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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Autumn on the Seine by Claude Monet (1840-1926).
The New York Stock Exchange.
Map of Renaissance Florence.
Still from Stanley Kubrick's 1963 film Dr Strangelove.
People carry portraits of their relatives - soldiers of the Second World War - as they take part in the Immortal Regiment march in downtown Moscow.
Carl von Clausewitz.
Camille Paglia.
During a campaign trip Senator John F. Kennedy greets a roadside crowd in Indiana.
English propaganda poster from the First World War showing a column of soldiers and civilians marching to war.