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Written debates

Scandinavia is social Nirvana. Redistribution is the key to it

16 Jul 2010
We cannot win in Afghanistan

25 Jun 2010
Debate Transcript: Obama's foreign policy is a gift to America's enemies

05 Jun 2010
Obama's foreign policy is good for America's position in the world

26 May 2010
Castro's Cuba works

17 May 2010
"Drill, baby, drill" must stop

14 May 2010
The UN is no longer the guarantor of peace and freedom

09 Mar 2010
The Republicans need to play ball

03 Mar 2010
Nato has had its day

18 Feb 2010
Obama should meet the Dalai Lama

17 Feb 2010
The US should step back from its special relationship with Israel

10 Feb 2010
Richard Nixon: Hero or villain?

02 Feb 2010
Obama is right to bash the bankers

29 Jan 2010
The US should stay in Haiti for as long as it takes

21 Jan 2010
Pakistan should tackle the Taliban without the US

14 Jan 2010
Amanda Knox should never have been convicted

15 Dec 2009
The West should foot the bill for tackling Climate Change

10 Dec 2009
Roman Polanski should be sent to jail

23 Nov 2009
President Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

23 Nov 2009
Did slavery make economic sense?

20 Nov 2009

Live debates

The cyber war threat has been grossly exaggerated

Filmed: 28 Jun 2010
Obama's foreign policy spells America's decline

Filmed: 11 May 2010
Obama's foreign policy is a gift to America's enemies

Filmed: 27 May 2010
Buy American/Hire American policies will backfire

Filmed: 21 Sep 2009
The Channel is wider than the Atlantic

Filmed: 27 Feb 2003
America cannot succeed in Afghanistan/Pakistan

Filmed: 06 Oct 2009
America is to blame for Mexico's drug war

Filmed: 01 Dec 2009
California is the First Failed State

Filmed: 19 Jan 2010
Obama's economic policies are working effectively

Filmed: 16 Nov 2009
The American Empire is a force for good

Filmed: 30 Oct 2003
A conversation with Gore Vidal

Filmed: 20 May 2008
The era of American dominance is over

Filmed: 12 Feb 2009
America has lost its moral authority

Filmed: 29 Apr 2008

Talks

Rebecca Skloot on the Hela Cell

Filmed: 14 Jun 2010
Simon Schama on social tension in Europe

Filmed: 27 May 2010
Bill Kristol and Juan Williams on Obama's foreign policy

Filmed: 10 Jan 2010
Obama's foreign policy, with Philip Bobbitt and Stephen Walt

Filmed: 23 Jan 2010
John Pilger on the Obama foreign policy

Filmed: 06 Nov 2008
Barack Obama on US foreign policy

Filmed: 12 Oct 2007
War and terror with Philip Bobbitt

Filmed: 29 Apr 2008
Violence & Left in Dark Times

Filmed: 16 Sep 2008
Afghanistan Briefing by Jeffrey McCausland

Filmed: 29 Oct 2009
Deborah Amos on Eclipse of the Sunnis

Filmed: 18 Mar 2010
Katherine Brown and Robert Diamond on exit from Afghanistan

Filmed: 16 Mar 2010
George Friedman on Obama's foreign policy

Filmed: 26 Jan 2010
David Speedie and Shirley Williams on transatlantic relations

Filmed: 09 Oct 2009
Jacob Weisberg on the US and the Middle East

Filmed: 24 Mar 2010
Edward Ball on 'Slaves in the Family'

Filmed: 01 Aug 2000
Intelligence and Security with James Woolsey

Filmed: 14 Jan 2009
New rules of war with Hanson and Arquilla

Filmed: 19 Mar 2010
Ferguson and Long on Obama, Lincoln, and More

Filmed: 30 Jan 2009
Epstein and Taylor: Are we all Keynesians now?

Filmed: 25 Jan 2010
In Defence of World War Two

Filmed: 09 Jul 2008
War and history with Victor Davis Hanson

Filmed: 09 Mar 2010
Alan Rusbridger on the future of newspapers

Filmed: Jan 2008
One on one with Hillary Clinton

Filmed: 28 Jan 2010
Rosa Parks interviewed by the Academy of Achievement

Filmed: 02 Jun 1995
Rick Stroud on the moon and the lunar landings

Filmed: 22 Feb 2010
Leon Lederman on Science Education

Filmed: 14 Oct 2009
Jane Mayer on terror, torture, and the dark side

Filmed: 15 Jul 2008
Michael Spence on economic growth in India and China

Filmed: 27 Nov 2006
Enemies of State: why the US is hated

Filmed: 18 Apr 2002
'Crisis and Command' with John Yoo

Filmed: 18 Dec 2009
Soft Despotism with Paul Rahe

Filmed: 19 Nov 2009
Imran Khan on government in Pakistan, and dealing with the Taliban

Filmed: 14 Jan 2009
James Baldwin Interview

Filmed:
Maya Angelou on poetry and Barack Obama

Filmed:
Rethinking the Afghanistan War

Filmed: Mar 2009
Tariq Ali – Obama, Pakistan, and the US empire

Filmed: Jul 2009
Conversations with history – Tariq Ali

Filmed: Oct 2008
Dan Snow on Death or victory

Filmed: Dec 2009
Simon Schama on Obama and the American future

Filmed: Jan 2009
Niall Ferguson on The Ascent of Money

Filmed: 04 Nov 2008

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