet Earth | Shumon Basar, writer, thinker and cultural critic, Douglas Coupland, the renowned author of 'Generation X', and Hans Ulrich Obrist, one of the world’s best-known curators, joined forces for a special event with Intelligence Squared to explore... | 2 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Art World is a Boys' Club | Botticelli's Venus. Warhol's Marilyn. Chen Yifei’s Beauties. Historically, the creation of art has been largely the preserve of men. And not a lot has changed. In recent years, the top 100 highest grossing living artists at auction were me... | 26 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMuhammad Yunus on a new kind of capitalism | ‘Making money is a happiness. And that’s a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.’ These are the words of Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bangladeshi economist world-famous for starting the microfinance mov | 20 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBe afraid, be very afraid: the robots are coming and they will destroy our livelihoods | They are coming to an office near you: job-gobbling robots that can do your work better and more cheaply than you can. One in three jobs could be taken over by a computer or a robot in the next 20 years. Most at risk are less skilled workers such as ma. | 13 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRembrandt Vs Vermeer: The Titans of Dutch Painting | Rembrandt van Rijn is the best known of all the Dutch masters. His range was vast, from landscapes to portraits to Biblical scenes; he revolutionised every medium he handled, from oil paintings to etchings and drawings. His vision encompassed every ele. | 5 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMoney can grow on trees: what's good for nature is good for business | Capitalists don’t care about the environment. Industry, agriculture and commerce have long exploited nature’s resources. The pursuit of profit pays scant regard to the underlying cost of using up the planet’s capital. That’s the familiar story | 27 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKeep 'em off the streets and behind bars: tough prison sentences mean a safer society | Lock them up. That’s the way we’ve always dealt with offenders. Criminals deserve to be put away for their crimes. Prison works because it keeps those criminals out of circulation, and acts as society’s most effective deterrent. Rehabilitation is | 19 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMagna Carta: Myth and Meaning | June 2015 will see the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, the ‘Great Charter’ which was signed at Runnymede by King John to resolve a political crisis he faced with his barons. Buried within its 69 clauses is one of immeasurable importance. This is t | 12 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanArt must be beautiful | In May 2011, Intelligence Squared Asia presented four leading voices in the arts to argue the motion "Art must be beautiful". Can aesthetic standards of the day dictate the long-term value of art? Who defines taste? Do parameters of instituti... | 5 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAn evening with Britain's best poets | Love. Sorrow. Anger. Death. Laughter. God. Sex. Hell. Home. Only one profession can get to the heart of that lot – the poets. And not any old poets but amongst Britain's very best: Wendy Cope, Andrew Motion and Don Paterson – plus Clive James who.. | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe High Street is dead, long live the High Street | A screen, an image, a click. Proceed to checkout. Sign for it the next day. We are the first generation to enjoy the thrill and convenience of online shopping. No queuing, no frustration at going home empty-handed, because we can always find what we’r | 22 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe War on Terror was the right response to 9/11 | Have the West’s efforts to eradicate Al-Qaeda around the world simply been fuelling the flames of hatred and violence? Or would we have suffered even more atrocities if we’d left the militants to plot in their hiding places? Is the US right to be p | 15 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBernard-Henri Lévy on the Libyan intervention and universal values | Bernard-Henri Lévy is France’s best-known public intellectual, passionately committed to the causes he believes to be just. A writer, journalist, and film-maker, he has the status of a rock star in France where he is known simply as BHL, and has rep | 8 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBeware of the dragon: Africa should not look to China | We all know that the Chinese are the neo-colonialists of Africa. They've plundered the continent of its natural resources, tossing aside any concern for human rights and doing deals with some of the world's most unsavoury regimes. The relentl... | 23 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUmberto Eco In Conversation With Paul Holdengräber | The persistence of conspiracies. Grasping the infinity of lists. Writing fiction about the real. The future of books. These are some of the topics Umberto Eco discussed with Paul Holdengräber, Director of LIVE at the New York Public Library, when he c | 18 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrian Cox & Alice Roberts on the Incredible Unlikeliness of Human Existence | Who are we? Why are we here? Are we alone in the universe? How did we become the creatures that we are? How might we further evolve? These are some of the big questions that Brian Cox and Alice Roberts tackled when they came to the Intelligence Square. | 11 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanP.J. O'Rourke: The Funniest Man in America | P.J. O'Rourke is America's premier political satirist and has more citations in The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations than any other living writer. In this live appearance for Intelligence Squared in 2010, he discussed his new book, ... | 4 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanI'd rather Be a Roundhead than a Cavalier | In the 1640s England was devastated by a civil war that divided the nation into two tribes – Roundheads and Cavaliers. Counties, towns, even families and friends were rent