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EI Weekly Listen — Lars Trägårdh on the origins of Swedish democracy
‘Democracy’ is in Sweden built on a basis fundamentally different from the one associated ...
May 24, 2024
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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EI Portraits — Jesse Ventura: the wrestling governor who blazed a trail for Trump
Dominic Sandbrook profiles Jesse Ventura, the former Navy SEAL and WWE champion who won Mi...
May 23, 2024
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EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on the future of the European Union
What is the future of the European Union? The EU is sui generis. It certainly cannot be a ...
May 17, 2024
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EI Talks… the age of upheaval
EI's Paul Lay and Alastair Benn ask: do we really live in an age of upheaval?
May 17, 2024
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EI Weekly Listen — Simon Mayall on the history of the modern Middle East
The current violence and turmoil in the Middle East is expressive of a conflict between ri...
May 10, 2024
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EI Portraits — Heinrich Biber: composer of rapture and ravings
James Hardie on the violinist-composer who mixed the sacred and profane in his fantastical...
May 9, 2024
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EI Weekly Listen — Lawrence James on the invention of jingoism
Jingoism was a natural offshoot of late Victorian imperialism. Read by Leighton Pugh.
May 3, 2024
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EI Talks… Caravaggio
A small but riveting exhibition at London's National Gallery tells the dramatic story of t...
May 2, 2024
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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