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 cartoon of John Law (1671–1729), the Scottish economist who was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under King Louis XV.
Woman Playing a Piano, by Winifred Nicholson. Her work was championed by Helen Sutherland.
The top of the Reichstag Building.
Nikolaos Gyzis, a 19th Century painter, depicts Sappho playing the lyre.
16th Century engraving by Theodoor Galle, titled The Printing of Books.
President John F. Kennedy (left, in rocking chair) meets the newly-appointed US Ambassador to West Germany, George McGhee.
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
Gathering of the Areopagus, a deliberative court that met in the open air in ancient Athens.
Midsummer Dance by Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920) painted in 1897. A classic of Swedish art history showing traditional folk dancing in the Dalarna countryside in the extended summer evening light.

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