Episode 73
EI Weekly Listen — The long peace and nuclear deterrence by Lawrence Freedman
For the past sixty years, the use of nuclear weapons has become unthinkable. But with ever...
May 27, 2022
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Episode 72
EI Weekly Listen — Variety in Judaism by Martin Goodman
In a religious system which presupposed a covenant not just between God and the individual...
May 20, 2022
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Episode 71
EI Weekly Listen — America’s problem with unconventional warfare by Frederick Kagan
For more than thirty years, the US has sought to avoid deploying ground forces into protra...
May 13, 2022
Episode 70
EI Weekly Listen — Suffering, the price of being alive: an Islamic perspective by Mona Siddiqui
Islam — unlike Christianity — may not have a central motif of pain, sin and suffering, but...
May 6, 2022
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Episode 68
EI Weekly Listen — Reassessing Christian history by Diarmaid Macculloch
While Christianity may strive to sing in a single voice, no one modern denomination ought ...
April 29, 2022
Episode 67
EI Weekly Listen — The gods in love by Jessica Frazier
The Hindu tradition of Radha and Krishna calls us to see passion as the kernel of all reli...
April 22, 2022
Episode 66
EI Weekly Listen — The story of the Jesuits: how the Society of Jesus charted the world by M.Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J
As Jesuit missionaries spread further across the globe, the order’s founder wanted to ensu...
April 14, 2022
Episode 65
EI Weekly Listen — The Portuguese: Pioneers of globalisation by Roger Crowley
Portugal’s commercial dominance of large swathes of the world lasted little more than a ce...
April 8, 2022
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Episode 64
EI Weekly Listen — Elements of seapower, past and present by Lincoln Paine
Sea power derives from resources, a direct interest in sea-based trade, and pressure exert...
April 1, 2022