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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Can We Get To 2125? Humanity's Most Existential Threats Over the Next 100 Years
The Art of a Deal with the Devil: on Faustian Bargains from Shakespeare and Goethe to Thomas Mann and Donald Trump
When the United Nations Actually Mattered: Remembering the Burmese Schoolteacher who Ran the U.N. in its Glory Days
How Evil 'Big Car' Has Killed More People Than World War II
The Double Life of Robert McNamara: How America's 'Best and Brightest' Led the Nation into Vietnam While Knowing the War Was Unwinnable
The World's Worst Bet: How America Gambled Dumbly on Globalization and Lost
Demystify Science and Humanize Scientists: How to Rebuild Scientific Trust in our Angry MAHA Times
From Borges to Brain Scans: How our Minds Invent Reality
The Hypocrisy of Trump's War on Universities: How Wealthy Families Game the College Admission Process
Borders are Back, Baby: From Trump and Transylvania to Brexit and Bolivia's Navy
Beware of another Silicon Valley Win-Win-Win: Can users, publishers and tech companies really all benefit from the AI revolution?
Every Day, Computers are Making People Easier to Use: The Return of IN FORMATION
Is Roman Polanski really worth defending?