December 2010
7 posts
Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine
So sang Patti Smith in her epic reworking of Van Morrison’s Gloria. The daughter of Jehovah’s Witnesses, raised in New Jersey, Patti was to become the renaissance woman of the punk rock scene. During the 70s she made her name in New York, hanging out with Robert Mapplethorpe, being rude to Bob Dylan and garnering compliments from William Burroughs, who saw her play and told her “Patti, you...
IQ2 Online
For all you keen-eyed visitors to our website who have noticed the mysterious disappearance of the “IQ2 Magazine” tab, rest assured; we have not fallen prey to rampaging Internet criminals again. Instead, we have been experimenting with ways to make the IQ2 Magazine an even better resource for keeping you on top of the arguments that matter. We are pleased to announce that we will now be bringing...
Eating meat is writing a cheque that we cannot...
Thursday’s debate on “Don’t eat animals” took Intelligence Squared to Kensington Town Hall. The dedicated vegans on the panel, and in the audience, sought to sway their opponents with arguments appealing to emotion, science and the environment, but that above all attested to their passion. Our first speaker of the evening, Abbas Daneshvari, described how the horrors of watching cows being...
Post-event drinks and dinner. . .
On the evening of next season’s inaugural debate (“Iran is a paper tiger” on February 24), we are organising post-event drinks and dinner at the Ognisko Polish Club, just across the road from The Royal Geographical Society. This will be the perfect place and opportunity to informally continue the discussion with like-minded people. The restaurant will be welcoming guests for a two-course...
Don't Eat Tiny Tim
Meat-eating is enshrined in our cultural institutions, a point perfectly illustrated by the impending (all too rapidly, for those of us who have not yet braved the consumer scrum and battled their way to the front of the tills) annual turkey-fiesta that is Christmas. The vision of the whole family gathered around a glorious bronzed bird, platters piled high with goose-fat potatoes and tureens of...
What's in store?
What floats your boat? Politics? Art? Travel? Comedy? Love? Puppies? Scintillating rhetoric, off-the cuff humour and intellectual fireworks? If so, you’re in luck - Intelligence Squared will be providing all those and more this season. Our line-up of debates on critical political and economic issues will feature a stellar line-up of historians, politicians (including former presidents),...