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The Engelsberg Ideas Podcast brings together the best writers, thinkers and historians to discuss the biggest issues facing the world today. Hosted by Iain Martin and Mattias Hessérus.

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Listen to Engelsberg Ideas Podcast, a Government & Organizations podcast. Stream 374 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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The civilising wonders of wine

Amid the rise of individualistic technologies and weight-loss drugs, there has been a steady decline in alcohol consumption in Western socie...

11:46May 5, 2026

Can Europe thrive in a multipolar world?

Mark Leonard, co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, speaks to EI’s Jack Dickens about Europe’s place in a ch...

53:41Apr 30, 2026

Universities are at crisis point

Daisy Christodoulou and Nicholas Wright join EI’s Paul Lay to discuss the crisis in British universities and how to fix it. Image: Sightseer...

61:42Apr 23, 2026

The anatomy of the spy novel

From the gung-ho glamour of Ian Fleming’s James Bond to the decline and disorder of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses, postwar spy novels have captu...

14:10Apr 20, 2026

The roots of the West’s identity crisis

Marie Kawthar Daouda, author of Not Your Victim: How our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us , speaks to EI’s Alastair Benn about the...

51:37Apr 16, 2026

Iran’s strange Scottish obsession

From placard-waving crowds in Yazd to troll farms on social media, the Islamic Republic has long tried to wield Scottish nationalism as a we...

10:08Apr 13, 2026

Washington’s return to Latin America

Following the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, President Donald Trump has warned that Cuba is ‘next’. What exactly d...

55:31Apr 9, 2026

The Houthis’ forever war

Elisabeth Kendall speaks to EI’s Jack Dickens about what motivates the Houthis. Following the outbreak of the war in Iran, the Yemeni milita...

50:13Apr 3, 2026

Can epic poetry revive History?

When combined, as the ancients knew, history and poetry offer an incomparable insight into the human condition. Michael Auslin laments the d...

14:32Mar 30, 2026

The need for muscular liberalism

Adrian Wooldridge speaks to EI’s Paul Lay about his new book, Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of Liberalism . He believes that...

49:45Mar 26, 2026

The first butterfly collectors

The Society of Aurelians brought butterflies out of their undeserved obscurity. Nigel Andrew’s audio essay sheds new light on Britain’s firs...

8:05Mar 23, 2026

Trump’s imperial worldview

What is driving Donald Trump’s increasingly volatile foreign policy? Brendan Simms examines the US President and his ideological roots with...

30:35Mar 19, 2026

The strange death of private life

In the early 1970s, the idea of a private life – that citizens ought to be left alone by the state – began to disappear. In this audio essay...

17:26Mar 16, 2026

The Gulf’s Iran dilemma

Shiraz Maher examines how the fallout from the US-Iran conflict is reshaping the Gulf States and the wider Middle East, with EI’s Jack Dicke...

47:41Mar 12, 2026

The rise of the mega-influencer

Mega-influencers shape the public imagination. Phillip Dolitsky and Luke Moon explore a world where narrative matters more than fact. Read b...

6:49Mar 5, 2026

Putin, the once and future Chekist

Gordon Corera contends that to truly understand Vladimir Putin, you have to understand the phenomenon of Chekism. Read by Leighton Pugh. Rea...

17:00Feb 26, 2026

When Edo became Tokyo

Christopher Harding on the birth of Tokyo. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/when-edo-became-to...

20:15Feb 19, 2026

Hamlet unravelled

Emma Smith , Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, explores Hamlet and its rich critical history with EI’s Alastair Benn an...

51:21Feb 12, 2026

The making of Xi Jinping's worldview

Rana Mitter explores Xi Jinping’s personal and ideological mindset in conversation with EI’s Jack Dickens . Image: Then Vice President Xi Ji...

72:48Feb 5, 2026

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