Episode 90
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
EI Weekly
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
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Episode 89
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
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
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Episode 87
Love as Religion by Simon May
Love has become widely seen as a democracy of salvation open to all. The reality is more c...
July 29, 2022
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Episode 86
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
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Episode 85
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
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Episode 82
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
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Episode 81
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
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Episode 79
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