Episode 50
EI Weekly Listen — You are not as clever as you think by Mark Pagel
The history of man is a story of mimicry and copying rather than innovation and ‘light-bul...
December 23, 2021
EI Weekly
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Episode 49
EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on the return of religion
Voltaire predicted that religion would be defunct in fifty year's time. Karl Marx called i...
December 17, 2021
Episode 46
EI Weekly Listen — Martina Winkelhofer-Thyri on whether Austria is a nation, state or an empire
Studying the evolution of Austria in the 20th century offers deep insight into essential W...
October 10, 2021
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Episode 44
EI Weekly Listen — Tom Holland on Æthelstan and the forging of a United Kingdom of England
The story of how, over the course of three generations, the royal dynasty of Wessex went f...
October 1, 2021
Episode 43
EI Weekly Listen — Maurizio Viroli on the virtues of the city-state
The early modern Italian republics are often portrayed as models of bad government. But th...
September 24, 2021
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Episode 41
EI Weekly Listen — Robin Lane Fox on nationalism in the classical world
Nationalism is often thought of as a modern development - but its traces can be found in a...
September 17, 2021
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Episode 40
EI Weekly Listen — Hew Strachan on the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic
The influenza pandemic behaved much like the conflict itself - picking out the young and f...
September 3, 2021
Episode 39
EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on why the West needs Plato more than eve
The Victorians saw Plato's Republic as an indispensable guide to reform of the public sphe...
August 27, 2021
Episode 37
EI Weekly Listen — Alexander Lee on Machiavelli and civil strife
Niccolo Machiavelli, Renaissance statesman and political theorist, saw factional politics ...
August 20, 2021