Episode 131
EI Weekly Listen — War and statehood
Warfare made the early modern state. Read by Leighton Pugh.
June 26, 2023
EI Weekly
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
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Episode 130
EI Weekly Listen — Clashing histories and present-day tensions in East Asia
As China ramps up its military spending, the government in Beijing plays up its role in th...
June 19, 2023
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Episode 129
EI Weekly Listen — Do we know the truth about the Thirty Years’ War?
Different perspectives and eye-witness accounts reveal historical fallacies and myths abou...
June 8, 2023
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Episode 128
EI Weekly Listen — Each Charter’d Street: Taking the long view on urban planning
For as long as there have been cities they have attracted admiration and fear. Read by Lei...
June 2, 2023
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Episode 127
EI Weekly Listen — The geopolitics and grand strategy of Alfred Thayer Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan's writings on naval warfare have overshadowed his contributions to geo...
May 25, 2023
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Episode 126
EI Weekly Listen — The cultural conversation of mankind
Isolationist thinking and exceptionalism is on the rise and our global culture is the poor...
May 19, 2023
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Episode 125
EI Weekly Listen — Epic news
What are myths for? More than entertainment alone, these epic tales helped the Ancients fo...
May 12, 2023
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Episode 124
EI Weekly Listen — The other side of the hill
In war, we are, like the Duke of Wellington, still trying to guess what is on the other si...
May 5, 2023
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Episode 123
EI Weekly Listen — In Search of Lebensraum
Hitler's conviction that a new Eurasian order should be constructed with Germany at its ze...
April 28, 2023