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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…
Episodes
Intelligence SquaredOutraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking, with Ashley 'Dotty' Charles and Ash Sarkar
In this week's episode BBC presenter and DJ Ashley 'Dotty' Charles joins us to discuss her new book 'Outrage' and the insatiable appetite for anger in today's…
Intelligence SquaredPutin's People with Catherine Belton and Edward Lucas
Former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized…
Intelligence SquaredDebate: Iran Is Not Our Enemy
Is Iran an enemy to be confronted or a potential ally to engage with? In this week's podcast we debate 'Iran is not our enemy' with Mehdi Hasan, Azadeh…
Intelligence SquaredCity on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong, With Antony Dapiran and Shirley Yu
In this week's episode writer and lawyer Antony Dapiran joins us from Hong Kong to discuss the protests and turmoil that have engulfed the city since the…
Intelligence SquaredThe Reckoning: Kwame Kwei-Armah and Idris Elba on the Arts and Black Lives Matter
A great reckoning is taking place in the wake of the brutal killing of George Floyd and the protests that followed his death. Companies and organisations are…
Intelligence SquaredWe Need To Talk: Me and White Supremacy, with Layla Saad and Emma Dabiri
Amidst the current global conversation around police brutality in the United States and the experience of black people the world over, this week we speak to…
Intelligence SquaredUnravelling Unconscious Bias, with Dr Pragya Agarwal and Kavita Puri
In the wake of sweeping protests about racism and police brutality, this week we speak to Dr Pragya Agarwal to unravel the way our implicit or 'unintentional'…
Intelligence SquaredWhy do Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump? With Sarah Posner and Brian Klaas
Why does Donald Trump have such a good relationship with white evangelical christians despite his questionable conservative credentials? In this week's episode…
Intelligence SquaredStatues, Slavery and the Struggle for Equality with David Olusoga, Dawn Butler and Susan Neiman
Following the death of George Floyd, global Black Lives Matter protests, and debates raging over statues from Colston to Churchill, Intelligence Squared hosted…
Intelligence SquaredThe New Long Life: Flourishing in a Changing World, with Lynda Gratton and Andrew J Scott
If we live to 100, will we ever really stop working? And how will an aging society change the way we love, manage and learn from others? In this week's episode…
Intelligence SquaredAnand Giridharadas on Capitalism in the Time of Corona
In his 2019 book Winners Take All, Anand Giridharadas launched a searing attack on the global elites. Now he turns his thoughts to the post-pandemic world. Is…
Intelligence SquaredThe Passion Economy with Adam Davidson and Hugo Lindgren
Are the middle classes really dying off? Will robots really take our jobs? Contrary to common belief Adam Davidson argues the twenty-first-century economic…
Intelligence SquaredTogether: The Healing Power of Human Connection, with Dr Vivek Murthy and Ros Urwin
In this week's episode former Surgeon General of the United States, Dr Vivek Murthy speaks to Ros Urwin about how he discovered first hand how loneliness lies…
Intelligence SquaredNervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World, with Will Davies and Carl Miller
Why do so many of us no longer trust experts, facts and statistics? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? And how can the history of ideas help us…
Intelligence SquaredPutting Peer Pressure to Work with Robert H Frank and Linda Yueh
In this week's episode Robert H. Frank, author of 'Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work' speaks to Linda Yueh about how our social environments…
Intelligence SquaredNo Visible Bruises: Why What we don't know about domestic violence can kill, with Rachel Louise Snyder
In this week's episode award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder speaks to Helen Lewis about some common misconceptions about domestic violence: that it…
Intelligence SquaredThe Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, with David Kilcullen and Carl Miller
In this episode, leading soldier-scholar David Kilcullen speaks to Carl Miller about how the West’s opponents have learned from twenty-first-century conflict…
Intelligence SquaredThe Classical School, with Callum Williams and Linda Yueh
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Intelligence SquaredThe Corona Crash: How Bad Will It Be? With Mark Blyth and Anne McElvoy
Intelligence Squared+. The world's best speakers. Your questions. £4.99 per month. Intelligence Squared+ will bring you live, interactive events every week on…
Intelligence SquaredThe Great Slowdown and Why It's Good, with Danny Dorling and Linda Yueh
