# Intelligence Squared A podcast by Intelligence Squared. Ideas shape the world. Intelligence Squared brings you the conversations that explain them. In every episode, we bring together leading thinkers, writers, scientists, policymakers and entrepreneurs, to challenge assumptions, test ideas and debate the questions shaping our future. If you want to think more clearly about the world and where it's heading, you're in the right place. If you’d like to support our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations, as well as ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content, early access and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared today. Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. Feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NSR6363847171 ## Latest episodes - [Marina Hyde and Jesse Armstrong, Live in Brighton](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/350a51a78318) (2026-10-28, 89 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7497093133.mp3 - [Were Castles the Original Military-Industrial Complex? With Dan Jones](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/833fd2e95963) (2026-10-26, 48 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3861480006.mp3 - [Archive: Is Mark Zuckerberg Damaging Society?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/016e930c13a0) (2026-10-24, 65 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR5967796276.mp3 - [Has America Abandoned Ukraine? With Michael McFaul](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/6f47a6f84bbc) (2026-10-22, 27 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2949975832.mp3 - [What Must Burnham Sacrifice To Make Britain Grow? With Michael Gove](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/70522e05b9ad) (2026-10-20, 94 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7921073532.mp3 - [Why Are People Having Fewer Children Than They Want? With Camilla Cavendish](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/4840b8ca157c) (2026-10-18, 45 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8824795306.mp3 - [Archive: Can the Arts Drive Social Change? With Idris Elba, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Yassmin Abdel-Magied](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/8d3408ee526d) (2026-10-18, 63 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7053833819.mp3 - [How One Family Remade Britain: Thomas and Oliver Cromwell, with Miranda Malins](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/8861a8aaa2b8) (2026-10-15, 58 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR4687012082.mp3 - [Can Europe Defend Itself? Timothy Garton Ash on Europe's Future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/a163799a6b06) (2026-10-13, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7041164021.mp3 - [Can Pigs Really Appreciate Bach? Katherine Rundell Live](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/a0db0d44ec44) (2026-10-12, 84 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR4669767062.mp3 - [Archive: What Are the Chances We Exist at All? With Brian Cox and Alice Roberts](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/20c11db059f6) (2026-10-11, 64 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2148297907.mp3 - [What James Baldwin Can Teach Us About the World Today](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/e46c8cf171d2) (2026-10-10, 78 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2421109477.mp3 - [The Age of Change with Jeremy Hunt, in Partnership with IBM](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/1e0673c20e2e) (2026-10-06, 44 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7638505767.mp3 - [Carlo Rovelli Live: Why Numbers Don’t Exist](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/d8f4a3682cd7) (2026-10-04, 93 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7816923321.mp3 - [Anthony Scaramucci Tour Highlights](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/8387568573af) (2026-10-03, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR1149600689.mp3 - [Harlan Coben and Bill Nighy on the Art of the Plot Twist](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/ad0be85aea67) (2026-10-01, 93 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR1697293149.mp3 - [Introducing: Intelligence Squared Live](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/6d98f41fc50e) (2026-10-01, 4 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3606256466.mp3 - [Britain’s War in Palestine, with Sebastian Faulks](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/0987c721ddd1) (2026-09-29, 69 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3945485602.mp3 - [The CIA vs MI6: Allies or Rivals? With David McCloskey](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/808f005da84a) (2026-09-28, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2825559282.mp3 - [Is There a Royal Sex Scandal Hidden in the Bayeux Tapestry? With David Musgrove](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/67a89c879653) (2026-09-26, 40 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9189812984.mp3 - [Anthony Scaramucci and Marina Hyde: What Comes After Trump? Live from Guildford](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/7d53147b29eb) (2026-09-25, 96 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9353494327.mp3 - [What Lyse Doucet Has Learned from 40 Years Reporting From War Zones, Live](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/c927142809de) (2026-09-23, 88 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2891414488.mp3 - [Anthony Scaramucci and Tina Brown on How To Fix America, Live in London](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/239e04aa5195) (2026-09-20, 98 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9972239245.mp3 - [Why Your Plans Will Fail After Five Minutes, and How To Fix Them, with Kevin Fong](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/4a7004ee6932) (2026-09-19, 51 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7091994992.mp3 - [Has Tech Lost All Humanity? With Mark Little](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/d303aaae7bbd) (2026-09-18, 43 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9839120660.mp3 - [Luke Harding and Alastair Campbell: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest (Part Two)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/4099407dae52) (2026-09-15, 37 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR4614878231.mp3 - [Luke Harding and Alastair Campbell: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest (Part One)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/bc0292cfa869) (2026-09-13, 34 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8471954135.mp3 - [Francis Fukuyama on the New World Order (Part Two)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/1197702c5360) (2026-09-12, 40 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8540839797.mp3 - [What Comes After the End of History? with Francis Fukuyama (Part One)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/9aa466d93d74) (2026-09-10, 36 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8696525295.mp3 - [The New Silencing: Women Versus the Manosphere (Part Two)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/34af1e2eb1f5) (2026-09-08, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR5513959206.mp3 - [The New Silencing: Women Versus the Manosphere (Part One)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/5dd4710a21ae) (2026-09-06, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR6628296400.mp3 - [Why Did the Working Class Abandon the Left? With Nobel Economist Daron Acemoglu](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/900e238cc6ff) (2026-09-05, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7137891798.mp3 - [How Trade Shapes Our World, With Ed Conway](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/2179c57bb3a1) (2026-09-03, 54 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR4617491816.mp3 - [NYT’s Novel of the Century? Marlon James on The Disappearers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/e8869fb7a0be) (2026-09-01, 51 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR6008070328.mp3 - [The Secret History in Our DNA: Adam Rutherford Meets David Olusoga (Part Two)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/a70f3fd5e6de) (2026-08-30, 39 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7352403812.mp3 - [The Secret History in Our DNA: Adam Rutherford Meets David Olusoga (Part One)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/5409d8dc9cbe) (2026-08-29, 43 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7223242056.mp3 - [Can Democracy Survive the Age of AI? With Jill Lepore](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/9282e54ffa4e) (2026-08-28, 42 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3605057135.mp3 - [What John Berger Saw That We Still Don’t, with Tom Overton](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/4660a7cad809) (2026-08-25, 43 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3870906658.mp3 - [Is Tech Making Our Kids Less Capable? With Dr Jared Cooney Horvath](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/85c42f956960) (2026-08-23, 34 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR1785951074.mp3 - [Is Ukraine’s Culture Worth Fighting For? With Charlotte Higgins](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/a62b493966da) (2026-08-22, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR4331432531.mp3 - [How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera (Part Two)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/b637e8943203) (2026-08-20, 43 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9689500547.mp3 - [How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera (Part One)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/0f8a277436f2) (2026-08-18, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR2652452278.mp3 - [Spielberg, Coppola and Lucas: The Remaking of Modern Cinema, With Paul Fischer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/241a7616c0fa) (2026-08-16, 52 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8639698612.mp3 - [Colm Tóibín on Stories of Exile (Part Two)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/76b734448003) (2026-08-15, 37 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3228304442.mp3 - [Colm Tóibín on Stories of Exile (Part One)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/66cb6daa253e) (2026-08-13, 40 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8567749359.mp3 - [Uncovering the Epstein Story, with Emily Maitlis and Amy Wallace (Part Two)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/c30fe978715b) (2026-08-11, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR1689426829.mp3 - [Uncovering the Epstein Story, with Emily Maitlis and Amy Wallace (Part One)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/708371900/a90c2bd3228b) (2026-08-09, 41 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR7322731369.mp3 - [Is the Algorithm Destroying Taste? 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