apart as the nation pledged its allegiance either to King Charles I (supported | 26 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Grossman in conversation with Linda Grant | One of Israel’s most acclaimed writers, David Grossman is the author of numerous pieces of fiction, nonfiction and children's literature. His work has dealt with Jewish history, the occupation of the West Bank, the cost of war and the dramas of fa... | 20 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPsychiatrists & the pharma industry are to blame for the current ‘epidemic’ of mental disorders | Drug pushers. We tend to associate them with the bleak underworld of criminality. But some would argue that there’s another class of drug pushers, just as unscrupulous, who work in the highly respectable fields of psychiatry and the pharmaceutical ind | 13 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWilliam Gibson on 'Zero History' with Cory Doctorow | On 5th October 2010, Intelligence Squared paired author William Gibson with popular blogger and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow in a wide-ranging conversation that gives a fascinating insight into the mind of the man heralded as the "architec... | 7 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStop Bashing Christians! Britain has become an anti-Christian country | Are Christians victims of a hateful animus, or are they demanding special treatment in a secular state which in fact applies the law equally to all? Peter Hitchens fears that without Christianity, we might end up undermining the whole foundation of law. | 30 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIs London too rich to be interesting? | It used to be so easy. You left university, came to London and got yourself a flatshare in one of the cheaper areas: Notting Hill, Maida Vale or Highgate. Living was cheap and if it took you a while to find out what you really wanted to do with your li. | 23 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKaren Armstrong on Religion and the History of Violence | Karen Armstrong has written over 16 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths have shaped world history and drive current events. She came to the Intelligence Squared stage. | 16 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNapoleon The Great? | How should we remember Napoleon, the man of obscure Corsican birth who rose to become emperor of the French and briefly master of Europe? As the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo approaches in 2015, Intelligence Squared brought together two . | 9 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSteven Pinker on Good Writing with Ian McEwan | Steven Pinker is one of the world’s leading authorities on language, mind and human nature. A professor of psychology at Harvard, he is the bestselling author of eight books and regularly appears in lists of the world’s top 100 thinkers. On Septemb | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrancis Fukuyama in Conversation with David Runciman | Professor Francis Fukuyama came to the Intelligence Squared stage in September, to square up with one of Britain’s most brilliant political thinkers, David Runciman, to assess how democracy is faring in 2014. We certainly haven’t attained the rosy f | 25 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMarina Abramović on art, performance, time and nothingness | Marina Abramović is the most celebrated performance artist in the world. Over a career spanning four decades she has pioneered performance as an art form and accumulated a devoted following that includes Jay-Z and Lady Gaga. Using her body as both sub | 18 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHistory Shows Us That Scotland and England Would Be Better Off as Separate Kingdoms | This event was recorded at the Chalke Valley History Festival in July 2014. The future of the Union will be voted for in a referendum soon, and this debate explored the historical relationship between Scotland and England, and the direct bearing that . | 11 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLondon Should Love Its Bankers | Do the British have a death wish? You’d be forgiven for thinking so the way so many of them seem to want to cripple the most dynamic part of their own economy. What is the world’s largest market for dollars? London. Where does the Chinese State Admi | 4 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHas Martin Luther King's Dream Been Realized? | This event was on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. On 28 August 1963, civil rights campaigners marched on Washington to secure equality before the law. Today, America’s first black president sits in the White | 29 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMoney Can't Buy Happiness | Leading voices from the fields of science, philosophy came to the Intelligence Squared Asia stage for this thought-provoking debate about the pursuit of wealth and its relationship to happiness. Among other topics, this debate raised questions about t. | 21 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUniversity is an unwise investment | For many Western teenagers university has long been considered a passport to the good life: a rite of passage consisting of mind-expanding reading and writing or the acquisition of a professional qualification, and meeting like-minded people often over. | 14 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIt's Time to End The War on Drugs | To liberalise or prohibit, that is the question. Prohibitionists argue that legalising anything increases its consumption. The world has enough of a problem with legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco, so why add to the problem by legalising cannabis, . | 4 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean"Contemporary Art Excludes the 99%" | What is the role of contemporary art museums today? Are biennales and art fairs platforms for experiment and exchange, or little more than social attractions for the elite? Have collectors become the new curators? Are private and corporate interests i | 31 7 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAmerica's Drone Campaign Is Both Moral And Effective | Bug splats. That’s what the American operators of drones, sitting