Best of Engelsberg Ideas in 2023
- December 31, 2023
- Engelsberg Ideas
Here is a selection of ten pieces we have published in the last twelve months which highlight the biggest stories and themes of 2023 — a year in ideas.
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