Jeffrey Sachs on JFK and His Quest For Peace
How can leadership lessons from the past be applied to intractable international problems today? In this talk from July 2013, shortly before the 50th anniversary of President John F Kennedy's assignat...
6 Dec 20131h 22min
Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton
What really divides the left and the right? To answer this question, Intelligence Squared brought together two giants of British intellectual culture for an ideological reckoning: Terry Eagleton, lite...
6 Dec 20131h 29min
Dan Pink on the Science of Buoyancy
It happens to all of us every day. You get rejected. Your customer doesn’t buy. Your boss doesn’t agree. Your crush doesn’t say yes. In this provocative and entertaining talk, Daniel Pink, author of t...
4 Dec 20131h 21min
Michael Sandel on the Moral Limits of Markets
Should we pay children to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, or selling citizenship to imm...
4 Dec 20131h 8min
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...
4 Dec 201334min
Western Liberal Democracy Would be Wrong for China
People everywhere are better off living in liberal democracy: that has been the reigning assumption of the western world. But could it be we’ve got it wrong? If you were one of the world’s billions of...
2 Dec 20131h 41min
Pornography is Good For Us: Without it We Would Be a Far More Repressed Society
Hooray for porn! What would we be without it? Bored, repressed, frustrated. Porn allows the timid to indulge fantasies they’d never live out in real life and the adventurous to experiment with new for...
1 Dec 20131h 28min
Both Britain and the EU Would Be Happier if They got Divorced
Some people just can’t bring themselves to acknowledge that a relationship is over. Finished. Unsalvageable. David Cameron, for instance. His long awaited speech on Europe has been one big exercise in...
1 Dec 201348min
