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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Episode 2257: Kishore Mahbubani offers an undiplomatic introduction to our Asian Century
Episode 2256: David Kirkpatrick on his twenty year odyssey from digital idealist to sceptic
Episode 2255: Frank Vogl on whether Donald Trump 2.0 will be a semi-legal repeat of the Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX debacle
Episode 2254: Steven Levy on what has and hasn't surprised him about the last twenty years of tech history
Episode 2253: Andrew Keen revisits Cult of the Amateur
Episode 2252: Can the AI revolution decentralize our politics, culture and economy?
Episode 2251: Steven Robinson on how a band of activists beat Donald Trump and saved New York's West Side
Episode 2250: :John Markoff compares Steve Jobs with contemporary tech titans like Sam Altman and Elon Musk
Episode 2249: Peter Wehner on how American self-renewal is a wonder of the world
Episode 2248: F.H. Buckley on the case for Trumpism
Episode 2247: David Masciotra on how the Boss and the Dude can save America
Episode 2246: Jonathan Rauch on the catastrophic ordinariness of contemporary America
Episode 2245: Elon Musk, Silicon Valley and the Reinvention of American Government