The EI Podcast
1821 and the invention of world order
Historian Damian Valdez on international order’s 19th-century origins.
October 31, 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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The EI Podcast
The growing-pains of Graham Greene
Critic Malcolm Forbes investigates Graham Greene’s troubled childhood. Read by Leighton Pu…
October 24, 2025
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The EI Podcast
The Slavic War according to Stalin
Historian Luka Ivan Jukic explores how Stalin hijacked the Slavic cause to forge the Sovie…
October 17, 2025
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The EI Podcast
A warning to the young: just say no to AI
Aaron MacLean, host of the School of War podcast, on AI’s threat to the life of the mind.
October 10, 2025
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The EI Podcast
The Slow Horses are Britain’s perfect spies
Alastair Benn on the magic of Mick Herron’s Slough House series. Read by Leighton Pugh.
October 3, 2025
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The EI Podcast
Stephen Kotkin on a new age of warfare
EI’s Paul Lay discusses a world order in flux with Stephen Kotkin, historian and biographe…
September 26, 2025