Episodios

  • Madame Bovary and the problem of desire

    Madame Bovary and the problem of desire
    Apr 17 2025
    Marie Daouda, lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, shows how the pursuit of apparently 'real' 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

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: Isabelle Huppert, Madame Bovary 1991. Credit: Collection Christophel / Alamy Stock Photo
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    18 m
  • Brendan Simms on the German key to European liberty

    Brendan Simms on the German key to European liberty
    Apr 11 2025
    Germany today struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. That should trouble keen observers of Europe's history. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: The Congress of Vienna (1814-1815). Napoleon watching the Tsar, the Emperor of Austria and King of Prussia dividing up Europe. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy
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    16 m
  • Iuliia Osmolovska on how Russia negotiates

    Iuliia Osmolovska on how Russia negotiates
    Apr 4 2025
    Ukrainians are better placed than their Western partners to decode the Russian negotiating style. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: Street art in Tbilisi of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin playing chess. Credit: Georg Berg / Alamy Stock Photo
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    34 m
  • Juliet Samuel on liberty under attack

    Juliet Samuel on liberty under attack
    Mar 28 2025
    Just as generations did before us, we are learning that a belief in liberty is not self-evident and its expansion is not inevitable. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: Second world war propaganda poster. Credit: Photo 12 / Alamy Stock Photo
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    20 m
  • Roel Sterckx on gazing back to see China’s future

    Roel Sterckx on gazing back to see China’s future
    Mar 21 2025
    We must study the centuries-long history that has forged the DNA of Chinese political thinking and make it part of our conversations about China today. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: The Great Wall of China. Credit: nagelestock.com / Alamy Stock Photo
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    18 m
  • Alexander Lee on the myth of Venice

    Alexander Lee on the myth of Venice
    Mar 21 2025
    Liberty was central to the idea of Venice, but was remarkably fragile. The republic had to guard it fiercely and expound it as a tangible way of living for flawed human beings. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: Procession in Piazza San Marco by Gentile Bellini, 1496. Credit: Peter Barritt / Alamy Stock Photo
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    22 m
  • EI Weekly Listen — Richard Miles on Spartacus, history’s nowhere man

    EI Weekly Listen — Richard Miles on Spartacus, history’s nowhere man
    Mar 7 2025
    Spartacus is a figure who floats between history and allegory. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: Promotional poster for the film, Spartacus. 1960. Credit: Allstar Picture Library Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
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    20 m
  • Mary Elise Sarotte on how a Second Cold War could have been averted

    Mary Elise Sarotte on how a Second Cold War could have been averted
    Feb 28 2025
    The choice to enlarge NATO was a justifiable response to the geopolitics of the 1990s. The problem was how it happened. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: The 'You are leaving The American Sector' sign at the Checkpoint Charlie crossing point, Berlin Wall. Credit: Greg Balfour Evans / Alamy Stock Photo
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    21 m
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