Best of Engelsberg Ideas in 2023

Thank you for reading Engelsberg Ideas this year. We hope you’ve enjoyed our writing and podcasts featuring leading academics, commentators and authors. Below is a selection of some of the highlights from 2023.

The Engelsberg Ideas team is taking a break and returns on 2 January 2024.

We wish you a Happy New Year.

Taking Pushkin off his pedestal — Thomas de Waal

The true genius of automata — Gaby Wood

The many worlds of Peter Brown — Peter Sarris

A most rebellious territory — Michael Sheridan

The strange death of private life — Tiffany Jenkins

Finding Turkey in Narnia — Hannah Lucinda Smith

How 1970s California created the modern world — Francis  J. Gavin

Days that shake the world — Suzanne Raine

De Gaulle’s world in motion — Julian Jackson

Israel’s new Yom Kippur — Ahron Bregman

From our podcasts…

A deep history of Gaza with James Barr

EI talks… The Iliad, hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay

The promise and perils of declassifying intelligence with Calder Walton

Recovering the women of Augustine’s Confessions with Kate Cooper

JFK biographer Fredrik Logevall, in conversation with EI’s Paul Lay and Iain Martin