Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart
For several years and more than a thousand miles, celebrated travel writer Robert Macfarlane has been following the vast network of old paths and routes that criss-cross Britain and its waters, lookin...
20 Aug 201534min
Norman Stone on Istanbul
In this talk from October 2011 the historian Norman Stone, who has lived in Turkey since 1997, took us on a journey through the country's turbulent history, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia...
14 Aug 20151h 3min
Israel Is Destroying Itself With Its Settlement Policy
Patriacide. Nationcide. Whatever you want to call it, that is what Israel is doing with its settlement policy: it is killing itself. If ever greater numbers of Jewish settlers are installed on land re...
7 Aug 20151h 3min
Roberto Saviano on the War Against Organised Crime
Roberto Saviano made a rare appearance in the UK in July 2015 when he came to the Intelligence Squared stage. In conversation with Intelligence Squared's very own Robert Collins, Saviano talked about ...
31 Juli 201551min
John Gray and Adam Phillips in conversation on humankind's search for immortality
Political philosopher John Gray and psychotherapist and essayist Adam Phillips came to the Intelligence Squared stage in 2011 to discuss themes of science and immortality. Can we in the 21st century c...
24 Juli 20151h 2min
Digital Summit Highlights: 'London's Star Tech Enterprise' and 'Who we are on the Web'
This week's episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast features two sessions from our recent Digital Summit with Vanity Fair. In the first session, 'Who are we on the web?' we examined how deeply th...
15 Juli 201555min
Churchill was more a liability than an asset to the free world
Does the fact that Winston Churchill is routinely cited as Britain’s greatest hero say more about us than it does about him? Yes, he warned us of the need to face down Hitler when others were urging a...
10 Juli 201557min
Digital Summit Highlights: 'The Hopes of the Pioneers' and 'Artificial Intelligence'
This week's episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast features two sessions from our recent Digital Summit with Vanity Fair. In the first session, 'This is For Everyone: The hopes of the pioneers',...
2 Juli 201550min
