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Clive Aslet: The changing fate of the English country house
Episode 25
Amid the tumult of the 1970s, it appeared the traditional country house had gone into irreversible decline - but it was too early to write it off. Re…
5 years ago
Worldview – Can meritocracy be rescued and repaired?
Episode 24
Iain Martin is joined by Adrian Wooldridge and Daniel Markovits to discuss the crisis of opportunity and self-reinforcing elites.
5 years ago
Helen Thompson: Geopolitics of a pandemic
Episode 23
The Covid-19 crisis has accentuated all the geopolitical fault lines of the past decade. Read by Leighton Pugh.
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/geo…
5 years ago
History Lessons – Catherine Ostler on Elizabeth Chudleigh
Episode 22
Mattias Hessérus is in conversation with Catherine Ostler on the 18th-century Duchess who scandalised a nation.
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5 years, 1 month ago
Philip Bobbitt: A government of laws
Episode 21
The constitutional order is changing as citizens become alienated and demand more say. Americans must take care that their habits of law are not swep…
5 years, 1 month ago
Vanessa Harding: Remembering London's last Great Plague
Episode 20
London's response to its last plague epidemic involved close collaboration between crown, City and parish. Read by Leighton Pugh.
https://engelsbergid…
5 years, 1 month ago
Johan Hakelius: John Hughes and the making and unmaking of the American Dream
Episode 19
The films of John Hughes updated the American Dream for a new generation, and his complex legacy helps us understand what went so wrong. Read by Leig…
5 years, 1 month ago
Iskander Rehman: Why applied history matters
Episode 18
Forget the seduction of grand theories and presentist moral judgments. To learn the lessons of the past, the great foreign policy analysts of our age…
5 years, 1 month ago
History Lessons – Margaret MacMillan on war
Episode 17
Mattias Hessérus is in conversation with Margaret MacMillan on how conflict has shaped human society, politics and psychology.
5 years, 2 months ago
Gillian Clark: Survival lessons from Ancient Rome
Episode 16
The Romans have so much to teach us about what it means to live in a society in crisis. Read by Leighton Pugh.
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/surv…
5 years, 2 months ago