Episode 43
EI Weekly Listen — Maurizio Viroli on the virtues of the city-state
The early modern Italian republics are often portrayed as models of bad government. But th...
September 24, 2021
EI Weekly
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Episode 41
EI Weekly Listen — Robin Lane Fox on nationalism in the classical world
Nationalism is often thought of as a modern development - but its traces can be found in a...
September 17, 2021
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Episode 40
EI Weekly Listen — Hew Strachan on the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic
The influenza pandemic behaved much like the conflict itself - picking out the young and f...
September 3, 2021
Episode 39
EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on why the West needs Plato more than eve
The Victorians saw Plato's Republic as an indispensable guide to reform of the public sphe...
August 27, 2021
Episode 38
EI Weekly Listen — Richard Whatmore on why revolutions are a disaster
Karl Marx was wrong about revolutions - in practice, they beget Caesars and Napoleons. Rea...
August 13, 2021
Episode 37
EI Weekly Listen — Alexander Lee on Machiavelli and civil strife
Niccolo Machiavelli, Renaissance statesman and political theorist, saw factional politics ...
August 20, 2021
Episode 36
EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Graham-Dixon on crisis and great art
Social upheaval has often been a catalyst for artistic change - the Renaissance was no exc...
August 6, 2021
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Episode 35
EI Weekly Listen — Tom Holland on the empty metropolis
Empty city London had its harbingers in literature and history. How will it emerge from it...
July 30, 2021
Episode 34
EI Weekly Listen — Donald Sassoon on a world of nations and states
Despite globalisation, the nation state retains its privileged position in world politics....
July 22, 2021