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
The New Optimism, with Matt Ridley, Johan Norberg, David Runciman and Laura Kuenssberg
Are you an optimist or a pessimist? And why should it matter? After what for many of us has been an annus horribilis in 2016, pessimists seem to have all the best tunes. Terror attacks, horror headlin...
20 Jan 20171h 3min
Steven Pinker on The Better Angels of Our Nature
In 2011, we welcomed world renowned American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker to the Intelligence Squared stage. He argued that, contrary to popular belief, we are living in the least violent period ...
13 Jan 20171h 3min
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Cannot Rock the Boardroom
Is it a myth that women can have it all, all of the time? Or do the rising numbers of female executives in Hong Kong and around the world suggest otherwise? Does the glass ceiling exist as a barrier t...
6 Jan 201748min
