Institute of Art and Ideas
What are the alternatives to democracy?
We believe democracy leads to a fairer world. Yet almost all governments claim to be democratic including China, Russia and Syria. And 50 years after the abolition of hanging, UK polls still show a majority in favour. Is democracy...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is morality about thinking or feeling?
We think empathising with others is the route to a better world. But studies show that empathy encourages us to help one named child over ten anonymous others. Is morality strangely not about empathy at all? Does the moral way to act...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Opening Up the Ivory Tower: Using Video to Get Out New Voices and Ideas - Pierpaolo Barbieri
Pierpaolo Barbieri, a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, believes that people in Ivory Towers should get out, and interact more fully with the public. And to do this, technology (and video in particular) can help immensely....
Intelligence Squared
Richard Dawkins discussing Father Christmas
Richard Dawkins discussing Father Christmas.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 4. The Teaching of Economics
The kind of economics taught in graduate schools was the main contributor to the current crisis, claims Anatole Kaletsky - a statement that begs the question: Has economics teaching changed in response to the current crisis? "The Kids"...
Intelligence Squared
Jess Phillips defending the welfare state
Jess Phillips defending the welfare state.
Intelligence Squared
Sapiens' author Yuval Noah Harari on gender
Sapiens' author Yuval Noah Harari on gender.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
What is Rhetoric?
What is Rhetoric? It's one of the oldest areas of study in history (about 400 BC). Rhetoric is all about the study of persuasive communication and is grounded in the teachers of philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero and sophists...
Oxford Comma
The Basics of Prescriptive vs Descriptive Linguistics
A short overview of a hotly debated topic. Should language function through a set of official guidelines and rules or does language belong to its speakers? Prescriptive = language should follow a set structure of rules. Descriptive =...
TLDR News
This Week in Parliament
We are launching a new series called This Week in Parliament. The show is designed to lift the lid on parliament and discuss what has happened in parliament in the preceding week. The series starts this Saturday (13th) and runs for 4 weeks.
Curated Video
Is Now The Time to Talk About Guns?
Gun control in the United States has been a loaded term for decades. So who is favour of the Second Amendment – and who is fighting back against it?
The Wall Street Journal
The Imperial Presidency?
Has the office of the president, over the years, become too powerful for American democracy? And is this what the founding fathers had in mind?
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is a thinking machine even possible?
Evil artificial intelligences are luckily confined to fiction. Yet leading scientists claim that intelligent machines are 'the most serious threat facing mankind'. Are they right or could a mind free from human prejudices create a better...
Intelligence Squared
Terry Gilliam on collaboration in writing
Terry Gilliam: "I'm not an auteur, I'm a filteur"
TLDR News
Why is America's Minimum Wage So Low - TLDR News
Recently the debate about minimum wage has emerged in the US once again, with Biden wanting to see the wage rise to $15 an hour (more than doubling the current rate). So in this video, we discuss this debate as well as why America's...
Intelligence Squared
Are independent schools a societal problem?
Francine Stock introduces this debate Public Schools are a blight on British society Francis Wheen looks back unhappily at the philistinism, racism, anti-sem...IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (1 of 12)
Encyclopaedia Britannica
EB Insights: The New Deal
Learn more about the program, known as the New Deal, launched by U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt to address the effects of the Great Depression.
TLDR News
The Democratic Candidates Policy Positions Explained - TLDR News
In this video we discuss the front runners in the Democratic leadership race and discuss what they stand for from a policy perspective. We also dive into how the process is whittled down and whose likely to make it to the next stage.
All Ears English
Group Conversation: How Does a Debate Work?
Group Conversation: How Does a Debate Work?
Intelligence Squared
Deirdre McCloskey on the Economic, Cultural Explosion of the Next 50 Years
Deirdre McCloskey on the Economic, Cultural Explosion of the Next 50 Years.
Intelligence Squared
Mary Beard: The problem with Cicero
Mary Beard: How I'll combat Boris Johnson's Ciceronian rhetoric - Greece vs Rome, 19th Nov 2015.
Institute of Art and Ideas
Do we need borders and nations?
The nation, the tribe, the union, are all sources of strength. But they are also a means to entrench advantage and exclude others. Are borders and boundaries really about privilege? Should we strengthen them so we have greater power and...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Does society need centralised government?
Few take anarchism and the abandonment of organised government as a viable political goal.æYet in economics, capitalism is just such a leaderless anarchic system. Might a radically decentralised political system be more credible than we...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is democracy incoherent?
We believe democracy leads to a fairer world. Yet almost all governments claim to be democratic including China, Russia and Syria. And 50 years after the abolition of hanging, UK polls still show a majority in favour. Is democracy...