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 Aug 20141h 4min
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 Aug 20142h 13min
"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 Jul 20141h 19min
America's Drone Campaign Is Both Moral And Effective
Bug splats. That’s what the American operators of drones, sitting in safety thousands of miles away, call the casualties of a drone attack in Pakistan or Yemen. Why bug splats? Because that’s what a h...
24 Jul 20141h 58min
Sex, bugs & video tapes: the private lives of public figures deserve more protection from the press
Would you like the details of your sex life, private conversations, and hidden passions splashed across the pages of a British tabloid or published online? Could you do anything to stop it? In Britain...
17 Jul 201448min
Art Schools Are Bad At Producing Good Artists
What makes a good artist? Can creativity can be taught? What kind of education ups the ante for success in today’s global culture? These are some of the questions that were explored in this Intellige...
10 Jul 20141h 33min
Jesus Would Have Voted Democrat
Remember the rich man and the eye of the needle? Blessed are the meek? The last shall be first? Jesus didn’t hold much truck for wealth or power, nor was he exactly a supporter of family values. He di...
3 Jul 20141h 43min
Shakespeare vs Milton: The Kings of English Literature Debate
Nearly four centuries after his death, no writer has come close to matching Shakespeare’s understanding of the world – or his gift for dramatic poetry. It’s not just kings and queens that he captured ...
26 Jun 20142h 14min
