Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts

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Engelsberg Ideas podcasts bring together leading writers, thinkers and historians to discuss the biggest issues facing the world today. You’ll find calm conversations and thought-provoking analysis.

Episode Date
EI Weekly Listen — Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood
Apr 26, 2024
EI Portraits — Nehemiah Wallington: Puritan chronicler who had far less fun than Pepys
Apr 25, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy
Apr 19, 2024
EI Talks... the Entente Cordiale
Apr 18, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Mariano Sigman on how language has shaped human consciousness
Apr 12, 2024
EI Portraits — Anna Komnene: the princess who chronicled Byzantium’s changing fortunes
Apr 12, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Nathan Shachar on ideology in science
Apr 05, 2024
EI Talks... terrorism
Apr 05, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Gregory Feifer on the mirage of Russian power
Mar 29, 2024
EI Portraits — The many ways of seeing Saint Monica
Mar 28, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Peter Heather on empire and development in first millennium Europe
Mar 22, 2024
EI Talks... AI and education
Mar 21, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Barry Strauss on Ancient Greek geopolitics
Mar 15, 2024
EI Portraits — Jean Denis, Comte Lanjuinais: fearless opponent of The Terror
Mar 14, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on the end of 'the end of history'
Mar 08, 2024
EI Talks... Werner Herzog
Mar 06, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Michael Broers on how Napoleon built a continent
Mar 01, 2024
EI Portraits — Aspasia of Miletus: queen of the Athenian salon
Feb 29, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Norman Stone on the 1860s
Feb 23, 2024
Worldview — Ukraine, two years on
Feb 22, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — David Frum on how empire-states are changing the game
Feb 16, 2024
EI Talks... Horace
Feb 16, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Kendall on Jihadist poetry as propaganda
Feb 09, 2024
EI Talks... the Edwardians: the calm before the storm
Feb 09, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Malise Ruthven on the appeal of ISIS
Feb 02, 2024
EI Talks... can Israel win the peace?
Feb 02, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Preston on the invention of American national security
Jan 26, 2024
EI Talks... the Soviet Union's bid for Africa
Jan 26, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Charly Salonius-Pasternak on how Nordic and Baltic countries are preparing for war
Jan 19, 2024
EI Talks... Studio Ghibli
Jan 19, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Kimberly Kagan on the United States and the new way of war
Jan 12, 2024
EI Talks... December, 1941
Jan 12, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Pascal Vennesson on the rise of transnational war-making
Jan 05, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Rolf Ekéus on how to end wars
Dec 22, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Philip Bobbitt on the new global disorder
Dec 15, 2023
EI Talks... 2023
Dec 15, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Yu Jie on the deep historical roots of China's global ambition
Dec 08, 2023
EI Talks... a new world of intelligence
Dec 07, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Monaghan on how the past shapes Russian grand strategy
Dec 01, 2023
EI Talks... the challenges of counter-insurgency
Nov 30, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Pär Stenbäck on religion and politics in the Middle East
Nov 24, 2023
EI Talks... the promise and perils of declassifying intelligence
Nov 24, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Wolfgang Palaver on the complex relationship between violence and religion
Nov 17, 2023
EI Talks... Recovering the women of Augustine's Confessions
Nov 15, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Gary Lachman on the sources of mystical experience
Nov 10, 2023
EI Talks... The Beatles
Nov 10, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Benedetta Berti on the legacy of the Arab Awakening of 2010
Nov 03, 2023
EI Talks... Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy
Nov 02, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Armin W. Geertz on the pre-historical roots of religious belief
Oct 27, 2023
EI Talks... a deep history of Gaza
Oct 27, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — David Goodhart on bridging the value divide
Oct 20, 2023
EI Talks... The Iliad
Oct 20, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Jonathan Fenby on the challenge for a totalitarian China
Oct 13, 2023
EI Talks... Israel’s harrowing week and the consequences for the Middle East
Oct 13, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Kjell Nordström on the future of capitalism
Oct 06, 2023
EI Talks... Autumn
Oct 06, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Maurizio Viroli on the city as a political order and urban space
Sep 29, 2023
EI Talks... the problems and perils of nuclear strategy
