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Intelligence Squared
Ideas shape the world. Intelligence Squared brings you the conversations that explain them. In every episode, we bring together leading thinkers, writers, scientists, policymakers and entrepreneurs, to challenge assumptions, test ideas and debate the questions shaping our future. If you want to think more clearly about the world and where it's heading, you're in the right place. If you’d like to support our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations, as well as ad-free…
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The Sunday Debate: Has the Political Establishment Failed America?
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How Social Media Rewired our Brains and our World, with Max Fisher
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The Futureverse: Undervalued – Is the Future of Art Female?
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How to Improve the World for the Generations to Come, with Will MacAskill
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The Sunday Debate: Reflections on the Collapse of the Soviet Union, with Timothy Garton Ash and Ivan Krastev
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Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin, with Philip Short
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Lessons from the American Civil War, with Sarah Churchwell and Karen Joy Fowler
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Let’s Talk: How to Have Better Conversations, with Nihal Arthanayake
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The Sunday Debate: Should the West defend Taiwan?
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The Science of Anti-Ageing, with Nicklas Brendborg
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Spies, Communism and the Battle to Win the Cold War, with Scott Anderson
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Too Woke? How Society's Best Intentions Could Be Betraying Black America, with John McWhorter
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The Sunday Debate: Prosecute Trump
On January 6 2021 a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S Capitol seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. Rioters overran police and broke through…
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Engineering for Change, with Will Butler-Adams
With the climate crisis mounting, cycling is often touted as being part of the solution for how we can make our cities less congested, more green and generally…
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Afghanistan After The Withdrawal: What Lessons Have We Learned?
One year ago the United States decided to withdraw from Afghanistan after two decades in the country. The Taliban, a militant Islamist group that ran most of…
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Salman Rushdie: Touchstones with Razia Iqbal
For this archive episode from 2021, journalist and BBC News broadcaster Razia Iqbal is joined by the acclaimed author Salman Rushdie to discuss his cultural…
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The Sunday Debate: The Bittersweet Truth About What We Eat
To unpack the truth behind the often confusing information about the food we eat, in this archive discussion from 2017, Intelligence Squared brought together…
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Western Intervention and the Rise of Guerrilla Warfare, with David Kilcullen
This month will mark a year since the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021 and the chaotic withdrawal of western forces from Afghanistan. In this archive…
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An Honest Life, with Micheal Leviton
In an era of fake news and 'alternative facts', the issue of truth and how it is presented to the world has never been more timely. But on a personal level…
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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, with Reni Eddo-Lodge
Reni Eddo-Lodge, the journalist, podcaster and author of essential book, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, joins columnist, author and…
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The Sunday Debate: If You Believe You are a Citizen of the World, You are a Citizen of Nowhere
In this archive debate, we revisit a discussion from 2018 when an assembled panel of smart thinkers gathered to reflect on the concept of nationhood…
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Shinzo Abe's Legacy and Japan's Future, with Satona Suzuki and Jeff Kingston
Japan's recently assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe was a leader who leaves behind a complex legacy. Internationally, he strengthened Japan's…
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The Future of the War in Ukraine, with Fiona Hill
We welcome back Fiona Hill, the foreign affairs and national security expert, to discuss Putin, foreign policy, and what could lie ahead for the war in…
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Reclaiming the Earth: Exploring Race, Heritage and the Natural World
For this episode focusing on how craft, creativity and our relationship with the planet can help us rethink established narratives and contribute to addressing…
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The Sunday Debate: Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War
For this week's Sunday Debate, we're dipping back into the archive to 2014, when we gathered a panel of expert historians to debate whether Britain was right…
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How to Lead a Sustainable Business – Emma Dabiri on Reinventing Stories Around Race
For this edition of Intelligence Squared, we join Alannah Weston, Chairman of Selfridges Group, for her podcast How to Lead a Sustainable Business, in which…
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Putin’s Long War: From Chechnya to Ukraine, with John Sweeney
In the midst of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, award-winning journalist John Sweeney reported from Kiev, drawing on his decades of experience covering stories…
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Why Religion Keeps Evolving, with Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar has been hailed as one of the most insightful and creative evolutionary thinkers of our time, famed for his work on human networks and communities…
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The Sunday Debate: Angela Merkel is Destroying Europe
In this archive listen from 2013, we explore the global political impact of a leader whose legacy and influence is still being questioned today: Angela Merkel…
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The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz to Warn the World, with Jonathan Freedland
During the Second World War, Rudolph Vrba was one of the very few people to escape the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He did so along with fellow…
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Breaking the Power of Big Tech, with Jamie Susskind
Trolling, conspiracy theories, racist algorithms, cyberwarfare – every day our headlines are ablaze with negative stories about the internet. The problem? The…
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Next Steps for an Anti-Racist Society, with Ibram X. Kendi
