Tag: Intelligence Squared

• Intelligence Squared: Understanding Xi: Is China’s President a Threat to the World? (Part One)

  June 1, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/nK4xVLq This event is part of our Age of the Strongman series. Click here to see the other events in the series. President Xi Jinping has ruled China for more than a decade.… more ›

• Intelligence Squared: A Cultural History of Privacy, with Tiffany Jenkins

  May 2, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/8dqrbSg What does it mean to have a private life? Our guest today is Tiffany Jenkins, a writer, cultural historian and broadcaster. She is the author of the acclaimed… more ›

• Intelligence Squared: Classic Debate: Ian Fleming vs John le Carré

  April 6, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/hIAte7j They are the titans of the spy novel, who have elevated thrillers to the level of literary fiction. Much imitated, much adapted by the big and small screens,… more ›

• Intelligence Squared: Chokepoints: Economic Warfare in the Modern World, with Edward Fishman

  February 23, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/7s5zDWh In this episode, we’re joined by Edward Fishman, one of the foremost experts on economic statecraft and sanctions. With a career spanning roles at the U.S. State Department,… more ›

• Intelligence Squared: The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World, with Atossa Abrahamian

  February 21, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/8FWM0j6 Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist and author who writes about the cracks in the nation-state system. A former editor at the Nation and Al Jazeera America, Abrahamian’s… more ›

• Intelligence Squared: Humans: A Monstrous History

  February 17, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/hnBIysb What is a monster? Why do humans create stories about otherness? What does it tell you about a society that engages in monster making? Our guest today is… more ›

• Intelligence Squared: Sotheby’s Talks – Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston, with Kim Jones and Darren Clarke

  January 4, 2025

  In this episode, writer, academic and critic Frances Wilson is joined by Artistic Director of Dior Homme and Vice President of Charleston, Kim Jones, Dr Darren Clarke, Head of Collections,… more ›