Intelligence Squared
Ideas shape the world. Intelligence Squared brings you the conversations that explain them. In every episode, we bring together leading thinkers, writers, scientists, policymakers and entrepreneurs, to challenge assumptions, test ideas and debate the questions shaping our future. If you want to think more clearly about the world and where it's heading, you're in the right place. If you’d like to support our mission t
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- 1 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 How to Argue with a RacistAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 A Fortunate ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 A Seventh ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Control: The History and The Disturbing Present of EugenicsAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 CreationAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 G.John Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 John Berger, From LifeTom Overton · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Book of HumansAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Human ConditionHannah Arendt · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Machine StopsE.M. Forster · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Rise and Fall of the Artificial StateJill Lepore · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 How to Argue with a RacistAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 A Fortunate ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 A Seventh ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Control: The History and The Disturbing Present of EugenicsAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 CreationAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 G.John Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 John Berger, From LifeTom Overton · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Book of HumansAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Human ConditionHannah Arendt · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Machine StopsE.M. Forster · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Rise and Fall of the Artificial StateJill Lepore · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 How to Argue with a RacistAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 A Fortunate ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 A Seventh ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Control: The History and The Disturbing Present of EugenicsAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 CreationAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 G.John Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 John Berger, From LifeTom Overton · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Book of HumansAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Human ConditionHannah Arendt · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Machine StopsE.M. Forster · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Rise and Fall of the Artificial StateJill Lepore · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
“He wrote How Music Got Free, which was a book that became a fine list for the LA Times book prize, amongst many other accolades”
“The thinking machine. Jensen Huang NVIDIA And the world's most coveted microchip”
“He is the author of numerous books, including Dictator Land and China's African Empire, the country that captured a continent”
“He is the author of numerous books, including Dictator Land and China's African Empire, the country that captured a continent”
“It's called The dragon's gift. The real story of China in Africa, which was published in two thousand and nine”
“The Belt and Road. A Chinese World Order by Bruno Masayas. Is fantastic”
“And then there's a another really good one called the Digital Silk Road. China's quest to wire the world and win the future, which is Jonathan Hillman”
“about the themes of his recent book, The Case for American Power”
“Shadi also has a new book, which is out now in the United States. Can Religion Save Democracy”
“His We're gonna have to try and help me again. Ariophagitica. from 1644 is often cited as one of the most compelling arguments on the freedom of the press”
“author of the bestseller 1599, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare”
“author of a book entitled, Actually, Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare”
“She has published two books on act, in particular on playing Lady Macbeth”
“if you are reading Paradise Regained or come to the end of Samson Agonistes and start laughing, go back to the beginning”
“from Shakespeare's very early long poem, Lucrece, also known as The Rape of Lucrece”
“published his memoir recently. It's called The Unexpected Professor”
“John Dryden, did actually produce a a dramatic version of Paradise Lost called The State of Innocence”
“Her new book is Valley of Death. How big tech is fueling the future of war”
“I always tell people, read his book, Zero to One, which lays out his thoughts on entrepreneurship”
“one of the ones I recommend, particularly for people in the AI issue, is it's called Project Maven ... It's written by a Bloomberg journalist, Katrina Manson”
“I really recommend um Bad Blood, the original book. on Theranos by John Carrew”
“Her new book is Valley of Death. How big tech is fueling the future of war”
“I always tell people read his book, Zero to One, which lays out his thoughts on entrepreneurship”
“one of the ones I recommend, particularly for people in the AI issue, is it's called Project Maven ... It's written by a Bloomberg journalist, Katrina Manson”
“I really recommend um Bad Blood, the original book. On Theranos by John Carrew”
“I was a great fan David Copelfield, I was a great fan of Charles Dickens, and he's a satirist, really”
“it was around the time the Andrew Morton book had come up, but the divorce hadn't happened”
“I was a great fan David Copperfield, I was a great fan of Charles Dickens, and he is a satirist really”
“It was around the time the Andrew Morton book had come up, but the divorce hadn't happened and it it really shocked me”
“In his acclaimed memoir, Stringer, Sunderam tells the story of that journey, offering a remarkable portrait of a country and its people and what it means to report from the front lines of history”
“In his acclaimed memoir, Stringer, Sunderham tells the story of that journey”
“Uh Somewhat controversial text about You know? Oh. A portray of Congo”
“I also bought the Groffalo Granny a couple of weeks ago. It's actually about the size of the Groffalo Grani the story is far less good”
“there's a really good book writ written by like the forty third employee of Facebook, which is called something like The Boy Kings or something”
“He wrote a brilliant book called Lies Poker about which was that that great sort of Invective against the kind of eighties. kind of Manhattan banking greed”
“Now in a new book, Castles, a fortified history of the world, the He explores across more than three thousand years of castle history”
“I'd written a book called Powers and Thrones back in that was published back in twenty twenty one”
“Walpole was writing what's usually regarded as the first gothic novel, the Castle of Atranto”
“as recounted by Vram von Eschenbach into some of his Great operas, Parseval, Loengrin”
“He's the author of books including The Excellent From Cold War to Hot Peace, an American ambassador in Putin's Russia”
“and most recently Audocrats versus Democrats, China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder”
“I do think that one of the best books written by a serving or recently serving politician about politics is his memoir”
“In her new book. Generation may be. Why we're having fewer children and what it means for us all. She investigates why birth rates are falling across very different countries”
“I was in Tokyo to write a different book. which I published, which was about the aging of the world”
“One of the Fox that influenced me while I was reading while I was writing all this was Richard Reeves all those books about men and boys”
“the book he wrote that really made me think was called Men Without Work”
“We have a brand new edition of three volume edition from Oxford University Press of all of Oliver Cromwell's known letters, writings and speeches”
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