Christmas Special: Dan Goleman on Emotional Intelligence with Manveen Rana
No speaker in the history of Intelligence Squared has generated as many YouTube views as Daniel Goleman. His 2013 talk for us has been viewed 3.2 million times. Goleman returned to celebrate the 25th ...
24 Dec 202058min
The Art of Rest, with Claudia Hammond and Helen Czerski
The pandemic of 2020 has turned our lives upside down. Home working and homeschooling have become the norm for millions of us. And while you might think that the absence of long commutes, live enterta...
22 Dec 202058min
Alicia Garza on Creating Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter began as a hashtag when Alicia Garza wrote what she calls ‘a love letter to Black people’ on Facebook, after George Zimmerman was acquitted of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, an un...
18 Dec 202058min
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork
In its earliest days, WeWork promised the impossible: to make the workplace cool. In episode one of Intelligence Squared Business Reeves Wiedeman tells the story of how WeWork attracted billions of do...
17 Dec 202047min
Philosophy in the Age of Covid-19, with Eric Weiner and Danielle Sands
In this week's episode Eric Weiner speaks to Danielle Sands about what philosophy can teach us in the age of COVID-19. From Socrates and ancient Athens to Simone de Beauvoir and twentieth-century Pari...
15 Dec 202033min
Cats vs Dogs, with John Gray and Will Self, Part 1
It’s the issue that’s more polarising than politics. The world is full of animal lovers but we can’t agree on which pet is more worthy of our love – the loyal, obedient dog, or the inscrutable, capric...
11 Dec 202034min
COVID-19 and The Vaccine: A Shot of Hope and A Return to Normal?
The world had been waiting for the news and on November 9 it finally came: a vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech had proved to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in clinical trials....
8 Dec 202048min
Debate: It’s Time for the West to Get Tough with China
In December 2020 we were joined by British Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, who argued that we need to prevent a Beijing-dominated world, and Singaporean author Kishore Mahbubani, who contends that the ...
4 Dec 202046min
