EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 230
Why do we get the wrong leaders?
James Vitali reflects on the profound importance of political judgement. Read by Leighton …
August 8, 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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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 229
Why liberal democracies win total wars
Journalist Duncan Weldon reveals how liberal capitalist economies adapt to total war. Read…
August 1, 2025
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 69
No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century
EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Andrew Lambert to discuss his book ‘No More Napoleons: How B…
July 25, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 228
The rift that doomed the Confederacy
Historian Katherine Bayford exposes the fractures and contradictions that doomed the Confe…
July 18, 2025
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 68
The Trial at 100: revisiting Kafka’s prophetic masterpiece
This year marks the centenary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial – a sem…
July 11, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 227
How the Knights Templars conquered Christendom
Historian Nicholas Morton explores how a miracle of marketing brought the Knights Templars…
July 4, 2025