in safety thousands of miles away, call the casualties of a drone attack in Pakistan or Yemen. Why bug splats? Because that’s what a human body zapped by a drone looks like on those A | 24 7 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSex, bugs & video tapes: the private lives of public figures deserve more protection from the press | Would you like the details of your sex life, private conversations, and hidden passions splashed across the pages of a British tabloid or published online? Could you do anything to stop it? In Britain, unlike in the USA or France, there is no right to . | 17 7 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanArt Schools Are Bad At Producing Good Artists | What makes a good artist? Can creativity can be taught? What kind of education ups the ante for success in today’s global culture? These are some of the questions that were explored in this Intelligence Squared Asia debate in Singapore in January 201 | 10 7 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJesus Would Have Voted Democrat | Remember the rich man and the eye of the needle? Blessed are the meek? The last shall be first? Jesus didn’t hold much truck for wealth or power, nor was he exactly a supporter of family values. He didn’t even encourage hard work (“Consider the li | 3 7 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShakespeare vs Milton: The Kings of English Literature Debate | Nearly four centuries after his death, no writer has come close to matching Shakespeare’s understanding of the world – or his gift for dramatic poetry. It’s not just kings and queens that he captured so uniquely in his transcendent verse. Shakespe | 26 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Journey Into Outer Space, With Brian Cox | Are they out there? Intelligent beings from another world. Will we ever make contact with them? Is it even sensible to make guesses about whether life exists in other galaxies billions of light years from our own? How much do we know about outer space?. | 19 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanVS Naipaul in Conversation With Geordie Greig | Nobel laureate and giant of Western letters, Trinidad-born V. S. Naipaul has excelled in both fiction and non-fiction. His latest book The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief is a travelogue in which Naipaul sets out to discover how far the ol. | 12 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStop Poking the Bear: The West Needs to Engage with Putin Not Castigate Him | You don’t have to like Vladimir Putin, or doubt that he’s a nasty piece of work, to recognise that the Russian president’s reaction to the crisis in Ukraine is largely justified. The promise that Russia managed to extract from the West, as it watc | 5 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow to Think Like a Freak: Learn How to Make Smarter Decisions with the authors of "Freakonomics" | The books Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics have been worldwide sensations, selling tens of millions of copies. They have come to stand for challenging conventional wisdom using data rather than emotion. Questions they examine are typically: Which is . | 29 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLook West Not East: South America Will be the 21st Century's Superpower | Conventional wisdom tells us that a new star will rise in the East, and all eyes have been looking towards China or India as the 21st century’s new superpower. But remarkable as their recent economic growth may have been, the institutional frailty of | 21 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War Two Was Unjustifiable | No one doubts the bravery of the thousands of men who flew and died in Bomber Command. The death rate was an appalling 44%. And yet until the opening of a monument in Green Park this year they have received no official recognition, with many historians. | 12 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCalm Down Dears: State Snooping Is A Price Worth Paying For Our Security | So now we know: our spooks and their spooks are hoovering up and exchanging massive amounts of data on our private lives: not just whom we phone and email but the actual content of our communications; not just which websites we visit but what we choose. | 7 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWestern Parents Don't Know How to Bring Up Their Children | Why are there so many Chinese maths and music prodigies? Because Chinese mothers believe schoolwork and music practice come first, that an A-minus is a bad grade, that sleepovers, TV and computer games should never be allowed and that the only activity. | 1 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Making Of The Modern Middle East: Lawrence of Arabia and King Faisal I | How much blame for the current troubles in the Middle East lies with the decisions made by the West in 1919 – when the Ottoman Empire was carved up arbitrarily into the modern states we know today? Is it true that Arab society has tended to define its | 24 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBritain Should Not Have Fought In The First World War | As we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, books, television documentaries and articles on the subject abound. So do different opinions, especially as to whether Britain’s engagement was worth it. Was it a vitally important | 17 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStephen Fry and Friends on the Life, Loves and Hates of Christopher Hitchens | In this historic event, Stephen Fry and other friends of Christopher Hitchens came together to celebrate the life and work of this great writer, polemicist and orator. Fry was joined on stage in London by Richard Dawkins where the two discussed Hitche. | 11 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Hand that Rocks the Cradle Cannot Rock the Boardroom | Is it a myth that women can have it all, all of the time? Or do the rising numbers of female executives in Hong Kong and around the world suggest otherwise? Does the glass ceiling exist as a barrier to the boardroom, or is the only limitation to a woma. | 3 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Best Chance For Peace In Israel And Palestine Is For Uncle Sam To Butt Out | Is it surprising that the Israelis and Palestinians are still unable to come to some sort of agreement? After all if the adjudicator in a mediation is firmly on your side why bother to concede anything to the enemy? Conversely, why accept anything prop. | 27 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOne Size Doesn’t Fit All: Democracy is Not Always the Best Form of Government | Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. So said Winston Churchill and who would disagree? One man, one vote, the rule of law, equality and a free press. These are the principles which tens of thousands have. