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Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts

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  • Engelsberg Ideas podcasts bring together leading writers, thinkers and historians to discuss the biggest issues facing the world today. You’ll find calm conversations and thought-provoking analysis.
    Copyright 2020. Engelsberg Ideas - All Rights Reserved.
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  • EI Weekly Listen — Lars Trägårdh on the origins of Swedish democracy

    EI Weekly Listen — Lars Trägårdh on the origins of Swedish democracy
    May 24 2024
    ‘Democracy’ is in Sweden built on a basis fundamentally different from the one associated with the development of liberal democracy in the West. Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: Midsummer Dance by Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920) painted in 1897. A classic of Swedish art history showing traditional folk dancing in the Dalarna countryside in the extended summer evening light. Credit: Universal Art Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
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    35 mins
  • EI Portraits — Jesse Ventura: the wrestling governor who blazed a trail for Trump

    EI Portraits — Jesse Ventura: the wrestling governor who blazed a trail for Trump
    May 23 2024
    Dominic Sandbrook profiles Jesse Ventura, the former Navy SEAL and WWE champion who won Minnesota’s governorship in 1999 on an anti-elite ticket. His transition from showbiz to politics was a precursor of the age of Trump – but ’the Body’ was no ordinary populist. Read by Sebastian Brown.

    Image: Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura yells to the crowd at his People's Inauguration in Minneapolis. Credit: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo
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    15 mins
  • EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on the future of the European Union

    EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on the future of the European Union
    May 17 2024
    What is the future of the European Union? The EU is sui generis. It certainly cannot be a nation state. Nor is it destined to turn into a Staatsnation or willed nation. Then what? Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: European Union flags. Credit: Brian Lawrence / Alamy Stock Photo
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    18 mins
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