Episode 186
EI Weekly Listen — Ali Ansari on the secret to Cyrus the Great’s success
Few ancient monarchs have enjoyed such a consistent positive reputation as Cyrus the Great...
August 16, 2024
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Episode 185
EI Weekly Listen — Lucy Ward on the invention of Catherine the Great
Catherine II’s inoculation against smallpox was an extraordinary act of political self-cre...
August 9, 2024
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Episode 184
EI Weekly Listen — Alexander Lee on why Machiavelli wrote The Prince
If we want to understand the ‘meaning’ of The Prince, we should start with Machiavelli him...
August 2, 2024
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Episode 183
EI Weekly Listen — Francis J. Gavin on the terrible dilemmas of leadership in a thermonuclear world
Nuclear weapons are likely to be around for a long time to come – and the predicaments the...
July 26, 2024
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Episode 182
EI Weekly Listen — James Marriott on why human art matters in the age of AI
A world of machine art would be an eerie one. Art connects us to one another. We cannot, a...
July 19, 2024
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Episode 181
EI Weekly Listen — Katja Hoyer on East Germany’s battle for technology
East Germany’s quest to catch up with the technological innovations of the West prompted s...
July 12, 2024
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Episode 180
EI Weekly Listen — Gudrun Persson on Russia’s forever war against Ukraine
An often-overlooked fact about the current Russo-Ukrainian War is that over the centuries ...
July 5, 2024
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Episode 179
EI Weekly Listen — Iskander Rehman on early modern information overload
The sense of being overwhelmed and constantly distracted is nothing new. Historians and po...
June 28, 2024
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Episode 178
EI Weekly Listen — Julian Jackson on De Gaulle’s world in motion
Part statesman, part prophet, Charles de Gaulle knew instinctively that political success ...
June 21, 2024