Niall Ferguson On The Six Killer Apps Of Western Civilisation
Niall Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation. In this talk from February 2011, based on his book 'Civilisation: The West and the Rest', he asks how Western civilization cam...
24 Mar 20171h 1min
Don’t give them what they want: Terrorists should be starved of the oxygen of publicity
Why do they do it? Again and again, after every attack, our media react by giving the terrorists exactly what they want – maximum publicity. Of course, the public should be told that an atrocity has t...
17 Mar 20171h 3min
Feminism Is For Everyone
A year ago, you could have been forgiven for thinking that gender equality was on an unstoppable trajectory. America stood poised to elect its first female president. On this side of the Atlantic, mem...
10 Mar 20171h 2min
Jeffrey Sachs on America and a New World Order
'America first!' Donald Trump hammered out this message over and again in his inauguration speech a week ago today. He promised tariffs, a crackdown on immigration, and a restoration of American milit...
3 Mar 20171h 3min
Daniel Dennett on the Evolution of the Mind, Consciousness and AI
How come there are conscious minds? How do language and culture evolve? Should we still teach children things which computers can do better? Will our smart electronic devices rob us of our intelligenc...
24 Feb 20171h 3min
The Bittersweet Truth About What We Eat
What should we be eating to live a long and healthy life? How is it that some people can eat absolutely anything and stay slim, while others on a ‘healthy’ diet get fat? Why is it that Cubans are much...
17 Feb 20171h 3min
Steven Pinker on Good Writing, with Ian McEwan
Steven Pinker is one of the world’s leading authorities on language, mind and human nature. A professor of psychology at Harvard, he is the bestselling author of eight books and regularly appears in l...
10 Feb 20171h 2min
Thomas Friedman on Thriving in the Age of Acceleration
He has been called ‘the most influential columnist in America’, and is read by everyone from small-business owners to President Obama. As a star columnist of The New York Times, Thomas Friedman has wo...
27 Jan 20171h 3min
