EI Weekly

A series of audio essays featuring our writers.

Pope Francis with his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, in 2018. Credit: Massimo Wallichia / Getty Images.
The Flammarion Wood engraving. The image is often used as a metaphorical illustration of either the scientific or the mystical quests for knowledge.
Ecological skyscraper in Milan.
Construction of highway, eighteenth century France Engineers on horseback inspecting the work, a painting Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1775. Credit: Lebrecht Music & Arts / Alamy Stock Photo.
The Vessel at Hudson Yards, New York City. Credit: robertharding / Alamy Stock Photo.
Ma Yuan's The Yellow River Breaches its Course, from a series of paintings of water
'Young America rescues Europe!', declares a French cartoon from 1918. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo.
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The Marine Corps War Memorial, also known as Iwo Jima Memorial.