Larry Siedentop's guest appearances

Larry Siedentop

Confessions with Giles Fraser - UnHerd

Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts

Jonathan Haidt

Elif Shafak

Helena Kennedy

Andrew Doyle

Patrick Deneen

Melanie Phillips

Yoram Hazony

Roger Scruton

Yotam Ottolenghi

Wendell Berry

Andrew Sullivan

Michael Ignatieff

Jonathan Rowson

Peter Hitchens

Richard Coles

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The European Middle Ages have been deemed an era of regression but this couldn't be further from the truth. In this period, the foundations were laid to establish a liberal West centred around the rights of the individual. Read by Leighton Pugh.  Image: Construction of highway, eighteenth century France Engineers on horseback inspecting the work, a painting Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1775. Credit: Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts / Alamy Stock Photo.

The European Middle Ages have been deemed an era of regression but this couldn't be further from the truth. In this period, the foundations were laid to establish a liberal West centred around the rights of the individual. Read by Leighton Pugh.<br/> <br/> <em>Image: Construction of highway, eighteenth century France Engineers on horseback inspecting the work, a painting Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1775. Credit: Lebrecht Music &amp; Arts / Alamy Stock Photo.</em>

EI Weekly Listen — How the individual invented the modern West by Larry Siedentop

Giles talks with Sir Larry Siedentop, Oxford philosopher and author of 'Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism', about being taught by Isaiah Berlin, how Brexit is going to federalise the UK and why liberalism isn't dead yet.

Larry Siedentop's Confessions – Liberalism, localism and populism