EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 169
EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy
The biggest division in modern society is between the meritocracy and the people, the cogn…
April 19, 2024
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?
The biggest division in modern society is between the meritocracy and the people, the cogn…
April 19, 2024
Self-interest, imperial competition and new threats in Europe – T.G. Otte examines the com…
April 18, 2024
How did our ancestors think? Read by Leighton Pugh.
April 12, 2024
Peter Frankopan on the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene who, banished to a convent for her …
April 12, 2024
There is no linear, moral progress in knowledge and science. Read by Leighton Pugh.
April 5, 2024
EI’s Deputy Editor Alastair Benn speaks to Suzanne Raine, visiting professor in the Depart…
April 5, 2024