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
Episode 86
EI Weekly Listen — The Gospel of Thomas: casting a new light on Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels
While there may have been striking similarities between the Gospel of Thomas and those of ...
July 22, 2022
Episode 85
EI Weekly Listen — Why 16 billion cortical neurons are not enough by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Humanity has come quite some way in the past 200,000 years but are we really anything more...
July 13, 2022
Episode 82
EI Weekly Listen — Modern France and the ghosts of the past by Peter Ricketts
France, like all countries, is haunted by events and mistakes of times past. These ghosts ...
July 8, 2022
Episode 81
EI Weekly Listen — Lawrence of Arabia on war: How the past haunts the present
The Lawrence legend continues to win new devotees while his pragmatic contribution to warf...
July 1, 2022
Episode 79
EI Weekly Listen — The importance of the individual in history by Vernon Bogdanor
Throughout the ages, oracles, journalists and political scientists have attempted to guess...
June 24, 2022
Episode 78
EI Weekly Listen — Geopolitics, geoeconomics and Russian revisionism by Mikael Wigell
Traditional geopolitical solutions (accommodation or military containment) are unlikely to...
June 17, 2022