Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton

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🗓️ 18 December 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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What really divides the left and the right? To answer this question, Intelligence Squared brought together two giants of British intellectual culture for an ideological reckoning: Terry Eagleton, literary critic and long-time hero of the radical left, and Roger Scruton, right-wing philosopher who has written on everything from economic theory to literature, and architecture to wine. What we heard was two two irreducibly different views of the world, where each tries hard to understand the other’s view. — We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be. Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to [email protected] or Tweet us @intelligence2. And if you’d like to support our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations, as well as ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content, early access and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared.. Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Maybe 30 or 20 years ago a Saudi might have said I'm Muslim and I'm Arab and I'm Saudi
0:06.9	Now they might say I'm Saudi and I'm Arab and I'm Muslim
0:09.9	You know they're trying to radically refashion their country and they need help from the best experts in the world
0:15.1	Do you want to have your country's people be disqualified from that because of some essentially antiquated point of view about how countries work together?
0:23.4	In recent months it can feel like Saudi Arabia is intent on buying the world.
0:27.8	It's bought up much of golf, sports teams, many of the globe's best soccer players to its
0:32.4	own domestic league, and it owns huge chunks of many of the biggest companies on the planet.
0:37.5	But Saudi Arabia is not just on a shopping spree.
0:40.5	The once insular oil-rich Kingdom is transforming into a major diplomatic and military
0:46.0	player, a pivotal actor in the energy transition and looks set to host high-end cultural events
0:51.6	like the FIFA World Cup.
0:53.0	You know, they know that buying a football club immediately brings you a
0:57.2	billboard into a global game that allows you to completely reposition yourself
1:02.2	or rebrand yourself.
1:03.4	It feels like we're entering the era of the Saudi project.
1:06.6	But what exactly is the kingdom trying to achieve and will it succeed?
1:10.4	Available now from Intelligence Squared, The Saudi project is a new podcast series seeking to answer some of these questions and more.
1:18.0	Britain does have choices. It's not either or situation. We either indulge Mohammed bin Salman or boycott of Mohammed
1:26.2	bin Salman. There is a third choice.
1:28.8	Search the Saudi project wherever you get your podcasts.
1:38.0	Thank you for downloading this Intelligence Square podcast. For more information on our debates, talks and discussions,
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