Sep 29, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Gudrun Persson on rewriting Russian history
Sep 22, 2023
EI Talks... Clausewitz
Sep 22, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Fraser Nelson on the Intellectual Dark Web
Sep 15, 2023
EI Talks... JFK
Sep 14, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Christopher Coker on the changing meaning of patriotism in war
Sep 08, 2023
EI Talks... Rugby Union
Sep 08, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Remaking the moral case for capitalism by Iain Martin
Sep 01, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Spoken history: the modern importance of indigenous cultures by John Hemming
Aug 25, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Mark Plotkin on the price of deforestation
Aug 11, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — On the good society by David Goodhart
Aug 04, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Time to regulate the development of AI by Maria Borelius
Jul 28, 2023
EI Talks... Mick Jagger at 80
Jul 27, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — What the Silicon Valley idealists got wrong by Nicholas Carr
Jul 20, 2023
EI Talks... the future of tourism
Jul 20, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Wealth and poverty in Renaissance Florence by Antony Molho
Jul 14, 2023
EI Talks... anger
Jul 13, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — The public realm and the language of architecture by John Simpson
Jul 06, 2023
EI Talks... Sully, Richelieu, Mazarin
Jul 06, 2023
Can warfare ever be considered modern? By Rob Johnson
Jun 30, 2023
EI Talks... AI and the threat to the arts
Jun 29, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — War and statehood by Philip Bobbitt
Jun 23, 2023
EI Talks... Machiavelli
Jun 23, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Clashing histories and present-day tensions in East Asia by Rana Mitter
Jun 16, 2023
EI Talks... Cricket
Jun 15, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Do we know the truth about the Thirty Years’ War? By Dick Harrison
Jun 08, 2023
EI Talks... the problem with Classical music
Jun 08, 2023
EI Talks... strategy, resilience and defence
Jun 02, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Each Charter’d Street: Taking the long view on urban planning by Nicholas Boys Smith
Jun 02, 2023
EI Talks... AI
May 25, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — The geopolitics and grand strategy of Alfred Thayer Mahan by John H. Maurer
May 25, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — The cultural conversation of mankind by Christopher Coker
May 19, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Epic news by Jessica Frazier
May 12, 2023
Worldview — A Sacred Coronation for a Secular Nation
May 05, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — The other side of the hill by Simon Mayall
May 05, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — In search of Lebensraum by Richard Overy
Apr 28, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — The crusader of goodwill by Janne Haaland Matláry
Apr 21, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Where does esotericism belong in modern academia? By Marco Pasi
Apr 14, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Welcome to the fifth age of the city by Yolande Barnes
Apr 06, 2023
Worldview — the power of central banks
Apr 06, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — How the individual invented the modern West by Larry Siedentop
Mar 31, 2023
Worldview — The Return of Applied History
Mar 28, 2023
History Lessons — Katja Hoyer on East Germany
Mar 27, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Bringing beauty back to the city by Anne Fairfax
Mar 24, 2023
Worldview — The future of the museum
Mar 21, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Learning from Asian philosophies of rebirth by Jessica Frazier
Mar 17, 2023
History Lessons — Sarah Bakewell on Humanism
Mar 17, 2023
Worldview — How to end a war
Mar 15, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — America’s return as the reluctant defender of the liberal order by Kori Schake
Mar 10, 2023
Worldview — People power: dealing with demography
Mar 07, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — The City of God: on Augustine’s vision of Empire by Gillian Clark
Mar 03, 2023
Worldview — The risks and the rewards of AI
Feb 28, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Geopolitics never went away for the United States by Andrew Preston
Feb 24, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — On Civility by Erica Benner
Feb 17, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Information war does not exist by Peter Pomerantsev
Feb 10, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — The ancient roots of the modern holy war by Tom Holland
Feb 03, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — From the Silk Road to the information superhighway by Peter Frankopan
Jan 27, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Finding Garibaldi by Lucy Riall
Jan 20, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — What did it mean to belong to the Holy Roman Empire? by Peter Wilson
