Ranked #1
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
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45mins
Ranked #2
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
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1hr 32mins
Ranked #3
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
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1hr 23mins
Ranked #4
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
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48mins
Ranked #5
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
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #6
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
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #7
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
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1hr 12mins
Ranked #8
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
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34mins
Ranked #9
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
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56mins
Ranked #10
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
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #11
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
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1hr 1min
Ranked #12
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
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1hr 50mins
Ranked #13
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
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #14
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
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #15
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
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1hr 1min
Ranked #16
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
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48mins
Ranked #17
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
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #18
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
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #19
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
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #20
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
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48mins