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
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?
James Vitali reflects on the profound importance of political judgement. Read by Leighton …
August 8, 2025
Journalist Duncan Weldon reveals how liberal capitalist economies adapt to total war. Read…
August 1, 2025
EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Andrew Lambert to discuss his book ‘No More Napoleons: How B…
July 25, 2025
Historian Katherine Bayford exposes the fractures and contradictions that doomed the Confe…
July 18, 2025
This year marks the centenary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial – a sem…
July 11, 2025
Historian Nicholas Morton explores how a miracle of marketing brought the Knights Templars…
July 4, 2025