Intelligence Squared
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Latest2026-09-03
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42:13Intelligence Squared
0825
The fuller the Berger archive, the more you should doubt it: home is where two axes cross
What Berger left behind is not a conclusion but a machinery of looking: the fuller the archive, the more you should doubt it; home is where two axes cross; his anti-colonial position never changed across his whole life.
8 Points
7 Quotes
Cultural criticismWays of Seeing
33:14Intelligence Squared
0823
Screens train multitasking, not learning: the harder classrooms digitize, the worse kids do
The harder classrooms have pushed digital tools since 2010, the further children's cognition and digital literacy have fallen across the board; screens train multitasking rather than learning, and AI only makes the errors harder to see.
8 Points
6 Quotes
Ed techClassroom screens
37:37Intelligence Squared
0822
Ukrainians Are Fighting the War With Poems and Artifacts, Not Weapons
How the war turned a culture reporter into a language student and prose writers into poets: Ukrainians are resisting the war's erasure of identity and memory by rescuing artifacts and writing poems.
7 Points
5 Quotes
UkraineCulture and war