Steven Pinker and David Runciman on Optimism, Enlightenment and Progress PART 2
For the second part of our conversation between cognitive psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker and academic and podcaster David Runciman, who teaches politics and history at Cambridge Uni...
20 Jul 202328min
Steven Pinker and David Runciman on Optimism, Enlightenment and Progress PART 1
For this edition, Intelligence Squared revisits a compelling discussion from 2019 with one of the world's foremost cognitive psychologists, Steven Pinker, whose work often focuses on language, the min...
19 Jul 202325min
How To Break The Internet (in 5 Hacks)
Yale Law professor Scott Shapiro takes us on an exhilarating journey through the world of cybercrime and hacking, unraveling the captivating stories behind five extraordinary hacks that have left an i...
19 Jul 202337min
How Dickens Changed My Life
Join Simon Callow as he shares his infectious enthusiasm and profound knowledge of Charles Dickens in this conversation produced in partnership with Sotheby’s. As an acclaimed actor who has portrayed ...
17 Jul 202349min
Debate: London VS New York
For this preview of Intelligence Squared's new podcast, VS, two cities with hundreds of years of history, much of it shared, and also decades of cultural rivalry go head to head. Joining VS this week ...
15 Jul 202312min
Voices of the Founding Fathers: Words that Shaped a Nation
What do the words of America’s Founding Fathers mean today? In this conversation produced in partnership with Sotheby’s, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, scholar Dr Anika Prather and Sotheby’s books spe...
14 Jul 202355min
Daniel Kahneman on Making Intelligent Decisions in a Chaotic World - Part 2
This episode is part two of our live event with Psychologist Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony, Professor of Strategy and Business Policy at HEC Paris. In conversation with host Ritula Shah they pres...
12 Jul 202326min
Daniel Kahneman on Making Intelligent Decisions in a Chaotic World - Part 1
Daniel Kahneman shot to fame in 2002 when he won the Nobel prize in economics for his work on the psychology of human judgment and decision-making. In 2022 he joined us on the Intelligence Squared, al...
11 Jul 202333min
