Episode 209
Katja Hoyer on how the GDR fell in love with the West
Citizens of the GDR were exposed to an idealised version of western freedoms made up of lu...
February 7, 2025
EI Weekly
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
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Episode 208
EI Weekly Listen — Merryn Somerset Webb on the power of shareholder democracy
The limited liability company remains the best vehicle for capitalistic endeavour. Read by...
January 31, 2025
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Episode 207
EI Weekly Listen — Sergey Radchenko on what drives Vladimir Putin
Putin’s justifications for invading Ukraine uncannily reflect the motivations of one of Ru...
January 24, 2025
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Episode 206
EI Weekly Listen — Jeremy Jennings on liberty in the shadow of Napoleon Bonaparte
Benjamin Constant’s considered response not only to the mass murder inflicted by the Frenc...
January 17, 2025
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Episode 205
EI Weekly Listen — Francis J. Gavin on how 1970s California created the modern world
What happened in California in the 1970s played an outsized role in creating the world we ...
January 10, 2025
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Episode 204
EI Weekly Listen — Alexander McCall Smith on the writer’s right to speak freely
While we may think we have moved beyond the censorship of the past, writers' artistic free...
December 20, 2024
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Episode 203
EI Weekly Listen — Kori Schake on the price of freedom
The arc of history only bends towards justice when people of goodwill grab hold of it and ...
December 13, 2024
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Episode 202
EI Weekly Listen — David Butterfield on Epicurus, Lucretius, and the myth of mythlessness
Myths frame and tailor the past in a way that can ground and stabilise a community, howeve...
December 6, 2024
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Episode 201
EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Braw on the importance of understanding the West’s adversaries
With deterrence and compellence becoming more crucial than they have been in over three de...
November 29, 2024