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Intelligence Squared presents conversations and debates about important ideas. Guests include writers, scientists, policymakers, and entrepreneurs. The series invites arguments to be examined and assumptions challenged. Its subjects extend across questions shaping public life. Author interviews sit within this wider exchange about the world and its future.

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Cover of The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society

The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society

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Cover of Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

byJamie Susskind

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Cover of I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History

I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History

byEmmanuel Iduma

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Cover of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

byPeter Frankopan

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Cover of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us

Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us

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Cover of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

byWalter Isaacson

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Cover of Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found

byAndrew Graham-Dixon

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Cover of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

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Cover of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

byKathryn Paige Harden

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Cover of The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

byThant Myint-U

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Cover of The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

byLes PayneandTamara Payne

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Cover of War: How Conflict Shaped Us

War: How Conflict Shaped Us

byMargaret MacMillan

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Cover of The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War

The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War

byMark Galeotti

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Cover of Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century

Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century

byJoshua Cherniss

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Cover of China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism

China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism

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Cover of Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

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Cover of Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work

Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work

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Cover of Jerusalem: The Biography

Jerusalem: The Biography

bySimon Sebag Montefiore

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Cover of AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

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Cover of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

byCarole Hooven

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Cover of London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

byPatrick Radden Keefe

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Cover of The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World

The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World

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Cover of The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

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Cover of The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

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Cover of The Joy of Science

The Joy of Science

byJim Al-Khalili

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Cover of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

byIsabel Wilkerson

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Cover of Kissinger: 1923 – 1968: The Idealist

Kissinger: 1923 – 1968: The Idealist

byNiall Ferguson

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Cover of Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

byAnthony Sattin

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Cover of How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

byMichael Pollan

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Cover of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

byAngus DeatonandAnne Case

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Cover of Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape

Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape

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Cover of This Is Your Mind on Plants

This Is Your Mind on Plants

byMichael Pollan

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Cover of The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

byCharles M. Blow

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Cover of Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

byMichael Lewis

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Cover of Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution

byTania Branigan

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Cover of Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

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Cover of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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Cover of Bitch: On the Female of the Species

Bitch: On the Female of the Species

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Cover of The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

byMichael E. Mann

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Cover of She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

byJodi KantorandMegan Twohey

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Cover of The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

byChristiana FigueresandTom Rivett-Carnac

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Cover of The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

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Cover of You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters

You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters

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Cover of Range: Why Generalist Triumph in a Specialized World

Range: Why Generalist Triumph in a Specialized World

byDavid Epstein

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Cover of The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

byMariana Mazzucato

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Cover of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

bySuzanne Simard

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Cover of Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature’s Secrets to Longevity

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature’s Secrets to Longevity

byNicklas Brendborg

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Cover of The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West

The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West

byDavid Kilcullen

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