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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Electricity pylon. Credit: David Leadbitter / Alamy Stock Photo
Mock-up of the air defense system around Moscow, in the Patriot Park In Moscow Region, Russia
A painting of the Dutch envoy Adriaan Pauw entering Münster around 1646 for the peace negotiations, painted by Gerard ter Borch. Credit: Wikipedia Commons/Stadtmuseum Münster
A retro circuit board with germanium transistors and diodes, electrolytic and ceramic capacitors, carbon resistors, aluminium coils. Credit: KPixMining / Alamy Stock Photo.
Image: The Bank of England during the UK's second COVID lockdown. Credit: Jeff Gilbert / Alamy Stock Photo.
An American map of the West Coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Cape Palmas, 'including the colony of Liberia'.
Print of ancient Carthage. Credit: Wiki Creative Commons
British Prime Minister Tony Blair greets an ethnic Albanian by holding up his hand in central Pristina, Yugoslavia during a one-day visit Saturday July 31, 1999. It was Blair's first visit to Kosovo since NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. (Photo by David Brauchli)
First World War Commanders looking at a battle plan. Painting by Francois Flameng (1856-1923), 1916. Army Museum, Paris.