Episode 170
EI Weekly Listen — Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood
What is a nation, what is its significance, and to what problems of life is its persistenc...
April 26, 2024
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
What is a nation, what is its significance, and to what problems of life is its persistenc...
April 26, 2024
The biggest division in modern society is between the meritocracy and the people, the cogn...
April 19, 2024
How did our ancestors think? Read by Leighton Pugh.
April 12, 2024
There is no linear, moral progress in knowledge and science. Read by Leighton Pugh.
April 5, 2024
The mistake many Western countries make is to take Russia largely at face value. Read by L...
March 29, 2024
The story of first millennium Europe is one of remarkable economic change and demographic ...
March 22, 2024
The Greeks invented the notion of the interrelationship of geography and politics; indeed,...
March 15, 2024
We equated a brief respite from history with the dawn of a new age. Read by Leighton Pugh.
March 8, 2024
Napoleonic geopolitics didn't make much impression on Europe's maps, but its influence was...
March 1, 2024