Jan 13, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East by Brendan Simms
Jan 06, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — What is mistake theory and can it save the humanities? By Claire Lehmann
Dec 22, 2022
Worldview — Genome, the dangers and potential of gene editing
Dec 16, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The Case of East Asia by Jonathan Fenby
Dec 16, 2022
Worldview — China and India: a new struggle for dominance
Dec 09, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — How to fix the future, Estonian style by Andrew Keen
Dec 08, 2022
Worldview — Revolution and evolution: the history of the book
Dec 02, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Why the nation beat the empire in the battle of nineteenth century ideas by Jeremy Jennings
Dec 02, 2022
Worldview — Pressure on the power network
Nov 25, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The joy of suffering by Candida Moss
Nov 25, 2022
Worldview — The nuclear threat today
Nov 15, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The Revolt of the European Masses: the disintegration of accountability in supra-national politics by Janne Haaland Matlary
Nov 11, 2022
Worldview — The global struggle for microchip supremacy
Nov 09, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Rethinking geopolitics by Jeremy Black
Nov 04, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Why the idea of Carthage survived Roman conquest by Richard Miles
Oct 28, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The end of history ends by Walter Russell Mead
Oct 21, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The restless search for the fun wars by David J Betz
Oct 14, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The impact of the First World War on strategy by Hew Strachan
Oct 07, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The polymath in the age of specialisation by Peter Burke
Sep 30, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Authority without knowledge by Erica Benner
Sep 23, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Geopolitics and the Mongol Empire by Morris Rossabi
Sep 16, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Fairy Tales of Statehood: the politics of sacred land and divine-kings by Jessica Frazier
Sep 09, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Why War Again by Lilia Shevtsova
Sep 02, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Jihadist Media Strategies by Elisabeth Kendall
Aug 26, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The Joint Intelligence Committee: Reading the Russian mindset by Michael Goodman
Aug 19, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Democracy in crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens by Erica Benner
Aug 12, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Tribal bias from the wild to the laboratory by Cory J Clark
Aug 05, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Love as Religion by Simon May
Jul 29, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The Gospel of Thomas: casting a new light on Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels
Jul 22, 2022
Worldview — The battle for energy resources
Jul 13, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Why 16 billion cortical neurons are not enough by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Jul 13, 2022
Worldview — Leadership in war
Jul 08, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Modern France and the ghosts of the past by Peter Ricketts
Jul 08, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Lawrence of Arabia on war: How the past haunts the present by Rob Johnson
Jul 01, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The importance of the individual in history by Vernon Bogdanor
Jun 24, 2022
Worldview — Conflict in space
Jun 24, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Geopolitics, geoeconomics and Russian revisionism by Mikael Wigell
Jun 17, 2022
Worldview — The Battlefield
Jun 17, 2022
Worldview — The Russia Problem
Jun 12, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Containing and deterring Russia: can Europe act strategically? by Janne Haaland Matlary
Jun 01, 2022
Worldview — The World Remade
Jun 01, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The long peace and nuclear deterrence by Lawrence Freedman
May 27, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Variety in Judaism by Martin Goodman
May 20, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — America's problem with unconventional warfare by Frederick Kagan
May 13, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Suffering, the price of being alive: an Islamic perspective by Mona Siddiqui
May 06, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Reassessing Christian history by Diarmaid Macculloch
Apr 29, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The gods in love by Jessica Frazier
Apr 22, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The story of the Jesuits: how the Society of Jesus charted the world by M.Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J.
