Centre for Ideas

What is a former public defender and law professor doing taking LSD?

Is it time to stop sitting on the fence and choose China?

What we don’t understand often looks dangerous, and the barriers of our own anxieties are hard to get over.

A message of hope from World Vision's Chief Advocate, Tim Costello at the 2019 Gandhi Oration.

Are there some ideas which are too dangerous to discuss?

Will the media be the death of our democracy?

Chuck Klosterman says the history of ideas is the history of people getting things wrong. 

Hear Niall Ferguson discuss how it's wrong to compare Trump to a fascist. 

If robots can deliver sex without feelings and intimacy without commitment, what happens to relationships?

Listen to Stephen Fry deliver a masterclass on the lost art of fabulous disagreement at the 2018 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

Hear technology sociologist Zeynep Tufekci share how big tech is exploiting your data.

The Festival of Dangerous Ideas presented this year for the first time in conjunction with UNSW Centre for Ideas, asked some fascinating questions.