EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 219
Madame Bovary and the problem of desire
Marie Daouda, lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, show…
April 17, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 218
Brendan Simms on the German key to European liberty
Germany today struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. Th…
April 11, 2025
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 64
The making of Trump’s worldview
What are the deep roots of Trump’s worldview? Can we learn to read Trump’s behaviour? And …
April 10, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 217
Iuliia Osmolovska on how Russia negotiates
Ukrainians are better placed than their Western partners to decode the Russian negotiating…
April 4, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 216
Juliet Samuel on liberty under attack
Just as generations did before us, we are learning that a belief in liberty is not self-ev…
March 28, 2025
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 63
The uses of comedy
What makes us laugh? And why should it matter? EI’s Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are join…
March 27, 2025
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