The Social Media Addiction-Machine, with Richard Seymour and Jamie Bartlett
In this week's episode we were joined by Richard Seymour, the Marxist intellectual and author of The Twittering Machine, a book which uses psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers...
8 Okt 201958min
The West Should Pay Reparations For Slavery
They are the crimes for which no one has ever made amends. The transatlantic slave trade enslaved between 10 and 12 million Africans. Historians estimate that 15 to 25% of the men and women packed int...
4 Okt 20191h 7min
Satire, Boris and Brexit with Ian McEwan and Razia Iqbal
In this week’s episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by the acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan. He was interviewed by the BBC’s Razia Iqbal to discuss his new satirical novella The Coc...
1 Okt 201950min
Parliament’s War of Words: Women in Power, with Mary Beard, Rachel Reeves and Sandip Verma
With tensions running high this week in the U.K. Houses of Parliament over Brexit and allegations about PM Boris Johnson's use of inflammatory language, Intelligence Squared staged an event with Labou...
27 Sep 20191h 30min
How I Found My Voice: Benjamin Zephaniah
This is an episode from a new podcast strand launched by Intelligence Squared called How I Found My Voice. Presented by the prominent BBC journalist Samira Ahmed, the podcast explores how some of the ...
24 Sep 201948min
The Mindfulness Myth, with Ronald Purser and Helen Lewis
Mindfulness – the psychological practice of bringing one's attention to the present moment through meditation – has gone mainstream. It has been enthusiastically co-opted by Silicon Valley and other l...
20 Sep 201935min
How I Found My Voice: Elif Shafak
This is an episode from a new podcast strand launched by Intelligence Squared called How I Found My Voice. Presented by the prominent BBC journalist Samira Ahmed, the podcast explores how some of the ...
17 Sep 201945min
An Evening With Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s greatest storytellers. He came to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss his career, his life and his new novel Quichotte with the BBC’s Razia Iqbal. The book i...
13 Sep 20191h 5min