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSam Harris on the Science of Good and Evil | Where do our ideas about morality and meaning come from? Most people - from religious extremists to secular scientists - would agree on one point: that science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, science's failure to explain... | 13 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBetween You and I The English Language Is Going To The Dogs | Speaking and writing correct English are the hallmark of an intelligent person. No one who cares about language wants to be caught splitting an infinitive or muddling up ‘infer’ and ‘imply’. Which is why the bestseller lists are regularly topped | 6 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJane Austen Vs Emily Bronte: The Queens of English Literature Debate | Who was the Queen of English literature. Was it Jane Austen with her sensitive ear for the hypocrisy lurking beneath the genteel conversation in the drawing rooms of Georgian England? Or Emily Brontë with the complex tale of violent attraction, thwarte | 27 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNiall Ferguson On The Six Killer Apps Of Western Civilisation | Niall Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation. In this talk from February 2011, based on his book 'Civilisation: The West and the Rest', he asks how Western civilization came to dominate the rest of the world. His... | 20 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean"Let The Bad Guys Be: The Perils of Foreign Intervention" with David Aaronovitch and Rory Stewart | Some leaders are so objectionable – Bashar al-Assad, Robert Mugabe – that it may seem only right to strain every sinew to get rid of them. But ghastly as their regimes may be, is there any reason to think that foreign intervention makes the situatio | 13 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDaniel Goleman On Focus: The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment | Psychologist Daniel Goleman shot to fame with his groundbreaking bestseller 'Emotional Intelligence'. The premise of the book, now widely accepted, is that raw intelligence alone is not a sure predictor of success in life. A greater role is p... | 6 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWe've Never Had It So Good | It's 2014 and what does Britain have to look forward to? Osborne’s welfare cuts. An umpteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother. Adult children still living at home and cadging off the Bank of Mum and Dad (repayment not guaranteed). That’s the grip.. | 30 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAn Evening With Slavoj Zizek | Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced | 23 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLet Them Come: We Have Nothing To Fear From High Levels Of Immigration | Does mass immigration boost our economy and cultural richness or undermine them? Hear Times columnist David Aaronovitch, former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and the economist Susie Symes go head to head with UKIP's Nigel Farage, Demos director ... | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSteven Pinker on The Better Angels of Our Nature | We launch our first podcast of the year today – our 2011 talk by the world renowned American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. In it he argues that, contrary to popular belief, we are living in the least violent period of history. And that even the h | 9 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanVerdi vs Wagner: The 200th Anniversary Debate with Stephen Fry | Think opera and you think Verdi. Verdi created some of the most beloved operas of all time, from the romantic tragedy of La traviata and Rigoletto to the Shakespearian dramas of Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff Verdi’s music transcends the barriers betwe | 23 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEric Schmidt On The New Digital Age | Eric Schmidt is one of the leading visionaries of our time. He has taken Google from a small start-up to one of the world’s most influential companies. In this conversation with Bryan Appleyard from May 2013, he sets out the themes of his new book . | 20 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAn Anatomy Of Truth: Conversations on Truth-Telling | Not everyone tells the truth. ‘Read my lips: no new taxes.’ ‘This isn’t going to hurt.’ ‘I see no ships, my lord.’ ‘Of course I love you.’ When can we know what to believe? Four out of five of us don’t think politicians tell the trut | 20 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPutin Has Been Good For Russia | There’s not a lot to like about Vladimir Putin: he’s autocratic, vain and runs a corrupt government. And he doesn’t give a fig for human rights. The repression in Chechnya, the jailing of the (now pardoned) businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the | 19 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNate Silver On The Art And Science Of Prediction | Nate Silver is the 35-year-old data engineer and forecaster with superstar status. He shot to fame in 2008 for correctly predicting the outcome in 49 out of 50 states in the US presidential election. In 2012, when most media pundits and political analy. | 19 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAngela Merkel is Destroying Europe | They're calling her the devil. Inflammatory words, but Europe has every reason to be livid with the German Chancellor. Angela Merkel’s austerity measures are strangling the economies of the southern nations of Europe, creating huge unemployment an... | 18 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJimmy