The EI Podcast
The case for Classics
Is the study of Latin in peril? And what does the future hold for the ancient inheritance?...
January 16, 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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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
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EI Portraits — Paul Lay on Thomas Gage, a man of unintended consequences
His intense faith led Thomas Gage to switch his religious allegiance during the tumultuous...
December 12, 2024
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David Butterfield on Epicurus, Lucretius, and the myth of mythlessness
Myths frame and tailor the past in a way that can ground and stabilise a community, howeve...
December 6, 2024
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The problem with VAR
Alastair Benn discusses how technology is transforming the world of sport with Daisy Chris...
December 5, 2024