Introducing Intelligence Squared US
I am so excited to share with you Intelligence Squared US, America’s leading platform for fair and balanced debate. I am a huge fan of their work, and have been on the show many times. They always have interesting, meaningful, rigorous discussions about tough subjects. It’s a debate series, and they pull together the world’s top thinkers on each topic to compare and contrast both sides of an issue. The discussions are impartial, informative, and importantly, civil. They’re truly doing great stuff over at Intelligence Squared, bringing reason to controversial topics, and navigating them superbly. I always learn something, whether I’m listening or participating in one of the debates.
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Dana Milbank: How the Republicans Have Become the Destructionist Party and How This Might Destroy American Democracy
Dimitris Xygalatas: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
Anna DeForest: How American Medicine, With Its Reliance on the Scientific "Data," Does Such a Bad Job of Dealing With Life's Greatest Mystery: Death
Mia Baytop Russell: How to Confront Corporate Burnout and Make Work Meaningful Again
Benjamin Cunningham: The Wife-Swapping Czech Double Agent Whose Sad Saga Captured the Nihilism of the Cold War Era
Phillip Levine: Why Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness Proposal Isn't the Solution to the Real Economic Injustices of the American College System
Christian Busch: Is the "Serendipity" of "Good Luck" Just More Neo-Liberal Pseudo-Science From Our Business School Elite?
Linda Villarosa: Why Racism Is the Deadliest Pandemic Afflicting Both African-American Lives and the Health of the Nation
Linda Kinstler: On How We Remember the Holocaust
Gary Weiss: What Donald Trump Might Have Learned From the Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie
Anya Kamenetz on The Stolen Year: Kids, Covid, and the Catastrophic Cost of the Pandemic
William Deresiewicz: Can a Critic of "Wokeness" Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?
Sinclair McKay on Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the 20th-Century World