EI Weekly Podcast: Episode
The strange death of squalor
Journalist and author Jenny McCartney celebrates the magic of squalor, and explores how ge…
May 30, 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 222
Why Finns joined the fight
Geopolitical analyst Charly Salonius-Pasternak examines Finland’s long journey to full mem…
May 23, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 221
The West’s lust for liberty
The late Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations at the London School of E…
May 16, 2025
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 66
Christianity and the creation of England
In this episode of The EI Podcast, the historian Bijan Omrani is joined by EI’s Paul Lay t…
May 9, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 220
How the liberation of France shaped the modern world
Agnès Poirier, journalist and broadcaster, examines how the liberation of France in 1944 o…
May 2, 2025
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 65
China vs the WTO: The Inside Story
EI’s Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are joined by Michael Sheridan, author of two books on Chi…
April 24, 2025