The EI Podcast
EI Weekly Listen — Remaking the moral case for capitalism
A defence of capitalism will have to rest first and foremost on an appeal to ethics, oblig...
September 1, 2023
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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Spoken history: the modern importance of indigenous cultures
Our information-rich civilisation is not superior or inferior to the pre-literate world of...
August 25, 2023
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EI Talks… Mick Jagger at 80
As the Rolling Stones frontman enters his ninth decade, EI asks whether there is a future ...
July 27, 2023
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EI Weekly Listen — What the Silicon Valley idealists got wrong
The internet and social media were supposed to democratise knowledge and unite the world. ...
July 21, 2023
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EI Talks… the future of tourism
Paul Lay and Alastair Benn discuss the explosion of tourism in the modern era and what mig...
July 21, 2023
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EI Weekly Listen — Wealth and poverty in Renaissance Florence by Antony Molho
This celebration of wealth, its frequent elevation to an almost religious level, and its j...
July 14, 2023
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EI Talks… anger
Paul Lay and Alastair Benn calmly discuss the uses and misuses of anger.
July 13, 2023
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EI Talks… Sully, Richelieu, Mazarin
Paul Lay and Iskander Rehman discuss masters of early modern statecraft: the Duke of Sully...
July 6, 2023
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EI Weekly Listen — Can warfare ever be considered modern?
Even with all its data and technology, contemporary conflict fits uneasily with our defini...
July 3, 2023