Episode 143
EI Weekly Listen — Jonathan Fenby on the challenge for a totalitarian China
The need to buttress control is the bottom line for Xi. Read by Leighton Pugh.
October 13, 2023
EI Weekly
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
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Episode 142
EI Weekly Listen — Kjell Nordström on the future of capitalism
The proletarianisation of knowledge promises a bumpy ride for both us and capitalism as we...
October 6, 2023
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Episode 141
EI Weekly Listen — Maurizio Viroli on the city as a political order and urban space
A good political community can only live and flourish in cities that speak to the soul of ...
September 29, 2023
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Episode 140
EI Weekly Listen — Gudrun Persson on rewriting Russian history
In modern Russia, the past is being rewritten to suit Vladimir Putin's script. Read by Lei...
September 24, 2023
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Episode 139
EI Weekly Listen — Fraser Nelson on the Intellectual Dark Web
The intellectual dark web will, most likely, be a flicker in history, a reminder of when t...
September 15, 2023
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Episode 138
EI Weekly Listen — Christopher Coker on the changing meaning of patriotism in war
Dying to defend territory is an ancient human need - but war in the 21st century may not f...
September 8, 2023
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Episode 137
EI Weekly Listen — Remaking the moral case for capitalism
A defence of capitalism will have to rest first and foremost on an appeal to ethics, oblig...
September 1, 2023
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Episode 136
Spoken history: the modern importance of indigenous cultures
Our information-rich civilisation is not superior or inferior to the pre-literate world of...
August 25, 2023
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Episode 135
EI Weekly Listen — What the Silicon Valley idealists got wrong
The internet and social media were supposed to democratise knowledge and unite the world. ...
July 21, 2023