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Engelsberg Ideas 430 - Napoleon’s nest of vipers

The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations with leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn, Jack Dickens and Paul Lay. Produced by Max Mitchell.

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Napoleon’s nest of vipers

Russia’s war on Ukrainian science

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Reinventing Disraeli

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The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey

How wine made the modern world

The struggle for Saudi Arabia’s buried past

The diplomats who defeated Hitler

The political power of knowing your enemy

The return of the Great Powers

Germany’s new old nuclear dilemma

250 years of the American experiment

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Christianity’s debt to Rome

Jean Eustache: the outsider who reshaped French cinema

How to end a war

Testament to doomed media

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Len Deighton’s spycraft

China's bid for economic supremacy

A Jewish-American dream

Muslims and Jews' shared inheritance

Finding Turkey in Narnia

The life and legacy of Steve Schapiro

Agent Zo, the spy who saved Poland

Lewis and Clark’s American Odyssey

Why powerful individuals are dominating politics

Weimar’s descent into darkness

The civilising wonders of wine

Can Europe thrive in a multipolar world?

The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials

Universities are at crisis point

The anatomy of the spy novel

The roots of the West’s identity crisis

Iran’s strange Scottish obsession

Washington’s return to Latin America

The Houthis’ forever war

Can epic poetry revive History?

The need for muscular liberalism

The first butterfly collectors

Trump’s imperial worldview

The strange death of private life

The Gulf’s Iran dilemma

The rise of the mega-influencer