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Recent Intelligence Squared Podcasts
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 of the iss...
America is more divided than ever—but it doesn’t have to be. Open to Debate offers an antidote to the chaos. We bring multiple perspectives together for real, nonpartisan debates. Debates that are structured, r...
How I Found My Voice is the podcast that explores how some of the world’s greatest artists and thinkers became such compelling – and unique – communicators. This Intelligence Squared podcast goes behind the cel...
Recent Intelligence Squared Episodes
Publication Date | Dec 16, 2013
Duration | 00:48:22
Publication Date | Dec 16, 2013
Duration | 00:48:22
What’s all this nonsense about sending the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece? If Lord Elgin hadn’t rescued them from the Parthenon in Athens and presented them to the British Museum almost 200 years ago, these e...
Publication Date | Dec 16, 2013
Duration | 01:30:05
Publication Date | Dec 16, 2013
Duration | 01:30:05
To say “The West has failed Syria” tempts us into the dangerous belief that had we only got stuck into this conflict from the off, things would now be better. It’s a belief, as recent history shows, we badly ne...
Publication Date | Dec 13, 2013
Duration | 00:48:26
Publication Date | Dec 13, 2013
Duration | 00:48:26
Can anything good really be said of an institution that has such a warped attitude to sex that it tries to stop the world from wearing a condom, is bitterly opposed to gays leading a fulfilled life and regards ...
Publication Date | Dec 12, 2013
Duration | 01:25:10
Publication Date | Dec 12, 2013
Duration | 01:25:10
Daniel Dennett is one of the world’s most original and provocative thinkers. A philosopher and cognitive scientist, he is known as one of the ‘Four Horseman of New Atheism’ along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harri...
Publication Date | Dec 11, 2013
Duration | 01:02:45
Publication Date | Dec 11, 2013
Duration | 01:02:45
Thomas Friedman: A manifesto for rescuing America Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist – the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of six bestselling boo...
Publication Date | Dec 11, 2013
Duration | 00:52:39
Publication Date | Dec 11, 2013
Duration | 00:52:39
According to a 2009 poll, around 1% of American adults reported eating no animal products. In 2011 that number rose to 2.5%--more than double, but still dwarfed by the 48% who reported eating meat, fish or poul...
Publication Date | Dec 11, 2013
Duration | 01:19:04
Publication Date | Dec 11, 2013
Duration | 01:19:04
Which side were you on? The Jets or the Sharks? The Capulets or the Montagues? The Greeks or the Trojans? Antony or Caesar? William or Harold? And so the list goes on ... Indeed, maybe the whole of human histor...
Publication Date | Dec 10, 2013
Duration | 01:36:27
Publication Date | Dec 10, 2013
Duration | 01:36:27
American author Naomi Wolf made her name with The Beauty Myth, a book that exposed the tyranny of the ideal of female beauty. Now she’s back with a no less dramatic or controversial new work. In Vagina: A New B...
Publication Date | Dec 10, 2013
Duration | 01:24:01
Publication Date | Dec 10, 2013
Duration | 01:24:01
In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed... Check out today's Advent podcast wh...
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2013
Duration | 01:22:36
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2013
Duration | 01:22:36
How can leadership lessons from the past be applied to intractable international problems today? In this talk from July 2013, shortly before the 50th anniversary of President John F Kennedy's assignation, the w...