Intelligence Squared
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Rutger Bregman on Human Kindness in a Frightene...
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared------Human beings, we’re taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. From Hobbes’ theory about the state of nature to Richard Dawkins’ ‘selfish gene’, the ...
57 min
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Dark Money and Dirty Politics, with Peter Geogh...
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared------Democracy is in crisis, and unaccountable and untraceable flows of money are helping to destroy it. According to Peter Geoghegan, politicians lie gleefully, making wil...
39 min
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The Hidden Power of Caste, with Isabel Wilkerso...
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.--------Race, class, gender. These are the categories that are commonly thought to define our lives. But Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson argues that ultimate...
55 min
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Ghost Ships and Geopolitics, with Ian Urbina an...
Ian Urbina, investigative reporter of The New York Times for 17 years returns to the podcast to discuss a new investigation, which he believes to uncover the largest known case of illegal fishing perpetrated by a single industrial fleet operat...
32 min
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Partition Voices, with Kavita Puri and Rajini V...
The division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 into India and Pakistan saw millions uprooted and resulted in unspeakable violence. It happened far away, but it would shape modern Britain. In this week's episode Kavita Puri speaks to Rajini Vaidya...
46 min
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Can business deliver social good after Covid-19...
As Covid-19 continues to suspend normal life across much of the globe, many commentators have argued the present moment offers a unique opening to re-imagine our societies and economic system. On this week's episode we delved into this topic with ...
34 min
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Deepfakes and the Infocalypse with Nina Schick ...
In this week's podcast Nina Schick speaks to Carl Miller about the rise of Deepfakes and what she believes is an impending 'Infocalypse'. Advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for example using Facebook), a powerful ma...
43 min
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Niall Ferguson On What History Can Teach Us Abo...
There are few big thinkers better placed to explain the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic than historian Niall Ferguson. In addition to his profound understanding of past crises, since early March he has been meticulously collatin...
56 min
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An Artificial Revolution, with Ivana Bartoletti...
In this week's episode world-leading privacy expert Ivana Bartoletti speaks about the reality behind the AI revolution, from the low-paid workers who train algorithms to recognise cancerous polyps, to the rise of data violence and the sym...
42 min
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Slavoj Žižek and Shahidha Bari on Hegel in a Wi...
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek speaks to Shahidha Bari about the philosophical giant that changed our way of thinking about posthumanism. Together they investigate what he might have...
40 min
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Tony Blair and Andrew Adonis on Ernest Bevin, B...
In this rare public appearance together, chaired by the BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan, the former Labour prime minister Tony Blair and cabinet minister Andrew Adonis discussed how the man known as ‘the working-class John Bull’ grew to become one of this co...
45 min
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Science Fictions, with Stuart Ritchie and Tom W...
Medicine, education, health, parenting – wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance and answers. In this episode Stuart Ritchie discusses his new book 'Science Fictions' and reveals the disturbing flaws that undermine our und...
41 min
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Sex Robots & Vegan Meat, with Jenny Kleeman and...
Award-winning journalist and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on a journey into the world of the people who are changing what it means to be human. Focusing on the central pillars of the human experience–birth, food, ...
42 min
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Angrynomics: Why The World is So Angry, with Ma...
Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise, when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer the world most of us experience day-in and d...
41 min
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Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One i...
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 world. In conversation with Ash Sarkar, she explores how outrag...
45 min
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Putin's People with Catherine Belton and Edward...
Former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs.Through exclusive inte...
45 min
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Debate: 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 Moaveni, Daniel Hannan and Salman Al-Ansari. The debate was chaired by the BBC's...
60 min
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City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong, With Ant...
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 summer of 2019. He spoke to political economist Shirley Yu. Together they d...
65 min
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The Reckoning: Kwame Kwei-Armah and Idris Elba ...
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 looking afresh at how they can do a better job of combatting institutional bias and racism. Em...
58 min
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We Need To Talk: Me and White Supremacy, with L...
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 Layla Saad to investigate the role each of us has to play in dismantling white supremacy.&n...
64 min
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Unravelling Unconscious Bias, with Dr Pragya Ag...
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' biases affect the way we communicate and perceive the wo...
46 min
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Why do Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Don...
Why does Donald Trump have such a good relationship with white evangelical christians despite his questionable conservative credentials? In this week's episode Sarah Posner, author of 'Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship ...
47 min
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Statues, Slavery and the Struggle for Equality ...
Following the death of George Floyd, global Black Lives Matter protests, and debates raging over statues from Colston to Churchill, Intelligence Squared hosted an online discussion with historian David Olusoga, Labour MP Dawn Butler, and philosopher Su...
71 min
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The New Long Life: Flourishing in a Changing Wo...
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 Andrew J Scott and Lynda Gratton speak to Tom Whipple about their book 'The New Lo...
49 min
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Anand Giridharadas on Capitalism in the Time of...
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 the crisis an opportunity to create a more egalitarian society? Ho...
57 min