Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
EI Weekly Listen – Adrian Wooldridge on why the West needs Plato more than ever
The Victorians saw Plato's Republic as an indispensable guide to reform of the public sphere - we should follow their lead. Read by Leighton Pugh.
htt…
4 years, 7 months ago
EI Weekly Listen – Richard Whatmore on why revolutions are a disaster
Karl Marx was wrong about revolutions - in practice, they beget Caesars and Napoleons. Read by Leighton Pugh.
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/histo…
4 years, 7 months ago
EI Weekly Listen – Andrew Graham-Dixon on crisis and great art
Episode 36
Social upheaval has often been a catalyst for artistic change - the Renaissance was no exception. Read by Leighton Pugh.
https://engelsbergideas.com/e…
4 years, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen – Tom Holland on the empty metropolis
Episode 35
Empty city London had its harbingers in literature and history. How will it emerge from its isolation? Read by Leighton Pugh.
https://engelsbergideas.…
4 years, 8 months ago
Donald Sassoon on a world of nations and states
Episode 34
Despite globalisation, the nation state retains its privileged position in world politics. Read by Leighton Pugh.
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/a…
4 years, 8 months ago
Jonathan Fenby on China's great uncoupling
Episode 33
Beijing wants to foster a world where Chinese standards replace those of the post-1945 US-led system. Read by Leighton Pugh.
https://engelsbergideas.c…
4 years, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen – Hew Strachan on the 1918-19 pandemic
Episode 33
The influenza pandemic behaved much like the Great War itself - picking out the young and fit before their time. Read by Leighton Pugh.
4 years, 8 months ago
History Lessons – Jonathan Dimbleby on Operation Barbarossa
Episode 32
Mattias Hessérus in conversation with Jonathan Dimbleby on the strategic decision that cost Hitler the war.
Credit: Art Media / Print Collector / Ge…
4 years, 9 months ago
David Seedhouse: Covid-19 and the moral case for personal judgement
Episode 31
The tension between independence and compliance is everywhere in society – but in medicine, reason must come before rules. Read by Leighton Pugh.
http…
4 years, 9 months ago
Matthew Goodwin: Meet the Zoomer generation
Episode 30
This period of turbulence could turn today's twenty-somethings into the leaders of a new liberal revolution. Read by Leighton Pugh.
https://engelsberg…
4 years, 9 months ago