Dark Money and Dirty Politics, with Peter Geoghegan and Nick Cohen
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared ------ Democracy is in crisis, and unaccountable and untraceable flows of money are helping to destroy it. According to Peter Geoghegan...
25 Aug 202042min
The Hidden Power of Caste, with Isabel Wilkerson and Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. -------- Race, class, gender. These are the categories that are commonly thought to define our lives. But Pulitzer Prize-winning autho...
21 Aug 202058min
Ghost Ships and Geopolitics, with Ian Urbina and Ros Urwin
Ian Urbina, investigative reporter of The New York Times for 17 years returns to the podcast to discuss a new investigation, which he believes to uncover the largest known case of illegal fishing perp...
18 Aug 202035min
Partition Voices, with Kavita Puri and Rajini Vaidyanathan
The division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 into India and Pakistan saw millions uprooted and resulted in unspeakable violence. It happened far away, but it would shape modern Britain. In this wee...
14 Aug 202049min
Can business deliver social good after Covid-19? With Warren Valdmanis and Michelle Meagher
As Covid-19 continues to suspend normal life across much of the globe, many commentators have argued the present moment offers a unique opening to re-imagine our societies and economic system. On this...
11 Aug 202037min
Deepfakes and the Infocalypse with Nina Schick and Carl Miller
In this week's podcast Nina Schick speaks to Carl Miller about the rise of Deepfakes and what she believes is an impending 'Infocalypse'. Advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for e...
7 Aug 202046min
Niall Ferguson On What History Can Teach Us About Covid-19
There are few big thinkers better placed to explain the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic than historian Niall Ferguson. In addition to his profound understanding of past crises, since early March...
4 Aug 202059min
An Artificial Revolution, with Ivana Bartoletti and Yassmin Abdel-Magied
In this week's episode world-leading privacy expert Ivana Bartoletti speaks about the reality behind the AI revolution, from the low-paid workers who train algorithms to recognise cancerous polyps, to...
31 Jul 202045min
