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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A typical late Victorian scene.
A portrait of Catherine the Great (1729-1796) by Alexey Antropov.
An illustration of artificial intelligence.
Niccolo Machiavelli statue in Florence, Italy
Tsiang Tingfu raises his arm to veto a proposal introduced by the Soviet Union to the UN.
President John F. Kennedy with Robert McNamara during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Jean Béraud's painting 'Paris, rue du Havre', c. 1882.
From left to right: Dorothy McDonald (wife of John, née Eisner), Leon Trotsky and John McDonald in Coyoacan, Mexico, in the 1930s. McDonald was recruited to help defend Trotsky from charges made at Stalin's show trials. Credit: General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
The Tribuna of the Uffizi by John Zoffany.

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