Carter in Conversation with Jon Snow | President Jimmy Carter is a Nobel Prize winner, author, humanitarian, professor, farmer, naval officer and carpenter. In this special Intelligence Squared interview with Channel 4 News's Jon Snow, which took place in October 2011, President Cart... | 18 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSend Them Back: The Parthenon Marbles Should be Returned to Athens | What’s all this nonsense about sending the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece? If Lord Elgin hadn’t rescued them from the Parthenon in Athens and presented them to the British Museum almost 200 years ago, these exquisite sculptures – the finest embo | 16 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe West Has Failed Syria | To say “The West has failed Syria” tempts us into the dangerous belief that had we only got stuck into this conflict from the off, things would now be better. It’s a belief, as recent history shows, we badly need to resist. So speaks the voice of | 16 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Catholic Church is a Force For Good in The World | Can anything good really be said of an institution that has such a warped attitude to sex that it tries to stop the world from wearing a condom, is bitterly opposed to gays leading a fulfilled life and regards women as unworthy of officiating in its ri. | 13 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDaniel Dennett on Tools to Transform our Thinking | Daniel Dennett is one of the world’s most original and provocative thinkers. A philosopher and cognitive scientist, he is known as one of the ‘Four Horseman of New Atheism’ along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens. | 12 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThomas Friedman: A Manifesto For Rescuing America | 14. Thomas Friedman: A manifesto for rescuing America Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist – the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of six bestselling books, and writes a twice-weekly column | 11 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Eagleman on the Science of De- (and Re-) Humanisation (and Why it Matters) | Which side were you on? The Jets or the Sharks? The Capulets or the Montagues? The Greeks or the Trojans? Antony or Caesar? William or Harold? And so the list goes on ... Indeed, maybe the whole of human history is the story of group-making and group-b. | 11 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNaomi Wolf on 'Vagina: A New Biography' | American author Naomi Wolf made her name with The Beauty Myth, a book that exposed the tyranny of the ideal of female beauty. Now she’s back with a no less dramatic or controversial new work. In Vagina: A New Biography Wolf makes the case that the vag | 10 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChris Anderson on the Democratisation of Manufacturing, Design and Technology | In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed... Check out today's Advent podcast where Wired Magazine editor Chris Ande... | 10 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJeffrey Sachs on JFK and His Quest For Peace | How can leadership lessons from the past be applied to intractable international problems today? In this talk from July 2013, shortly before the 50th anniversary of President John F Kennedy's assignation, the world renowned economist Jeffrey Sach... | 6 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTerry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton | What really divides the left and the right? To answer this question, Intelligence Squared brought together two giants of British intellectual culture for an ideological reckoning: Terry Eagleton, literary critic and long-time hero of the radical left, . | 6 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDan Pink on the Science of Buoyancy | It happens to all of us every day. You get rejected. Your customer doesn’t buy. Your boss doesn’t agree. Your crush doesn’t say yes. In this provocative and entertaining talk, Daniel Pink, author of the New York Times best seller Drive, harvests | 4 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMichael Sandel on the Moral Limits of Markets | Should we pay children to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Michael Sandel is one of th. | 4 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRobert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart | How do the landscapes we love shape the people we are? Why do we walk? For several years and more than a thousand miles, celebrated travel writer Robert Macfarlane has been following the vast network of old paths and routes that criss-cross Britain and. | 4 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWestern Liberal Democracy Would be Wrong for China | People everywhere are better off living in liberal democracy: that has been the reigning assumption of the western world. But could it be we’ve got it wrong? If you were one of the world’s billions of poor peasants might you not be better off under | 2 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPornography is Good For Us: Without it We Would Be a Far More Repressed Society | Hooray for porn! What would we be without it? Bored, repressed, frustrated. Porn allows the timid to indulge fantasies they’d never live out in real life and the adventurous to experiment with new forms of pleasure. Now that it has stepped down from t | 1 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBoth Britain and the EU Would Be Happier if They got Divorced | Some people just can’t bring themselves to acknowledge that a relationship is over. Finished. Unsalvageable. David Cameron, for instance. His long awaited speech on Europe has been one big exercise in denial. Yes, we should stay married to Europe, he | 1 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIntelligence Squared Presents the Elders | Independent, free now from the constraints of office, with a wealth of experience and the ability to open doors at the highest level, The Elders are helping tackle some of the world’s most intractable problems. On 2nd July 2012, we brought together t | 28 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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