Apr 14, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The Portuguese: Pioneers of globalisation by Roger Crowley
Apr 08, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Elements of seapower, past and present by Lincoln Paine
Apr 01, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Making sense of the Yemen War by Elisabeth Kendall
Mar 25, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The dark side to loving a group by Harvey Whitehouse
Mar 18, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The fake history of civilisational states by Christopher Coker
Mar 11, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The flag wars are here to stay by Tim Marshall
Mar 04, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Disinformation in the information age by Gill Bennett
Feb 25, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Roman geopolitics, an exercise in myth-making by Richard Miles
Feb 18, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — How US policy failure post-9/11 undermined international order by Emma Sky
Feb 11, 2022
EI Weekly Listen—Uruk and the origins of the sacred economy by Daniel T. Potts
Feb 04, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy revisited by Niall Ferguson
Jan 28, 2022
EI Weekly Listen—Cool war by Noah Feldman
Jan 21, 2022
EI Weekly Listen—Russia and geopolitics by Anna-Lena Laurén
Jan 14, 2022
EI Weekly Listen—Fantasy in Middle Eastern nation-making by Nathan Shachar
Jan 05, 2022
EI Weekly Listen – You are not as clever as you think by Mark Pagel
Dec 23, 2021
EI Weekly Listen – Adrian Wooldridge on the return of religion
Dec 17, 2021
EI Weekly Listen - Martina Winkelhofer-Thyri on whether Austria is a nation, state or an empire
Oct 08, 2021
EI Weekly Listen - Tom Holland on Æthelstan and the forging of a United Kingdom of England
Oct 01, 2021
EI Weekly Listen - Maurizio Viroli on the virtues of the city-state
Sep 24, 2021
EI Weekly Listen - Robin Lane Fox on nationalism in the classical world
Sep 17, 2021
EI Weekly Listen - Hew Strachan on the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic
Sep 03, 2021
EI Weekly Listen – Alexander Lee on Machiavelli and civil strife
Aug 20, 2021
EI Weekly Listen – Adrian Wooldridge on why the West needs Plato more than ever
Aug 20, 2021
EI Weekly Listen – Richard Whatmore on why revolutions are a disaster
Aug 13, 2021
36: EI Weekly Listen – Andrew Graham-Dixon on crisis and great art
Jul 29, 2021
35: EI Weekly Listen – Tom Holland on the empty metropolis
Jul 28, 2021
34: EI Weekly Listen - Donald Sassoon on a world of nations and states
Jul 22, 2021
33: EI Weekly Listen – Jonathan Fenby on China's great uncoupling
Jul 09, 2021
31: EI Weekly Listen – David Seedhouse: Covid-19 and the moral case for personal judgement
Jun 25, 2021
30: EI Weekly Listen – Matthew Goodwin: Meet the Zoomer generation
Jun 18, 2021
29: EI Weekly Listen – Tim Marshall: New Turkey's old politics
Jun 09, 2021
28: Weekly Listen – Graham Stewart on Thatcher's rescue from historical cliché
Jun 03, 2021
27: EI Weekly Listen – Mark Honigsbaum: Challenging the 'Great Reset' theory of pandemics
May 28, 2021
25: EI Weekly Listen – Clive Aslet: The changing fate of the English country house
May 20, 2021
23: EI Weekly Listen – Helen Thompson: Geopolitics of a pandemic
May 06, 2021
21: EI Weekly Listen – Philip Bobbitt: A government of laws
Apr 29, 2021
20: EI Weekly Listen – Vanessa Harding: Remembering London's last Great Plague
Apr 22, 2021
19: EI Weekly Listen – Johan Hakelius: John Hughes and the making and unmaking of the American Dream
Apr 13, 2021
18: EI Weekly Listen - Iskander Rehman: Why applied history matters
Apr 08, 2021
16: EI Weekly Listen – Gillian Clark: Survival lessons from Ancient Rome
Mar 26, 2021
15: EI Weekly Listen – Peter Frankopan: This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic
Mar 19, 2021
12: Can America lead again?
Jan 22, 2021
11: GCHQ – John Ferris on the official history
Dec 19, 2020
10: MI9 – Helen Fry on wartime escape
Dec 15, 2020
9: David Omand on what it takes to think like a secret agent
Dec 14, 2020
8: Fredrik Logevall on JFK
Dec 04, 2020
7: Covid and reform: can the West fix its governing systems?
Nov 13, 2020
6: Alexander Lee on Machiavelli
Sep 28, 2020
5: Asian Philosophies of Rebirth with Jessica Frazier
Sep 11, 2020
4: Can the West be revived?
Jul 23, 2020
3: Leadership in a Crisis with Andrew Roberts
Jul 10, 2020
2: The History of Quarantine with Lincoln Paine
Jul 01, 2020
Art, History and Pandemics with Tom Holland
Jun 17, 2020