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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1890 engraving of Philippa Fawcett, the first female Senior Wrangler.
Woodrow Wilson delivering a Christmas address to soldiers of the A.E.F. Langres, Haute Marne, France, December 1918.
The US and Chinese flags on stacked containers.
A photograph of nuclear testing at Pacific Island test sites.
An illustration of Joseph Galloway by Thomas Emmett, 1885. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
NATO flag waving in the wind.
Detail from Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903.
Senator John F. Kennedy at Hyannis Port.
Akbar the Great hunting. Mughal Scool, 1590. British Museum. Artist Unknown.

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