Intelligent Times: Thomas Friedman and Robert Peston on the Final Days of the Presidential Race
Date and time
Location
Barbican Centre
Silk St London, EC2Y 8DSRefund Policy
Description
AN INTELLIGENT TIMES EVENT
Intelligent Times is a live event series collaboration between The New York Times and Intelligence Squared, bringing together leading New York Times journalists and thought leaders to discuss the key issues facing the globe today.
Thomas Friedman has been called ‘the most influential columnist in America’. The Financial Times has described him as a ‘global star’ and he has won the Pulitzer Prize three times. On October 6, as part of our ‘Intelligent Times’ series – a partnership between Intelligence Squared and The New York Times – Friedman will be appearing on the Intelligence Squared stage less than a month before Americans go to the polls to elect their next president.
In conversation with ITV’s political editor Robert Peston, one of Britain’s leading journalists and broadcasters, Friedman will examine what is likely to be the most consequential Presidential elections of our times. Will enough Americans rally round President Trump to give him a second term, despite the innumerable scandals that have beset his administration? Or will the Democrats find a way to send him packing? And with the campaign already shaping up to be more bitter and divisive than any other in history, is there any hope for America’s fractured politics?
Join us at the Barbican Centre and hear from two of the sharpest journalistic minds on either side of the Atlantic.
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Speaker
Thomas Friedman
Author, reporter, and op-ed columnist for the NYT
Foreign affairs columnist on the New York Times. His books include The World Is Flat (2005), which won the first Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award; Hot, Flat, and Crowded (2008); and Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (2016), which was shortlisted for the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year.
CHAIR
Robert Peston
Political Editor of ITV News
Political Editor of ITV News and host of the weekly political discussion show Peston. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, which include the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year for his coverage of the financial crisis and the collapse of Northern Rock.
He has held senior positions at newspapers including the Financial Times and Sunday Telegraph and published four books including the bestselling WTF?, and How Do We Fix This Mess? The Economic Price of Having it all, and the Route to Lasting Prosperity. He is the founder of 'Speakers for Schools' and chairman of the charity Hospice UK.
Speakers are subject to change.
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Intelligence Squared has established itself as the leading forum for live, agenda-setting debates, talks and discussions around the world.
Our aim is to promote a global conversation that enables people to make informed decisions about the issues that matter, in the company of the world's greatest minds and orators.