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Why powerful individuals are dominating politics
May 11, 2026
17m 41s
Weimar’s descent into darkness
May 7, 2026
1h 03m 13s
The civilising wonders of wine
May 5, 2026
11m 46s
Can Europe thrive in a multipolar world?
Apr 30, 2026
53m 41s
The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials
Apr 27, 2026
27m 10s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/11/26 |  Why powerful individuals are dominating politics | From Xi Jinping in China to Narendra Modi in India and Donald Trump in the US, Nicholas Wright explores how powerful leaders are reshaping the rules of the global great game. Read by Leighton Pugh.Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/why-powerful-individuals-are-dominating-politics/.Image: Caspar David Friedrich’s ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’. Credit: incamerastock | 17m 41s | ||||||
| 5/7/26 |  Weimar’s descent into darkness✨ | Weimar RepublicGermany+4 | Katja Hoyer | Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe | Weimar | WeimarGoethe+7 | — | 1h 03m 13s | |
| 5/5/26 |  The civilising wonders of wine✨ | alcohol consumptioncivilisation+3 | — | Engelsberg IdeasLuncheon of the Boating Party | — | winealcohol+3 | — | 11m 46s | |
| 4/30/26 |  Can Europe thrive in a multipolar world?✨ | Europemultipolar world+3 | Mark Leonard | European Council on Foreign Relations | SiracusaEurope+2 | Europemultipolar world+3 | — | 53m 41s | |
| 4/27/26 |  The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials✨ | Nuremberg TrialsTokyo Trials+4 | — | Allies | — | Nuremberg TrialsTokyo Trials+5 | — | 27m 10s | |
| 4/23/26 |  Universities are at crisis point✨ | crisis in educationBritish universities+1 | Daisy ChristodoulouNicholas Wright | British universities | Bodleian LibraryUniversity of Oxford | universitiescrisis+4 | — | 1h 01m 42s | |
| 4/20/26 |  The anatomy of the spy novel✨ | spy novelspostwar literature+4 | — | James BondSlow Horses+1 | — | spy novelIan Fleming+5 | — | 14m 10s | |
| 4/16/26 |  The roots of the West’s identity crisis✨ | identity crisisdecolonization+4 | Marie Kawthar Daouda | Not Your Victim: How our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides UsRuins with an Obelisk in the distance | — | identity crisisdecolonization+4 | — | 51m 37s | |
| 4/13/26 |  Iran’s strange Scottish obsession✨ | Scottish nationalismIran+3 | — | Islamic Republic | YazdUK | IranScottish nationalism+3 | — | 10m 08s | |
| 4/9/26 |  Washington’s return to Latin America✨ | US interventionismLatin America+4 | Joseph Ledford | Hoover InstitutionEI | CubaVenezuela | US interventionLatin America+5 | — | 55m 31s | |
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| 4/3/26 |  The Houthis’ forever war✨ | YemenHouthis+3 | Elisabeth Kendall | Houthis | IranYemen+1 | HouthisYemen+5 | — | 50m 13s | |
| 3/30/26 |  Can epic poetry revive History?✨ | epic poetryhistory+3 | Michael Auslin | Engelsberg IdeasCan epic poetry revive History? | — | epic poetryhistory+3 | — | 14m 32s | |
| 3/26/26 |  The need for muscular liberalism✨ | liberalismpolitical philosophy+3 | Adrian Wooldridge | Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of LiberalismLeviathan | — | liberalismpolitics+5 | — | 49m 45s | |
| 3/23/26 |  The first butterfly collectors✨ | entomologybutterflies+3 | — | Society of AureliansThe Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies | Britain | butterfly collectorsentomological society+3 | — | 8m 05s | |
| 3/19/26 |  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 EI’s Jack Dickens.Image: Donald Trump at the White House, July 2025. Credit: Alamy | 30m 35s | ||||||
| 3/16/26 |  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, Tiffany Jenkins argues that we should mourn its absence. Read by Leighton Pugh.Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-strange-death-of-private-life/.Image: 1930s poster for the London Underground. Credit: Alamy | 17m 26s | ||||||
| 3/12/26 |  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 Dickens.Image: Close-up vintage map of the Middle East. Credit: Alamy | 47m 41s | ||||||
| 3/5/26 |  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 by Leighton Pugh.Image: Still from a film version of George Orwell's 1984. Credit: Allstar Picture Library Limited | 6m 49s | ||||||
| 2/26/26 |  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.Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/putin-the-once-and-future-chekist/. Image: Vladimir Putin's East German Stasi identification card issued while he worked as a KGB agent in Dresden in 1985. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd | 17m 00s | ||||||
| 2/19/26 |  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-tokyo/. Image: A woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige. From One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856. Credit: incamerastock / Alamy Stock Photo | 20m 15s | ||||||
| 2/12/26 |  Hamlet unravelled | Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, explores Hamlet and its rich critical history with EI’s Alastair Benn and Paul Lay.Image: Laurence Olivier plays Hamlet in 1948. Credit: Masheter Movie Archive | 51m 21s | ||||||
| 2/5/26 |  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 Jinping makes an address in preparation for the 2008 Olympics. Credit: Imago | 1h 12m 48s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 |  Nietzsche’s manifesto for reading | Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri on reading as an antidote to the restless spirit of the industrial age. Read by Leighton Pugh.Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/nietzsches-manifesto-for-reading/.Image: Edvard Munch's painting of Friedrich Nietzsche. Credit: Darling Archive / Alamy Stock Photo | 11m 39s | ||||||
| 1/22/26 |  Inside the world of medieval espionage | Jonathan Sumption surveys the last generation of spies before the creation of Europe's professional intelligence services. Read by Leighton Pugh.Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/inside-the-world-of-medieval-espionage/.Image: King Charles VI of France prepares for war. Credit: Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo | 16m 22s | ||||||
| 1/15/26 |  The Monroe Doctrine: The United States’ hemispheric strategy explained | EI's Jack Dickens is joined by Charlie Laderman, associate professor at the University of Florida’s Hamilton Center, to discuss how the United States’ hemispheric ambitions emerged from great-power competition – and why the Monroe Doctrine still matters.Image: A satirical cartoon lampooning the expansion of the Monroe Doctrine. Credit: Photo 12 | 57m 38s | ||||||
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12 placements across 12 markets.
Chart Positions
12 placements across 12 markets.