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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.
Amid the rise of individualistic technologies and weight-loss drugs, there has been a steady decline in alcohol consumption in Western socie...
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...
In the courtrooms of Nuremberg and Tokyo, the victorious Allies declared that civilisation must not merely win wars but also judge them, lea...
Daisy Christodoulou and Nicholas Wright join EI’s Paul Lay to discuss the crisis in British universities and how to fix it. Image: Sightseer...
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...
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...
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...
Following the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, President Donald Trump has warned that Cuba is ‘next’. What exactly d...
Elisabeth Kendall speaks to EI’s Jack Dickens about what motivates the Houthis. Following the outbreak of the war in Iran, the Yemeni milita...
When combined, as the ancients knew, history and poetry offer an incomparable insight into the human condition. Michael Auslin laments the d...
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...
The Society of Aurelians brought butterflies out of their undeserved obscurity. Nigel Andrew’s audio essay sheds new light on Britain’s firs...
What is driving Donald Trump’s increasingly volatile foreign policy? Brendan Simms examines the US President and his ideological roots with...
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...
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...
Mega-influencers shape the public imagination. Phillip Dolitsky and Luke Moon explore a world where narrative matters more than fact. Read b...
Gordon Corera contends that to truly understand Vladimir Putin, you have to understand the phenomenon of Chekism. Read by Leighton Pugh. Rea...
Christopher Harding on the birth of Tokyo. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/when-edo-became-to...
Emma Smith , Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, explores Hamlet and its rich critical history with EI’s Alastair Benn an...
Rana Mitter explores Xi Jinping’s personal and ideological mindset in conversation with EI’s Jack Dickens . Image: Then Vice President Xi Ji...
Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri on reading as an antidote to the restless spirit of the industrial age. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the original...
Jonathan Sumption surveys the last generation of spies before the creation of Europe's professional intelligence services. Read by Leighton...
EI's Jack Dickens is joined by Charlie Laderman , associate professor at the University of Florida’s Hamilton Center, to discuss how the Uni...
Alastair Benn is joined by Leo Damrosch, author of Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson , to explore the life and legacy of the c...
EI's Paul Lay is joined by Helen Thompson to discuss US–China rivalry, the growing importance of the Western Hemisphere in geopolitics, and...
EI's Paul Lay is joined by neuroscientist Nicholas Wright to discuss how the brain shapes war, and how war shapes the brain. Image: The brai...
Graeme Thompson on the fall of a liberal world order. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essay...
John Tasioulas examines how a classical conception of democracy – distinct from liberal democracy – may offer the resources needed to meet t...
Gerald Warner on the origins of a 'black legend' designed to discredit the once-flourishing Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Read by Lei...
EI's Paul Lay is joined by technology analyst Dan Wang to discuss how China has engineered its way to global power status. Image: New high-r...
Bill Emmott profiles Lafcadio Hearn, the Anglo-Irish-Greek foreign correspondent who made Japan his home. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the or...
Bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses his new book, 1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History , with EI'...
Historian Damian Valdez on international order's 19th-century origins. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the original essay here: https://engelsbe...
Critic Malcolm Forbes investigates Graham Greene's troubled childhood. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the original essay here: https://engelsbe...
Historian Luka Ivan Jukic explores how Stalin hijacked the Slavic cause to forge the Soviet Empire. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the original...
Aaron MacLean , host of the School of War podcast, on AI's threat to the life of the mind. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the original essay he...
Alastair Benn on the magic of Mick Herron’s Slough House series. Image: Still from Apple TV's Slow Horses. Credit: LANDMARK MEDIA / Alamy St...
EI's Paul Lay discusses a world order in flux with Stephen Kotkin , historian and biographer of Stalin. Image: A Canadian soldier during a N...
Why do people the world over enjoy listening to songs sung in French? Critic Muriel Zagha illuminates the living tradition of French chanson...
Alastair Benn explores an attention dilemma that has haunted western thought for centuries. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the original essay h...
Historian David Cowan explains how radical reform can reshape the state. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the original essay here: https://engels...
David Omand , ex-head of GCHQ, the British government's world-renowned cyber agency, explores how intelligence officers exploit the latest t...
EI's Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are joined by Jonathan Esty , of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, to discuss Graham G...
Samuel Rubinstein explores how Nazi historiographers sought to present Adolf Hitler as the heir to Charlemagne. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read...
James Vitali reflects on the profound importance of political judgement. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the original essay here: https://engels...
Journalist Duncan Weldon reveals how liberal capitalist economies adapt to total war. Read by Leighton Pugh. Read the original essay here: h...
EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Andrew Lambert to discuss his book ‘No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War O...
Historian Katherine Bayford exposes the fractures and contradictions that doomed the Confederacy from within. Read by Leighton Pugh. FURTHER...
This year marks the centenary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial - a seminal work that continues to captivate and unsettle...
Historian Nicholas Morton explores how a miracle of marketing brought the Knights Templars to prominence. Read by Leighton Pugh. FURTHER REA...