EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 229
Why liberal democracies win total wars
Journalist Duncan Weldon reveals how liberal capitalist economies adapt to total war. Read…
August 1, 2025
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 69
No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century
EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Andrew Lambert to discuss his book ‘No More Napoleons: How B…
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 228
The rift that doomed the Confederacy
Historian Katherine Bayford exposes the fractures and contradictions that doomed the Confe…
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 68
The Trial at 100: revisiting Kafka’s prophetic masterpiece
This year marks the centenary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial – a sem…
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 227
How the Knights Templars conquered Christendom
Historian Nicholas Morton explores how a miracle of marketing brought the Knights Templars…
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 226
The lost art of chorography
The writer Josh Mcloughlin reflects on the art of chorography, one of English literature’s…
June 27, 2025
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