2025-07-02
39 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
Today's episode is part two of our recent live event with Helen Lewis and Armando Anucci,
who were in discussion live at Conway Hall in London to ask
if the modern idea of genius is distorting our view of the world.
Let's join Helen and Armando in conversation now.
I think this is one of the most powerful bits in the book really
because What being called a genius does to someone,
usually mostly a male, is allow them to get away with anything else,
to be badly misbehaved or to be appalling with their family.
I mean, I think Tolstoy is a really good example of this.
He was...
He was an aristocrat anyway, so he had lots of money.
And then he became so famous, he was sort of father of the nation.
But he put the whole family through his every little whim.
At one point he was like, we're all vegetarian now.
And they had to be vegetarian.
At one point he went, we're all going to Mongolia,
because I want to reconnect with nature in a yurt.
I mean, he was very much...