Intelligence Squared+. The world's best speakers. Your questions. £4.99 per month. Intelligence Squared+ will bring you live, interactive events every week on…
Intelligence SquaredAbolish Silicon Valley, with Wendy Liu and Carl Miller
Intelligence Squared+. The world's best speakers. Your questions. £4.99 per month. Intelligence Squared+ will bring you live, interactive events every week on…
Intelligence SquaredUltras: Among The World's Most Extreme Fans, with James Montague and Ros Urwin
Ultras are football fans like no others. A hugely visible and controversial part of the sporting game. This movement of extreme fandom and politics is also one…
Intelligence SquaredCoronavirus and the Stats: Your Questions Answered
Feeling confused by all the data and metrics about coronavirus that are flying around? In this episode, Britain’s most eminent statistician David…
Intelligence SquaredWho We Listen To And Who We Don't, with Stephen Martin, Joseph Marks and Helen Lewis
Why are self-confident ignoramuses so often believed? Why are thoughtful experts so often given the cold shoulder? And why do apparently irrelevant details…
Intelligence SquaredCoronavirus and the Economy: Your Questions Answered
What will the long-term economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic be? For the fourth in a new series of interactive events from Intelligence Squared -…
Intelligence SquaredHype, Smoke and Mirrors, with Gemma Milne and Carl Miller
Hype has a dark side. It can mislead, distract and blinker us from seeing what is actually going on. In this episode we are joined by Gemma Milne, tech…
Intelligence SquaredCoronavirus and Global Politics: Your Questions Answered
The coronavirus pandemic threatens to remake the world's political systems. But how exactly? In the third in a new series of interactive events from…
Intelligence SquaredThe Unravelling of the Modern Middle East, with Kim Ghattas and Brian Klaas
It all started in 1979. According to Kim Ghattas, the former BBC journalist and author of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the…
Intelligence SquaredMind, Matter and Meaning, with Brian Greene and Tom Whipple
In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws. In this episode we are joined by…
Intelligence SquaredCoronavirus: Your Questions Answered
How can we protect ourselves from coronavirus? How long will the current situation last? Why has the death rate been so high in Italy? And why have some other…
Intelligence SquaredCoronavirus and Morality: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Ritula Shah in conversation
The UK's former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks appears in this special episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast, recorded remotely while he self-isolates in his…
Intelligence SquaredA Century of Conflict, with Rashid Khalidi and Jonathan Freedland
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been raging for decades, with seemingly no end in sight. In this episode, we are joined by Rashid Khalidi…
Intelligence SquaredRadical Uncertainty, with Mervyn King, John Kay and Jesse Norman
In these incredibly uncertain times, we're exploring the concept of 'radical uncertainty' in this episode with Mervyn King, the former Governor of the Bank of…
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Kate Murphy and Ros Urwin on the Importance of Listening
When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? At work, we’re taught to lead the conversation. On social media, we shape…
Intelligence SquaredEighty Is The New Thirty: A Guide To Getting Older, PART 1
We tend to associate old age with deterioration, especially of our mental powers and memory. But today we are seeing a new cohort of the so-called young-old…
Intelligence SquaredOne Of Them, with Michael Cashman and Razia Iqbal
Michael Cashman has been an actor, a politician and one of the pioneers of the struggle for LGBT equality in the UK. He is the author of a new book titled One…
Intelligence SquaredDifficult Women: The Defining Fights of Feminism, with Helen Lewis and Caroline Criado Perez
In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we are joined by Helen Lewis, staff writer for the Atlantic, who claims that too many pioneers of women’s…
Intelligence SquaredWhy Myanmar Matters, with Thant Myint-U and Ros Urwin
In this episode we are joined by Thant Myint-U, the Burmese historian, former adviser to the President of Myanmar, and author of The Hidden History of Burma…
Intelligence SquaredArmando Iannucci, Jess Phillips and Jan Ravens on Satire in an Age of Absurdity
Has satire lost its power in this new world of fake news and ‘alternative facts’ - when our leaders lie so blatantly and frequently, and still manage to get…
Intelligence SquaredHow Humanity Can Survive the Climate Crisis, with Christiana Figueres and Ritula Shah
