The Handshake: A Gripping History
Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich a...
23 Juli 202339min
Should the ICC Prosecute Putin?
On the 17th March 2023, just over a year into Russia’s war in Ukraine, the International Criminal Court issued two arrest warrants. One for Vladimir Putin and one for Maria Lvova-Belova, whose title i...
23 Juli 202332min
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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 202355min
