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Archive: Can the Arts Drive Social Change? With Idris Elba, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Yassmin Abdel-Magied
In the summer of 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests swept the world, the arts and creative industries faced urgent questions about racism, representation and their role in driving meaningful change. In this episode from the Intelligence Squared archive, actor Idris Elba and pla ... Show More
1h 2m
Oct 15
How One Family Remade Britain: Thomas and Oliver Cromwell, with Miranda Malins
Thomas Cromwell helped Henry VIII break with Rome, reshape government and establish the Church of England. A century later, his distant relative Oliver Cromwell helped defeat a king, establish a republic and became Lord Protector. Both men are usually remembered as exceptional co ... Show More
57m 36s
Sep 2025
Heated Debate: Slavery, Reparations & Colonialism with Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Kehinde Andrews
Kehinde Andrews and Rafe Heydel-Mankoo debate slavery, reparations and colonialism. Moderated by Konstantin Kisin. | Venice AI: Private, uncensored AI https://venice.ai/triggernometry - use code TRIGGERNOMETRY to get 20% off a pro plan Triggernometry is proudly independent. Thank ... Show More
1h 34m
May 2023
Is Racism The TRUE Cause of Inequality?
Heather Mac Donald, author of When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives, joins us to discuss how the "race hustle" leads to declining standards within American institutions, how inner-city culture, which disincen ... Show More
17m 38s
May 2022
#281 — Western Culture and Its Discontents
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Murray about his new book, "The War on the West." They discuss the problem of hyper partisanship on the Left and Right, the primacy of culture, Hunter Biden's laptop, the de-platforming of Trump and Alex Jones, the ... Show More
1h 11m
May 2022
The War Against the West. Middle Nation Podcast (E:23)
In this episode I am commenting on a recent conversation between #DouglasMurray and #JordanPeterson about Murray's latest book, "the War Against the West". It is a conversation that reveals the two men's profound and blinding biases, and by extension, the biases of "the West" its ... Show More
21m 9s
Dec 2023
79 | What Could It Mean to Say, “Capitalism Causes Sexism and Racism”? with Professor Vanessa Wills
<p>In this episode, we are joined by George Washington University Associate Professor Vanessa Wills to discuss her article “What Could It Mean to Say, ‘Capitalism Causes Sexism and Racism’?” We try to figure out why critics badly understand the Marxist concept of causation as it ... Show More
1h 4m
Jun 2025
What is Suicidal Empathy and Is It Destroying the West?
Charity, pluralism, and openness are values that made the West great. But they are not values shared by the aggressive Islamists and resentful Third Worlders the West has been admitting in huge numbers. In the wake of New York's mayoral primary, Dr. Gad Saad issues a warning abou ... Show More
37m 37s
The West is rich because the rest is poor. Capitalism is racism. So argues Kehinde Andrews, academic and self-described Black radical, who came to Intelligence Squared on March 29 to set out the ideas in his latest book, The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World.
Wrong, says historian Jeremy Black. All that is a complete misre ... Show More
