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
EI Weekly
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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
Episode 33
EI Weekly Listen — Jonathan Fenby on China’s great uncoupling
Beijing wants to foster a world where Chinese standards replace those of the post-1945 US-...
July 9, 2021
Episode 31
EI Weekly Listen — David Seedhouse on Covid-19 and the moral case for personal judgement
The tension between independence and compliance is everywhere in society – but in medicine...
June 25, 2021
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Episode 30
EI Weekly Listen — Matthew Goodwin: Meet the Zoomer generation
This period of turbulence could turn today's twenty-somethings into the leaders of a new l...
June 18, 2021
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Episode 29
EI Weekly Listen – Tim Marshall: New Turkey’s old politics
As a result of President Erdogan's embrace of two interlinked geopolitical concepts, 'Stra...
June 11, 2021