In this episode we are joined by Christiana Figueres, the former UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change who was one of the key negotiators behind the Paris…
Intelligence SquaredTo Stop Climate Collapse, We Must End Capitalism
Capitalism is driving us to disaster. Our planet is heading for a terrifying environmental cataclysm – and our economic system is responsible. The defining…
Intelligence SquaredMore From Less, with Andrew McAfee and Hugo Lindgren
In this episode we are joined by Andrew McAfee, the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of More From Less: The Surprising Story…
Intelligence SquaredZombie Economics, with Paul Krugman and Linda Yueh
In this episode we are joined by Paul Krugman, Nobel prize-winning economist and author of Arguing With Zombies: Economics, Politics and the Fight for a Better…
Intelligence SquaredSocial Mobility and Making It in Modern Britain, with Hashi Mohamed and Razia Iqbal
This episode is an exploration of social mobility and inequality in contemporary Britain, featuring Hashi Mohamed, author of People Like Us. Hashi came to the…
Intelligence SquaredTrailblazers: Letters to my Younger Self
For the second installment of our Trailblazers series, Intelligence Squared has partnered with gal-dem to bring together a collection of outstanding women –…
Intelligence SquaredThe Power of the Scrum, with JJ Sutherland and Hugo Lindgren
In this episode, we are joined by JJ Sutherland, the business expert and author of The Scrum Fieldbook. In conversation with the journalist Hugo Lindgren, he…
Intelligence SquaredDebate: There’s Not Much Great About Britain
In this episode, our panel of top speakers battle it out over whether Brits should be proud or ashamed of their country. Is the phrase 'Great Britain' an…
Intelligence SquaredThe 'Desk Killers' of History, with Dan Gretton and Ros Urwin
In this episode we are joined by Dan Gretton, the author of I You We Them: Journeys Beyond Evil: The Desk Killer in History and Today. In an interview with Ros…
Intelligence SquaredBJ Fogg on Redesigning Habits and Human Behaviour
BJ Fogg is a pioneering research psychologist and founder of the iconic Behavior Design Lab at Stanford which has taught everyone from the founders of…
Intelligence SquaredThe Philosophy of Polar Exploration, with Erling Kagge and Razia Iqbal
Erling Kagge, author of Philosophy for Polar Explorers, was the first man in history to reach all of the Earth's poles by foot – the North, the South, and the…
Intelligence SquaredThere Is No Planet B, with Mike Berners-Lee and Matthew Taylor
In this episode we were joined by Mike Berners-Lee, the climate change expert and author of There Is No Planet B: A Handbook For The Make Or Break Years. He…
Intelligence SquaredFormer UK Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson Discusses How He Beat Obesity, and the Long Road Ahead for Labour
In this episode we were joined by Tom Watson, the Deputy Leader of the UK Labour Party who only recently stood down at last year's general election. He is now…
Intelligence SquaredThe Wonders of Nanotechnology, with Sonia Contera and Tom Whipple
In this episode we were joined by Sonia Contera, Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Oxford and the author of Nano Comes to Life: How…
Intelligence SquaredFighting Back Against Big Tech, with Rana Foroohar and Ros Urwin
In this episode we were joined by Rana Foroohar, FT global business columnist and author of Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech, alongside Ros Urwin of…
Intelligence SquaredOld World vs New World: The Great Wine Debate, with Oz Clarke and Jancis Robinson
France, Italy, Spain, Germany: these are the ancient Old World wine-growing regions of Europe, where continuity and history reign supreme. California…
Intelligence SquaredPrivacy in an Age of Surveillance, with James Bennet and Jamie Bartlett
In this episode we were joined by The New York Times' editorial page editor James Bennet, to discuss the The New York Times' fascinating new editorial project…
Intelligence SquaredThe Education of an Idealist, with Samantha Power and Helen Lewis
In this episode we were joined by Samantha Power, the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama from 2013 to 2017 and author…
Intelligence SquaredThe West Should Make Amends With Putin
Is it high time for a rapprochement with Putin? As the transatlantic alliance flounders and Britain wallows in Brexit psychodrama, Europe can no longer afford…
Intelligence SquaredHOLIDAY BONUS: The Year in Review
As 2019 comes to a close, the Intelligence Squared team look back at some of their highlights from the year, both on the Intelligence Squared stage and on the…
Intelligence SquaredChris Wylie on Whistleblowing the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal
This episode features an interview from How I Found My Voice, another podcast by Intelligence Squared. Presented by the prominent BBC journalist Samira Ahmed…