Episode 225
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
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
Historian Damian Valdez reflects on the meaning of 1975, a fateful year for the internatio...
June 20, 2025
Writer Luka Ivan Jukic laments the all-but-total disappearance of facial hair from politic...
June 6, 2025
Journalist and author Jenny McCartney celebrates the magic of squalor, and explores how ge...
May 30, 2025
Geopolitical analyst Charly Salonius-Pasternak examines Finland's long journey to full mem...
May 23, 2025
The late Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations at the London School of E...
May 16, 2025
Agnès Poirier, journalist and broadcaster, examines how the liberation of France in 1944 o...
May 2, 2025
Marie Daouda, lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, show...
April 17, 2025
Germany today struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. Th...
April 11, 2025
Ukrainians are better placed than their Western partners to decode the Russian negotiating...
April 4, 2025