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In this episode of The EI Podcast, the historian Bijan Omrani (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/bijan-omrani/) is joined by EI&#39;s Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) to explore the indelible mark Christianity has left on England’s identity and culture.

FURTHER READING:

The tragic decline of Christian rituals | Bijan Omrani (https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-tragic-...
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How the liberation of France shaped the modern world
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Agnès Poirier (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/agnes-poirier/) , journalist and broadcaster, examines how the liberation of France in 1944 opened the way for Paris to become a laboratory of ideas. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

The liberation of France made the modern world | Agnès Poirier (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-liberation-of-france-made-the-modern-world/)

Engelsbe...
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China vs the WTO: The Inside Story
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EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-subtle-art-of-english-comedy/) and Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) are joined by Michael Sheridan (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/michael-sheridan/) , author of two books on China and a foreign correspondent for 40 years, to discuss China’s rise, its subsequent entry into the international trading system, and...
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Marie Daouda (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/marie-daouda/) , lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, shows how the pursuit of apparently &#39;real&#39; desires comes at the expense of collective truth. The consequences can be disastrous. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

The truth shall set us free | Marie Daouda (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-truth-s...
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Brendan Simms (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/brendan-simms/) , founder and Director of the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge, illustrates why contemporary Germany struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

The German key to European liberty | Brendan Simms (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-germ...
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What are the deep roots of Trump&#39;s worldview? Can we learn to read Trump’s behaviour? And are there opportunities to be had for those who can?

EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) and Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) are joined by Charlie Laderman (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/charlie-laderman/) , Senior Lecturer in International H...
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Engelsberg Ideas (https://engelsbergideas.com/) is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit (https://axsonjohn...
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Juliet Samuel (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/juliet-samuel/) , columnist for The Times newspaper, highlights that a belief in liberty is not self-evident and its expansion is not inevitable. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

Liberty under attack from enemies within | Juliet Samuel (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/liberty-under-attack-from-enemies-within/)

Engelsberg Ideas (https:...
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What makes us laugh? And why should it matter?

EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) and Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) are joined by the critic Mathew Lyons (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/mathew-lyons/) to discuss the uses of comedy.

FURTHER READING:

The subtle art of English comedy | Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/e...
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Gazing back to see China’s future
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Roel Sterckx (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/roel-sterckx/) , the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at Cambridge University, makes the case for studying China&#39;s centuries-long history. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

Gazing back to see China’s future | Roel Sterckx (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/gazing-back-to-see-chinas-future/)

Engelsberg...
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Alexander Lee (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alexander-lee/) , author of Machiavelli: His Life and Times, argues that liberty was central to the idea of Venice. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

Liberty and the myth of Venice | Alexander Lee (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/liberty-and-the-myth-of-venice/)

Engelsberg Ideas (https://engelsbergideas.com/) is funded by the Axel and ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1741932000" data-format="short_date">Mar 14, 2025</span></span>
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Spartacus, history’s nowhere man
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Richard Miles (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/richard-miles/) , historian and archaeologist, profiles Spartacus, a figure who floats between history and allegory. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

Spartacus, history’s nowhere man | Richard Miles (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/spartacus-historys-nowhere-man/)

Engelsberg Ideas (https://engelsbergideas.com/) is funded by the Axel a...
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The choice to enlarge NATO was a justifiable response to the geopolitics of the 1990s. The problem was how it happened.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1740732981" data-format="short_date">Feb 28, 2025</span></span>
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What makes Classical music special among the arts? And where did it come from?

To reckon with the inexhaustible complexity of the western musical tradition, its long history and the roots of its contemporary crises, EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) is joined by Richard Bratby (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/richard-bratby/) , the chief classical music ...
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Russia&#39;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was slowed down because of determined, courageous resistance. That success also owed much to Western intelligence on the nature of the Russian attack. External support will remain crucial to the success of the Ukrainian war effort.
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Non-western elites are redefining freedom on their own terms, as sovereignty, state security and stability. But the world becoming a lot less free should concern us all.
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The myth and magic of spy fiction
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Are we living through a golden age of espionage drama? And what do spy stories tell us about the true nature of the secret world?
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Citizens of the GDR were exposed to an idealised version of western freedoms made up of luxury shopping, blue jeans and cowboy flicks. Read by Helen Lloyd.
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After unpromising beginnings and innumerable controversies, Pittacus, seventh-century ruler of Mytilene on Lesbos, should be remembered as one of the great leaders of his age. Read by Sebastian Brown.
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocket man 
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The Russian recluse, a scientific self-starter who left school at 14, developed pioneering theories of space travel that anticipated the great feats of the Space Race fifty years later. Read by Sebastian Brown.

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Benjamin Constant’s considered response not only to the mass murder inflicted by the French Revolution, but to the attempt to reduce the whole French population to the condition of willing slaves under Bonaparte’s First Empire, provides a diagnosis of the character of many subsequent totalitarian regimes. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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Is the study of Latin in peril? And what does the future hold for the ancient inheritance? EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) is joined by Daisy Dunn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/daisy-dunn/) , classicist and author, Armand D’Angour (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/armand-dangour/) , Professor of Classics at Oxford University, and Paul Lay (https://...
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43m
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How 1970s California created the modern world 
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What happened in California in the 1970s played an outsized role in creating the world we live in today – both in the United States and in large parts of the globe – for better or worse. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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At a time of moral and political crisis, the medieval poet pioneered a daring and emotive vernacular style which inspired generations of Italian literature. Read by Sebastian Brown.

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While we may think we have moved beyond the censorship of the past, writers&#39; artistic freedoms are still constrained. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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Fredrik Logevall on the Vietnam War
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EI&#39;s Angus Reilly (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/angus-reilly/) discusses the history and legacy of the Vietnam War with Fredrik Logevall (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/jfks-abiding-legacy/) , author of Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam.

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Myths frame and tailor the past in a way that can ground and stabilise a community, however large or small. By situating them within the fabric of history, myths provide a sense of tradition and belonging to rally around. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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The emergence of Artificial Intelligence capable of deducing human intentions signals a new frontier in technology that could transform the world of strategy, diplomacy and warfare. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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