Episode 95
EI Weekly Listen — Authority without knowledge by Erica Benner
The worst form of ignorance in politics is an inflated opinion of one’s own wisdom. In mat...
September 23, 2022
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Episode 94
EI Weekly Listen — Geopolitics and the Mongol Empire by Morris Rossabi
Political and economic concerns were as critical as environmental and geographic factors i...
September 16, 2022
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Episode 93
EI Weekly Listen — Fairy Tales of Statehood: the politics of sacred land and divine-kings by Jessica Frazier
You can read the essay featured in this Weekly Listen here.
September 9, 2022
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Episode 92
EI Weekly Listen — Why war again? by Lilia Shevtsova
As hostilities with Russia increase, we must again ask ourselves what drives human beings ...
September 2, 2022
Episode 91
EI Weekly Listen — Jihadist Media Strategies by Elisabeth Kendall
While the Islamic State’s savvy media presence may have overshadowed that of al-Qaeda over...
August 26, 2022
Episode 90
EI Weekly Listen — The Joint Intelligence Committee: Reading the Russian mindset by Michael Goodman
During the Cold War, the British Joint Intelligence Committee was charged with forecasting...
August 19, 2022
Episode 89
EI Weekly Listen — Democracy in crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens by Erica Benner
Demagogues thrive if moderate politicians flatter citizens into an unrealistic sense of th...
August 12, 2022
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Episode 87
EI Weekly Listen — Tribal bias from the wild to the laboratory by Cory J Clark
It is not just politics that is beset by tribalism. The social sciences are also vulnerabl...
August 5, 2022