EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 216
Juliet Samuel on liberty under attack
Just as generations did before us, we are learning that a belief in liberty is not self-ev…
March 28, 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 Talks… Podcast: Episode 63
The uses of comedy
What makes us laugh? And why should it matter? EI’s Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are join…
March 27, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 215
Roel Sterckx on gazing back to see China’s future
We must study the centuries-long history that has forged the DNA of Chinese political thin…
March 21, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 214
Alexander Lee on the myth of Venice
Liberty was central to the idea of Venice, but was remarkably fragile. The republic had to…
March 14, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 213
Richard Miles on Spartacus, history’s nowhere man
Spartacus is a figure who floats between history and allegory. Read by Helen Lloyd.
March 7, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 212
Mary Elise Sarotte on how a Second Cold War could have been averted
The choice to enlarge NATO was a justifiable response to the geopolitics of the 1990s. The…
February 28, 2025