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From:Intelligence Squared <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Last Tickets Remaining: Thomas Friedman On The World In 2019 Date:Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:05:59 +0000 View in browser Thomas Friedman On The World In 2019 EFTA01034312  Thomas Friedman On The World In 2019 ADD TO CALENDAR WEDNESDAY 3RD APRIL, 7PM EMMANUEL CENTRE Featuring Thomas Friedman and Rana Mitter BUY TICKETS 'A global star ... given his track record as a zeitgeist thermometer, we should all pay attention'- Financial Times The world in 2019 is looking increasingly chaotic and unpredictable. Trump has declared a 'national emergency' over immigration at America's southern border. A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Venezuela, forcing the US to EFTA01034313 consider the option of military intervention. Britain is on the brink of a chaotic no-deal Brexit. Tensions between China and the West have skyrocketed after Trump's trade war and the Huawei dispute. So who better to make sense of these unsettling and fast-changing times than Thomas Friedman, a writer described as 'the most influential columnist in America'? A three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and columnist on The New York Times, Friedman has been at the forefront of geopolitical and economic upheaval for nearly 40 years, from the first Lebanon War to the collapse of Lehman Brothers. He has written a series of bestselling books laying out the implications of globalisation, climate change and technological advance. Coming to the Intelligence Squared stage on April 3rd Friedman will bring his wisdom and insight to the world's current predicaments: How should the West respond to an emboldened China? How do we rebuild the global economy so that it creates prosperity for everyone, not just the few? And how, above all, should we handle the tectonic shifts — technological, demographic and political — that are reshaping our world today? EFTA01034314  Speaker Thomas Friedman 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. EFTA01034315  Chair Rana Mitter Historian, author and broadcaster. He is director of the University China Centre at the University of Oxford, where he is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China. His most recent book is the award- winning China's War with Japan, 1937-45: The Struggle for Survival. He is a regular presenter of the arts and ideas programme Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3. EFTA01034316 R. This week's podcast EFTA01034317  Nationalism is a Delusion: Our Futures Depend on Ever Closer Union Nationalism is a Delusion: Our Futures Depend on Ever Closer Union This week's episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast is a special episode produced by Intelligence Squared Germany in collaboration with the ECFR. Arguing for the motion "Nationalism is a Delusion: Our Futures Depend on Ever Closer Union" were Polish politician and journalist Radek Sikorski and Swiss political activist Flavia Kleiner. Against the motion were journalist and author Douglas Murray and German- Polish political scientist Aleksandra Rybinska. The debate was chaired by Josef Janning of the ECFR. EFTA01034318  LISTEN NOW 2 Share Tweet 2 Forward Become a member Intelligence Squared is proudly supported by its media partner: EFTA01034319  This email was sent to jeevacationOgmail.com why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Intelligence Squared (UK) Ltd • Newcombe House • 45 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3LO United Kingdom EFTA01034320