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
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 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
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 219
Madame Bovary and the problem of desire
Marie Daouda, lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, show…
April 17, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 218
Brendan Simms on the German key to European liberty
Germany today struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. Th…
April 11, 2025
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 64
The making of Trump’s worldview
What are the deep roots of Trump’s worldview? Can we learn to read Trump’s behaviour? And …
April 10, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 217
Iuliia Osmolovska on how Russia negotiates
Ukrainians are better placed than their Western partners to decode the Russian negotiating…
April 4, 2025