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Join our Mailing List for Event Notification. 8220;Intelligence Squared, the business that makes brainy argument into an extreme sport for urban intellectuals.”. Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times. 8220;Intelligence Squared has a worldwide reach, great contacts, and a rich, well-educated, global audience”. 8216;”Why are the debates so successful? 8220;Real-world conversation is coming back. Salons such as Intelligence Squared are becoming new places for the literary and intellectually inclined to ...
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Terry Eagleton Meets Roger Scruton : Intelligence Squared
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Join our Mailing List for Event Notification. Terry Eagleton Meets Roger Scruton. Thursday September 13 Video now online. Listen to the podcast. 8220;For well over three decades, Roger Scruton and Terry Eagleton have as public intellectuals put on an entertaining non-stop show as the lion and the unicorn of competing ideologies.”. Intellectuals of our time, came together for an ideological reckoning. 8211; Distinguished Professor of English Literature, University of Lancaster. 8211; Writer and philosopher.
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Greece vs Rome, with Boris Johnson and Mary Beard : Intelligence Squared
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Join our Mailing List for Event Notification. Greece vs Rome, with Boris Johnson and Mary Beard. Thursday 19 November 2015, 7pm VIDEO AND PODCAST NOW ONLINE. On November 19th Intelligence Squared hosted the ultimate clash of civilisations: Greece vs Rome. Mayor of London and ardent classicist, made the case for Greece; while Mary Beard. Professor of Classics at Cambridge and redoubtable media star, championed Rome. While Athens declined into a forgotten backwater, Rome became the eternal city, home to th...
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The Intelligence Squared ‘Open to Debate’ Gift Box : Intelligence Squared
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Join our Mailing List for Event Notification. It’s always a full house at Intelligence Squared. So buying a Gift Box is a clever move, as that way you guarantee yourself a seat at every one of our events. Our spring 2016 season was a complete sell-out, including events with historians Michael Scott. And renowned international lawyer and political scientist Anne-Marie Slaughter. Not to mention evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. And debates on ISIS, Tony Blair and the welfare system. P&P within the UK).
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Join our Mailing List for Event Notification. It’s always a full house at Intelligence Squared. So becoming a Member is a clever move, as that way you guarantee yourself a seat at every one of our events. Our autumn season was a complete sell-out, including events with historians Niall Ferguson. And Yuval Noah Harari. American novelist Jonathan Franzen. Not to mention film director and Python star Terry Gilliam. And our education debate starring Tristram Hunt. And former Eton headmaster Tony Little.
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Smarter Mobility: An Evening of Debate : Intelligence Squared
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Join our Mailing List for Event Notification. Smarter Mobility: An Evening of Debate. Monday 4 November 2013, 12.07pm VIDEO NOW ONLINE. We need smart, deliverable solutions, but what form will these take? Will they be rapid transit systems, whizzing us around our cities in pods to save on time and energy? Will driverless cars do the thinking for us and reduce congestion? How will we be getting around London in the mid-21st century? Urban designer and leading international expert on ‘shared space’, a low-...
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The Intelligence Squared Membership : Intelligence Squared
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Join our Mailing List for Event Notification. It’s always a full house at Intelligence Squared. So becoming a Member is a clever move, as that way you guarantee yourself a seat at every one of our events. Our autumn season was a complete sell-out, including events with historians Niall Ferguson. And Yuval Noah Harari. American novelist Jonathan Franzen. Not to mention film director and Python star Terry Gilliam. And our education debate starring Tristram Hunt. And former Eton headmaster Tony Little.
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An Evening with Jonathan Franzen : Intelligence Squared
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Join our Mailing List for Event Notification. An Evening with Jonathan Franzen. Wednesday 30 September 2015, 7pm VIDEO COMING SOON. If there is one English-language writer today with the ambition and talent to make the literary novel seem truly meaningful again, both as a vehicle of mass entertainment and as a serious record of our times, it is Jonathan Franzen.’. A new Jonathan Franzen novel is seen as a major cultural event. His 2010 novel. On September 30, to mark the publication of his new novel.
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Let’s end the tyranny of the test. Relentless school testing demeans education : Intelligence Squared
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Join our Mailing List for Event Notification. Let’s end the tyranny of the test. Relentless school testing demeans education. Thursday 1 October 2015, 7pm VIDEO ONLINE NOW. And let’s be honest, without the structure provided by regular testing, how many young people would knuckle down to study and learn anything? Exams are good training for the pressures of working life – whether it’s a copy deadline, a presentation or a deal that needs to be closed at the eleventh hour. Image: Flickr / arielaot. Head Ma...
