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...
27 Jul 20171h 1min
The EU is Failing Europe's Citizens
In the eyes of pro-Europeans, the founding of the EU after WWII secured peace across the continent for decades. But one needn’t look further than Brexit to see that the EU is teetering on the edge. By...
20 Jul 201758min
Francis Fukuyama with David Runciman - Democracy: Even the Best Ideas Can Fail
In September 2014, Professor Francis Fukuyama came to the Intelligence Squared stage to square up with one of Britain’s most brilliant political thinkers, David Runciman, to assess how democracy is fa...
13 Jul 20171h 2min
Naomi Klein on Donald Trump and the new shock politics
Earlier this week we recorded a special episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast at the Acast studio in east London. We were joined by author and activist Naomi Klein and BBC economics editor Kamal...
6 Jul 201753min
Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai and Adam Grant on Facing Adversity, Building Resilience And Finding Joy
‘I learned about the depths of sadness and the brutality of loss. But I also learned that when life sucks you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface and breathe again.’ – Sheryl San...
29 Jun 20171h 3min
Daniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking
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,...
22 Jun 20171h 2min
Europe on the Edge
What’s happening to Europe? The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was seen as a triumph for liberal democracy. True, the ‘end of history’ narrative didn’t play out across the world as many predicted. Bu...
8 Jun 20171h 3min
