The EI Podcast
Why do we get the wrong leaders?
James Vitali reflects on the profound importance of political judgement. Read by Leighton ...
August 8, 2025
The EI Podcast
The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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The EI Podcast
Why liberal democracies win total wars
Journalist Duncan Weldon reveals how liberal capitalist economies adapt to total war. Read...
August 1, 2025
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No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century
EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Andrew Lambert to discuss his book ‘No More Napoleons: How B...
July 25, 2025
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The rift that doomed the Confederacy
Historian Katherine Bayford exposes the fractures and contradictions that doomed the Confe...
July 18, 2025
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The Trial at 100: revisiting Kafka’s prophetic masterpiece
This year marks the centenary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial - a sem...
July 11, 2025
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How the Knights Templars conquered Christendom
Historian Nicholas Morton explores how a miracle of marketing brought the Knights Templars...
July 4, 2025
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The lost art of chorography
The writer Josh Mcloughlin reflects on the art of chorography, one of English literature’s...
June 27, 2025
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1975, the year that made the modern world
Historian Damian Valdez reflects on the meaning of 1975, a fateful year for the internatio...
June 20, 2025
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How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin fought Hitler – and each other
EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Tim Bouverie to discuss ‘Allies at War’, his gripping new bo...
June 13, 2025