James Barr and Catherine Philp on the Secret British-American Rivalry in the Middle East

James Barr and Catherine Philp on the Secret British-American Rivalry in the Middle East

In this week’s episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast, the historian and author of Lords of the Desert James Barr sat down with Times journalist Catherine Philp to reveal the the story of the hidden 25-year rivalry between Britain and the United States, using newly declassified records and long-forgotten memoirs. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Marina Abramović on art, performance, time and nothingness

Marina Abramović on art, performance, time and nothingness

Marina Abramović is one of the most celebrated performance artists in the world. Over a career spanning four decades she has pioneered performance as an art form and accumulated a devoted following. U...

18 Syys 20141h 24min

History Shows Us That Scotland and England Would Be Better Off as Separate Kingdoms

History Shows Us That Scotland and England Would Be Better Off as Separate Kingdoms

This event was recorded at the Chalke Valley History Festival in July 2014. The future of the Union will be voted for in a referendum soon, and this debate explored the historical relationship betwee...

11 Syys 20141h 1min

London Should Love Its Bankers

London Should Love Its Bankers

Do the British have a death wish? You’d be forgiven for thinking so the way so many of them seem to want to cripple the most dynamic part of their own economy. What is the world’s largest market for d...

4 Syys 20141h 37min

Has Martin Luther King's Dream Been Realized?

Has Martin Luther King's Dream Been Realized?

This event was on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. On 28 August 1963, civil rights campaigners marched on Washington to secure equality before the law. Today, Amer...

29 Elo 20141h 7min

Money Can't Buy Happiness

Money Can't Buy Happiness

Leading voices from the fields of science, philosophy came to the Intelligence Squared Asia stage for this thought-provoking debate about the pursuit of wealth and its relationship to happiness. Amon...

21 Elo 20141h 32min

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 of mind-expanding reading and writing or the acquisition of a professional qual...

14 Elo 20141h 4min

It's Time to End The War on Drugs

It's Time to End The War on Drugs

To liberalise or prohibit, that is the question. Prohibitionists argue that legalising anything increases its consumption. The world has enough of a problem with legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco...

4 Elo 20142h 13min

"Contemporary Art Excludes the 99%"

"Contemporary Art Excludes the 99%"

What is the role of contemporary art museums today? Are biennales and art fairs platforms for experiment and exchange, or little more than social attractions for the elite? Have collectors become the ...

31 Heinä 20141h 19min

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