EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 171
EI Weekly Listen — Lawrence James on the invention of jingoism
Jingoism was a natural offshoot of late Victorian imperialism. Read by Leighton Pugh.
May 3, 2024
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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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 36
EI Talks… Caravaggio
A small but riveting exhibition at London’s National Gallery tells the dramatic story of t…
May 2, 2024
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 170
EI Weekly Listen — Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood
What is a nation, what is its significance, and to what problems of life is its persistenc…
April 26, 2024
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EI Portraits Podcast: Episode 5
EI Portraits — Nehemiah Wallington: Puritan chronicler who had far less fun than Pepys
Vanessa Harding on the God-fearing diarist Nehemiah Wallington whose personality was far r…
April 25, 2024
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 169
EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy
The biggest division in modern society is between the meritocracy and the people, the cogn…
April 19, 2024
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 35
EI Talks… the Entente Cordiale
Self-interest, imperial competition and new threats in Europe – T.G. Otte examines the com…
April 18, 2024