Intelligence Squared

Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World, with Will Davies and Carl Miller

Why do so many of us no longer trust experts, facts and statistics? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? And how can the history of ideas help us understand our present? In this episode P...

26 Maj 202055min

Putting Peer Pressure to Work with Robert H Frank and Linda Yueh

In this week's episode Robert H. Frank, author of 'Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work' speaks to Linda Yueh about how our social environments influence our behaviour more than we think...

22 Maj 202046min

No Visible Bruises: Why What we don't know about domestic violence can kill, with Rachel Louise Snyder

In this week's episode award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder speaks to Helen Lewis about some common misconceptions about domestic violence: that it happens to an unlucky few; that it's a matt...

19 Maj 202053min

The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, with David Kilcullen and Carl Miller

In this episode, leading soldier-scholar David Kilcullen speaks to Carl Miller about how the West’s opponents have learned from twenty-first-century conflict and explains how their cutting-edge tactic...

14 Maj 202056min

The Classical School, with Callum Williams and Linda Yueh

Intelligence Squared+. The world's best speakers. Your questions. £4.99 per month. Intelligence Squared+ will bring you live, interactive events every week on our new online platform. Just like at o...

12 Maj 202049min