Episode 207
EI Weekly Listen — Sergey Radchenko on what drives Vladimir Putin
Putin’s justifications for invading Ukraine uncannily reflect the motivations of one of Ru...
January 24, 2025
EI Weekly
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
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Episode 206
EI Weekly Listen — Jeremy Jennings on liberty in the shadow of Napoleon Bonaparte
Benjamin Constant’s considered response not only to the mass murder inflicted by the Frenc...
January 17, 2025
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Episode 205
EI Weekly Listen — Francis J. Gavin on how 1970s California created the modern world
What happened in California in the 1970s played an outsized role in creating the world we ...
January 10, 2025
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Episode 204
EI Weekly Listen — Alexander McCall Smith on the writer’s right to speak freely
While we may think we have moved beyond the censorship of the past, writers' artistic free...
December 20, 2024
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Episode 203
EI Weekly Listen — Kori Schake on the price of freedom
The arc of history only bends towards justice when people of goodwill grab hold of it and ...
December 13, 2024
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Episode 202
EI Weekly Listen — David Butterfield on Epicurus, Lucretius, and the myth of mythlessness
Myths frame and tailor the past in a way that can ground and stabilise a community, howeve...
December 6, 2024
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Episode 201
EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Braw on the importance of understanding the West’s adversaries
With deterrence and compellence becoming more crucial than they have been in over three de...
November 29, 2024
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Episode 200
EI Weekly Listen — Henrik Meinander on Gustaf Mannerheim, leader of a free Finland
Gustaf Mannerheim's rise from a troubled youth to Finland's great wartime leader illustrat...
November 22, 2024
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Episode 199
EI Weekly Listen — Rory Medcalf on the Australian way of war and peace
Australia stands at the forefront of democratic resistance against China's expanding influ...
November 15, 2024