Intelligence Squared
Public debates for and against, with clear chains of argument, open to challenge
1:27:25Information Has Never Been More Abundant, and We Choose Not to Know
Lyse Doucet has reported from war zones for forty years, and her judgment is this: not knowing isn't because there isn't enough information, it's because we don't want to know. And this Iran war is a war of choice, and it has made everything worse.
1:37:03Would America Be Better Off If Trump Had Won? His Former Communications Director Does the Math
Scaramucci argues a second Trump term is more dangerous because he learned "last time I didn't steal enough"; and the Democrats lost because their candidate wouldn't take risks — Harris refused Fox and podcasts.
36:34Trump's Moscow File Explains His Deference Better Than Any Policy Analysis
Russian intelligence has been surveilling Trump since the 1970s, with FSB officers stationed at the Ritz-Carlton around the clock. Luke Harding argues this file is the key to understanding Trump's attitude toward Putin.
42:13The 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.
33:14Screens 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.
37:37Ukrainians 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.