Activist, academic and author Ibram X. Kendi joins us for a discussion on his new book, How to Raise an Antiracist. It follows his Intelligence Squared talk…
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The Sunday Debate: The Battle for the Countryside, with George Monbiot, Rory Stewart, Minette Batters and Mark Cocker
This event was recorded on the 10th of July 2018 in London SPEAKERS FOR THE MOTION: Mark Cocker - Author and naturalist and George Monbiot - Guardian…
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The Magical World of Animal Senses, with Ed Yong
What do bees sense in flowers? What do songbirds hear in each others’ tunes? And what’s that smell sending your dog running up the street? These questions and…
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The Futureverse: Reimagining Worth
How do we define value? How has this changed over time? And who decides what is deemed valuable? For centuries, society has seen value mainly through an…
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Doughnut Economics, with Kate Raworth
Oxford University economist Kate Raworth has been described by the author and environmentalist George Monbiot as, "The John Maynard Keynes of the 21st…
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The Sunday Debate: Hip-hop vs Shakespeare
Created in partnership with Sotheby's, in a debate that spans the centuries, Peabody Award-winning spoken word performer George the Poet and Booker…
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A Life in Forensic Psychiatry, with Dr Ben Cave
What is it like to treat some of the most troubled men and women in society? Dr Ben Cave is a forensic psychiatrist whose 35-year career has been spent helping…
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Them’s the Breaks: Boris Johnson’s Resignation and Britain’s Political Crisis, with Jonathan Freedland, Simon Jenkins and Manveen Rana
In a special programme following the resignation of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the UK, we hear from columnist, author and former foreign correspondent…
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The Hunt for the Missing Cryptoqueen, with Jamie Bartlett
Dr Ruja Ignatova, an Oxford-educated, self-styled cryptocurrency guru, promised her followers a financial revolution through her project: OneCoin. Then, in…
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On Speaking and Being: The Power of Words, with Kübra Gümüsay
Language is expressive, a way of opening doors or a tool for creating new dialogue. But a tool so powerful can also take us to unforeseen or unintended places…
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The Sunday Debate: Has Sex Positivity Harmed Feminism?
In today's world, we're often encouraged to think that sex is no longer a subject burdened with shame or repressed feelings. Rather, it is pleasurable…
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Eton, Oxford, Westminster: The Formative Pipeline of Britain's Ruling Elite, with Simon Kuper
Across Britain, it’s no secret that the people who make up the country's elected government have gone through the same familiar educational pipeline. Eton…
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Escaping Xinjiang, with Nury Turkel
In recent years China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghur ethnic group in the northwestern region…
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Why We Fight, with Christopher Blattman
Christopher Blattman is an economist, political scientist and Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago. His new…
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The Sunday Debate: The Northern Ireland Question: Is it Time to Abandon The Protocol?
The Northern Ireland Protocol – agreed between the United Kingdom and the European Union in 2019 – has been a source of tension since it came into force at the…
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Neighbouring Russia, with Erika Fatland
Tracing Russia’s vast border, which meets those of 14 other countries, helps tells the history of Russia itself. From its imperial past to Soviet-era…
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How to Be an Antiracist, with Ibram X. Kendi
Activist, historian and academic Ibram X. Kendi's book, How To Be and Antiracist, won the National Book Award for nonfiction as well as topping bestseller…
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The Hidden World of Bisexuality, with Julia Shaw
Bisexuality is the world’s largest sexual minority but is potentially the least understood. In her new book, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of…
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The Sunday Debate: Parenting Doesn’t Matter (Or Not As Much As You Think)
We delve back into the archive to 2018, when we held a debate getting to the heart of nature vs nurture. How much do our parents influence the people that we…
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Bittersweet: Finding Purpose in Sorrow, with Susan Cain
Susan Cain shot to fame in 2012 with her international bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, in which she urged society…
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How To Live With Each Other, with Farhan Samanani
In an increasingly polarised world, it’s not often we get books saying that difference is our greatest strength. But Farhan Samanani is a Canadian social…
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Count your Blessings: The Natural Beauty of Mathematics, with Junaid Mubeen
Whether rapidly advancing artificial intelligence will eventually become a friend or foe to humanity is a pressing question when it comes to technology. But…
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The Sunday Debate: We Were Right To Brexit
It was always going to be a disaster. Queues of HGVs stretching miles from Dover. The Good Friday Agreement threatened by the controversial Northern Ireland…
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The New Food Revolution, with George Monbiot
George Monbiot is a journalist, campaigner and author, who is telling the world that the time for action on the climate crisis is now. His latest book…
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Something Extra from Intelligence Squared
Intelligence Squared podcast is the home of lively debate and deep-dive discussion. Now we’re adding extra depth to our audio content via Apple Podcasts with…
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How to Lead a Sustainable Business, with Alannah Weston and Leslie Johnston
In this episode of Intelligence Squared's How to Lead a Sustainable Business with Alannah Weston podcast, Alannah is joined by Leslie Johnston, CEO of the…
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The Power of Demography, with Paul Morland
Does the world have too many people – or not enough? That’s one of the big questions that demographer Paul Morland seeks to answer in his new book, Tomorrow’s…
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The Sunday Debate: Blame Liberals For the Rise of Populism
A delve into the archive and back to 2019 when we debated a motion asking whether the left’s policies of high immigration and multiculturalism caused the…
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The Joy of Science, with Jim Al-Khalili
Professor Jim Al-Khalili is the physicist who makes science look easy. He’s the author of several books, the latest of which is The Joy of Science, which…