EI Weekly Listen

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  • Weekly audio essays from leading experts. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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Art Literary History & Criticism Political Science World
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Episodes
  • Jeremy Jennings on liberty in the shadow of Bonaparte

    Jeremy Jennings on liberty in the shadow of Bonaparte
    Jan 17 2025
    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.

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

    Image: Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine were crowned Emperor and Empress of France on 2 December 1804. Credit: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
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    19 mins
  • Francis J. Gavin on how 1970s California created the modern world

    Francis J. Gavin on how 1970s California created the modern world
    Jan 10 2025
    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.

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

    Image: 1970s commercial airline advert. Credit: ClassicStock / Alamy Stock Photo
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    22 mins
  • Alexander McCall Smith on the writer's right to speak freely

    Alexander McCall Smith on the writer's right to speak freely
    Dec 20 2024
    While we may think we have moved beyond the censorship of the past, writers' artistic freedoms are still constrained. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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

    Image: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial. Credit: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo.
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    18 mins

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