The EI Podcast
Sergey Radchenko on what drives Vladimir Putin
Putin’s justifications for invading Ukraine uncannily reflect the motivations of one of Ru...
January 24, 2025
The EI Podcast
The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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Tim Marshall on Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocket man
The Russian recluse, a scientific self-starter who left school at 14, developed pioneering...
January 23, 2025
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Liberty in the shadow of Napoleon Bonaparte
Benjamin Constant’s considered response not only to the mass murder inflicted by the Frenc...
January 17, 2025
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The case for Classics
Is the study of Latin in peril? And what does the future hold for the ancient inheritance?...
January 16, 2025
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How 1970s California created the modern world
What happened in California in the 1970s played an outsized role in creating the world we ...
January 10, 2025
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EI Portraits — Alexander Lee on Guittone d’Arezzo, Dante’s forgotten muse
At a time of moral and political crisis, the medieval poet pioneered a daring and emotive ...
January 10, 2025
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The writer’s right to speak freely
While we may think we have moved beyond the censorship of the past, writers' artistic free...
December 20, 2024
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Fredrik Logevall on the Vietnam War
EI's Angus Reilly discusses the history and legacy of the Vietnam War with Fredrik Logeval...
December 19, 2024
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Kori Schake on the price of freedom
The arc of history only bends towards justice when people of goodwill grab hold of it and ...
December 13, 2024