The EI Podcast
The Risorgimento myth
Gerald Warner on the origins of a ‘black legend’ designed to discredit the once-flourishin…
November 27, 2025
Meritocracy Week
It’s Meritocracy Week on Engelsberg Ideas. Leading writers explore the global history of merit in culture and politics. Do meritocracies deliver on their promise? Is meritocracy working? Can the concept be fixed?
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The EI Podcast
Dan Wang on China’s quest to engineer the future
EI’s Paul Lay is joined by technology analyst Dan Wang to discuss how China has engineered…
November 21, 2025
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The EI Podcast
The double agent who introduced Japan to the West
Bill Emmott profiles Lafcadio Hearn, the Anglo-Irish-Greek foreign correspondent who made …
November 14, 2025
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The EI Podcast
Andrew Ross Sorkin on lessons from the Wall Street Crash
Bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses his new book, ‘1929: The Inside Story of T…
November 7, 2025
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The EI Podcast
1821 and the invention of world order
Historian Damian Valdez on international order’s 19th-century origins.
October 31, 2025
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The EI Podcast
The growing-pains of Graham Greene
Critic Malcolm Forbes investigates Graham Greene’s troubled childhood. Read by Leighton Pu…
October 24, 2025