The World Needs Religion Even if it Doesn't Need God
This is not a debate of religion vs. secularism. This is a debate about where and how the values in life are found, produced, and experienced. Some would argue that atheism has gone too far and there ...
26 Mar 20231h 23min
Margaret MacMillan on How War Has Shaped Humanity
War - Do we care enough? In this episode, distinguished historian Margaret MacMillan explains why we should care about war and how it’s profoundly impacted our societies, political institutions, value...
25 Mar 202354min
Iraq: 20 Years On | Tony Blair on Trial
Tony Blair is the man who reinvented Labour, won a landslide majority in 1997 and went on to win three elections, becoming Labour’s longest-serving prime minister. He is also the man accused of lies, ...
24 Mar 20231h 3min
Iraq: 20 Years On | ISIS, Terror and Extremism
How did the Iraq war fuel terror and extremism around the world? What is the connection between Al-Qaeda and ISIS? How did figures like Abū Muṣʻab Zarqāwī and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi become such prominen...
23 Mar 202348min
Iraq: 20 Years On | Loss of a Nation
Over the last twenty years, award-winning Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, has watched his nation disappear time and time again. Sectarian division, ethnic division, and military intervention have ...
22 Mar 202337min
Iraq: 20 Years On | Invasion, Occupation and Failures
What happened in Iraq once the Americans and the British arrived? Why was the transfer of power a far from smooth operation? And what else went wrong in what should have been the mission for liberatio...
21 Mar 202343min
Iraq: 20 Years On | The Road to War
Exactly twenty years ago today on the 20th March 2003, the US along with its allies launched a shock and awe bombing campaign on Iraq. It marked the start of the invasion - and occupation - of Iraq - ...
20 Mar 202348min
Greece vs Rome, with Boris Johnson and Mary Beard
In 2015, Intelligence Squared staged the ultimate clash of civilisations: Greece vs Rome. Boris Johnson, at that time Mayor of London and ardent classicist, made the case for Greece; while Mary Beard,...
19 Mar 20231h 4min
