EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 225
1975, the year that made the modern world
Historian Damian Valdez reflects on the meaning of 1975, a fateful year for the internatio…
June 20, 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?
Historian Damian Valdez reflects on the meaning of 1975, a fateful year for the internatio…
June 20, 2025
EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Tim Bouverie to discuss ‘Allies at War’, his gripping new bo…
June 13, 2025
Writer Luka Ivan Jukic laments the all-but-total disappearance of facial hair from politic…
June 6, 2025
Journalist and author Jenny McCartney celebrates the magic of squalor, and explores how ge…
May 30, 2025
Geopolitical analyst Charly Salonius-Pasternak examines Finland’s long journey to full mem…
May 23, 2025
The late Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations at the London School of E…
May 16, 2025