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Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared is the home of lively debate and deep-dive discussion. Follow Intelligence Squared wherever you get your podcasts and enjoy four regular episodes per week taking you to the heart ... Read more

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Ibram X. Kendi and Razia Iqbal on How To Be An Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi and Razia Iqbal on How To Be An Antiracist

What's the difference between being merely non-racist and being an antiracist? And what will it take to completely uproo... Read more

23 Aug 2019

45mins

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An Evening With Slavoj Zizek

An Evening With Slavoj Zizek

Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most contro... Read more

24 Jan 2014

1hr 32mins

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Steven Pinker on Good Writing with Ian McEwan

Steven 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... Read more

30 Sep 2014

1hr 23mins

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The Catholic Church is a Force For Good in The World

The 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 worl... Read more

13 Dec 2013

48mins

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P.J. O’Rourke and Lionel Shriver on the Battle for the White House

P.J. O’Rourke and Lionel Shriver on the Battle for the White House

This episode was from one of our live Intelligence Squared events, featuring satirist P. J. O’Rourke and bestselling aut... Read more

22 Nov 2019

1hr 6mins

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Speeches and Letters That Changed The World, With Simon Sebag Montefiore and Kate Mosse

Speeches and Letters That Changed The World, With Simon Sebag Montefiore and Kate Mosse

At the 2019 Cliveden Literary Festival, Intelligence Squared brought together historian Simon Sebag Montefiore and novel... Read more

11 Oct 2019

1hr 5mins

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To Stop Climate Collapse, We Must End Capitalism

To Stop Climate Collapse, We Must End Capitalism

According to some scientific predictions, human civilisation could completely collapse by 2050 if we don’t take drastic ... Read more

21 Feb 2020

1hr 12mins

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Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart

Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart

For several years and more than a thousand miles, celebrated travel writer Robert Macfarlane has been following the vast... Read more

4 Dec 2013

34mins

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The Battle Over Gender, Race and Identity with Douglas Murray and Anne McElvoy

The Battle Over Gender, Race and Identity with Douglas Murray and Anne McElvoy

In this episode we were joined by the conservative thinker Douglas Murray, whose new book The Madness of Crowds examines... Read more

22 Oct 2019

56mins

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Yuval Noah Harari on the myths we need to survive

Yuval 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 u... Read more

25 Sep 2015

1hr 6mins

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The World Needs Religion Even if it Doesn't Need God

The 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 Richar... Read more

29 Apr 2015

1hr 1min

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The Best Chance For Peace In Israel And Palestine Is For Uncle Sam To Butt Out

The 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... Read more

27 Mar 2014

1hr 50mins

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Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism

Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism

Is there a country in the world that attracts so much criticism as Israel? Studies consistently show Israel to be one of... Read more

21 Jun 2019

1hr 10mins

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Parenting Doesn't Matter (Or Not As Much As You Think)

Parenting 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.... Read more

23 Nov 2018

1hr 5mins

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David Brooks on the Road to Character

David 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 ... Read more

4 Jun 2015

1hr 1min

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Stephen Fry and Friends on the Life, Loves and Hates of Christopher Hitchens

Stephen 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 wo... Read more

11 Apr 2014

48mins

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Thomas Friedman On The World In 2019

Thomas Friedman On The World In 2019

Earlier this month we were joined by Thomas Friedman as he brought his wisdom and insight to the world’s current predica... Read more

12 Apr 2019

1hr 5mins

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University is an unwise investment

University is an unwise investment

For many Western teenagers university has long been considered a passport to the good life: a rite of passage consisting... Read more

14 Aug 2014

1hr 4mins

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Psychiatrists & the pharma industry are to blame for the current ‘epidemic’ of mental disorders

Psychiatrists & 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 anot... Read more

13 Apr 2018

1hr 5mins

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Naomi Klein on Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion & the case for a Green New Deal

Naomi Klein on Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion & the case for a Green New Deal

This is an episode from the second series of How I Found My Voice, a podcast from Intelligence Squared. Presented by the... Read more

19 Nov 2019

48mins

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