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
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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
Episode 82
EI Weekly Listen — Modern France and the ghosts of the past by Peter Ricketts
France, like all countries, is haunted by events and mistakes of times past. These ghosts ...
July 8, 2022
Episode 81
EI Weekly Listen — Lawrence of Arabia on war: How the past haunts the present
The Lawrence legend continues to win new devotees while his pragmatic contribution to warf...
July 1, 2022
Episode 79
EI Weekly Listen — The importance of the individual in history by Vernon Bogdanor
Throughout the ages, oracles, journalists and political scientists have attempted to guess...
June 24, 2022
Episode 78
EI Weekly Listen — Geopolitics, geoeconomics and Russian revisionism by Mikael Wigell
Traditional geopolitical solutions (accommodation or military containment) are unlikely to...
June 17, 2022
Episode 75
EI Weekly Listen — Containing and deterring Russia: can Europe act strategically? By Janne Haaland Matláry
The condemnation of the annexation of the Crimea was unified and strong, but the sanctions...
June 1, 2022
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Episode 73
EI Weekly Listen — The long peace and nuclear deterrence by Lawrence Freedman
For the past sixty years, the use of nuclear weapons has become unthinkable. But with ever...
May 27, 2022
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Episode 72
EI Weekly Listen — Variety in Judaism by Martin Goodman
In a religious system which presupposed a covenant not just between God and the individual...
May 20, 2022