Episode 93
EI Weekly Listen — Fairy Tales of Statehood: the politics of sacred land and divine-kings by Jessica Frazier
You can read the essay featured in this Weekly Listen here.
September 9, 2022
EI Weekly
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
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Episode 92
EI Weekly Listen — Why war again? by Lilia Shevtsova
As hostilities with Russia increase, we must again ask ourselves what drives human beings ...
September 2, 2022
Episode 91
EI Weekly Listen — Jihadist Media Strategies by Elisabeth Kendall
While the Islamic State’s savvy media presence may have overshadowed that of al-Qaeda over...
August 26, 2022
Episode 90
EI Weekly Listen — The Joint Intelligence Committee: Reading the Russian mindset by Michael Goodman
During the Cold War, the British Joint Intelligence Committee was charged with forecasting...
August 19, 2022
Episode 89
EI Weekly Listen — Democracy in crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens by Erica Benner
Demagogues thrive if moderate politicians flatter citizens into an unrealistic sense of th...
August 12, 2022
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Episode 87
EI Weekly Listen — Tribal bias from the wild to the laboratory by Cory J Clark
It is not just politics that is beset by tribalism. The social sciences are also vulnerabl...
August 5, 2022
Episode 86
EI Weekly Listen — The Gospel of Thomas: casting a new light on Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels
While there may have been striking similarities between the Gospel of Thomas and those of ...
July 22, 2022
Episode 85
EI Weekly Listen — Why 16 billion cortical neurons are not enough by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Humanity has come quite some way in the past 200,000 years but are we really anything more...
July 13, 2022