The EI Podcast
What happened to the politician’s moustache?
Writer Luka Ivan Jukic laments the all-but-total disappearance of facial hair from politic...
June 6, 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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The strange death of squalor
Journalist and author Jenny McCartney celebrates the magic of squalor, and explores how ge...
May 30, 2025
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Why Finns joined the fight
Geopolitical analyst Charly Salonius-Pasternak examines Finland's long journey to full mem...
May 23, 2025
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The West’s lust for liberty
The late Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations at the London School of E...
May 16, 2025
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Christianity and the creation of England
In this episode of The EI Podcast, the historian Bijan Omrani is joined by EI's Paul Lay t...
May 9, 2025
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How the liberation of France shaped the modern world
Agnès Poirier, journalist and broadcaster, examines how the liberation of France in 1944 o...
May 2, 2025
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China vs the WTO: The Inside Story
EI's Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are joined by Michael Sheridan, author of two books on Chi...
April 24, 2025
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Madame Bovary and the problem of desire
Marie Daouda, lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, show...
April 17, 2025
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Brendan Simms on the German key to European liberty
Germany today struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. Th...
April 11, 2025