Intelligence Squared
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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...
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The Passion Economy with Adam Davidson and Hugo...
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 paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfillment, and unpre...
62 min
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Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection...
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 behind some of our greatest personal and societal challenges,...
55 min
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Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World...
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 understand our present? In this episode Professor Will Davies, aut...
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Putting Peer Pressure to Work with Robert H Fra...
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 influence our behaviour more than we think. They discuss why ...
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No Visible Bruises: Why What we don't know abou...
In this week's episode award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder speaks to Helen Lewis about some common misconceptions about domestic violence: that it happens to an unlucky few; that it's a matter of poor choices; that if things are dir...
50 min
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The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learne...
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 and explains how their cutting-edge tactics and adaptability pose a serious threat to America ...
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The Classical School, with Callum Williams and ...
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The Corona Crash: How Bad Will It Be? With Mark...
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The Great Slowdown and Why It's Good, with Dann...
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Abolish Silicon Valley, with Wendy Liu and Carl...
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Ultras: Among The World's Most Extreme Fans, wi...
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 of the largest youth movements in the world. In this episode, James Montague, autho...
45 min
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Coronavirus 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 Spiegelhalter, biometrics expert Sheila Bird, and the American scientist John Ioannidis, who has ...
58 min
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Who We Listen To And Who We Don't, with Stephen...
Why are self-confident ignoramuses so often believed? Why are thoughtful experts so often given the cold shoulder? And why do apparently irrelevant details such as a person’s height, their relative wealth, or their Facebook photo influence whether or n...
32 min
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Coronavirus and the Economy: Your Questions Ans...
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 - Coronavirus: Your Questions Answered - we brought together a...
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Hype, Smoke and Mirrors, with Gemma Milne and C...
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 journalist and author of Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How t...
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Coronavirus and Global Politics: Your Questions...
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 Squared - Coronavirus: Your Questions Answered - we brought toget...
68 min
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The Unravelling of the Modern Middle East, with...
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 Middle East, this was the pivotal year that kickstarted a f...
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Mind, Matter and Meaning, with Brian Greene and...
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 Brian Greene, theoretical physicist and author of Until The End of Time, in conversa...
40 min
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Coronavirus: 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 countries apparently been more successful at reducing the spread of the vir...
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Coronavirus and Morality: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks ...
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 home. In an in-depth discussion with the BBC's Ritula Shah, he discusses how our s...
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A Century of Conflict, with Rashid Khalidi and ...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been raging for decades, with seemingly no end in sight. In this episode, we are joined by Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian-American historian and Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Colum...
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Radical Uncertainty, with Mervyn King, John Kay...
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 England, alongside renowned economist John Kay and Jesse Norman MP. Mervyn and...
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Kate Murphy and Ros Urwin on the Importance of ...
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 our personal narratives. At parties, we talk over one another. So do our politicians. We’re not...
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