Intelligence Squared Creators & Guests

Linda Yueh is an economist, broadcaster, author, and host of the Intelligence Squared podcast.

Patrick Jake O'Rourke is a political satirist and journalist. He was previously a columnist at The Daily Beast.

Douglas Murray is an author, journalist, and political commentator. He is the founder of the Centre for Social Cohesion and associate editor of the British political and cultural magazine The Spectator.

Sally Hayden is a journalist.

Adam Grant is a psychologist and author.

Julie Bindel is a long time feminist campaigner and journalist. She co-founded the law reform group Justice for Women.

Executive Producer of The Daily and The Latest at the New York Times. Previously, Theo was Supervising Producer at NPR's All Things Considered

Paul Caruana Galizia is an editor and reporter.

Jaron Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music.

Ian David Hislop is a British journalist, satirist, writer, broadcaster, screenwriter, comedian, columnist, and editor of the magazine Private Eye.

David Runciman is a teacher of Politics & History at Cambridge University and host of the Talking Politics podcast.

Rebecca Boyle is a freelance science journalist who covers astronomy, physics, deep time, and climate change. She is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a frequent contributor at FiveThirtyEight.Boyle's work has appeared in Scientific American, New Scientist, Aeon, Wired, Popular Science, and other publications, and has twice been anthologized in the Best American Science & Nature Writing. Her first book, "Walking with the Moon: Uncovering the Secrets It Holds to Our Past and Our Future," was published in 2023.

Caroline Criado Perez is a feminist author, journalist, and activist.

Oliver Bullough is a journalist, regular contributor to the Guardian long read, and the author of Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World.

Clare Toeniskoetter is the producer of The Daily Podcast at The New York Times.

Stuart James Ritchie is a Scottish psychologist and science communicator known for his research in human intelligence. He has served as a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London since the summer of 2018.

David Baddiel is a comedian, novelist, and television presenter.

Rory Stewart is a diplomat, author, explorer, academic, politician, and Senior Fellow at the Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

Sarah Ditum is an English opinion columnist and freelance writer whose work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, New Statesman, The Times, and UnHerd. She is based in Bath. Ditum's writing has covered issues including violence against women, gender identity, parenting, British parliamentary politics and cancel culture. She also writes regular book reviews. In 2021, Fleet acquired Ditum's book Upskirt Decade: Women, Fame and The Noughties, which is scheduled to be released in 2023.