Episode 56
Uruk and the origins of the sacred economy by Daniel T. Potts
Peering into the hearts and minds those living four thousand years ago is an impossible ta...
February 4, 2022
EI Weekly
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
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Episode 53
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy revisited by Niall Ferguson
The second half of the last century was defined by the struggle between socialist and capi...
January 28, 2022
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Episode 53
Cool war by Noah Feldman
While the US remains the sole reigning super power, the rise of China adds complexity to t...
January 21, 2022
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Episode 52
Russia and geopolitics by Anna-Lena Laurén
As the largest country in the world, Russia's might past and present has an inherent link ...
January 14, 2022
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Episode 52
Fantasy in Middle Eastern nation-making by Nathan Shachar
There is frequently no real reason why one person has more claim to live or even rule over...
January 5, 2022
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Episode 50
You are not as clever as you think by Mark Pagel
The history of man is a story of mimicry and copying rather than innovation and ‘light-bul...
December 23, 2021
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Episode 49
Adrian Wooldridge on the return of religion
Voltaire predicted that religion would be defunct in fifty year's time. Karl Marx called i...
December 17, 2021
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Episode 46
Martina Winkelhofer-Thyri on whether Austria is a nation, state or an empire
Studying the evolution of Austria in the 20th century offers deep insight into essential W...
October 10, 2021
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Episode 44
Tom Holland on Æthelstan and the forging of a United Kingdom of England
The story of how, over the course of three generations, the royal dynasty of Wessex went f...
October 1, 2021