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EI Weekly Listen — The polymath in the age of specialisation by Peter Burke
Crises of knowledge precipitate drives towards specialisation. In our digital age we still...
September 30, 2022
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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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EI Weekly Listen — Authority without knowledge by Erica Benner
The worst form of ignorance in politics is an inflated opinion of one’s own wisdom. In mat...
September 23, 2022
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EI Weekly Listen — Geopolitics and the Mongol Empire by Morris Rossabi
Political and economic concerns were as critical as environmental and geographic factors i...
September 16, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Fairy Tales of Statehood: the politics of sacred land and divine-kings by Jessica Frazier
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EI Weekly Listen — Fairy Tales of Statehood: the politics of sacred land and divine-kings by Jessica Frazier
You can read the essay featured in this Weekly Listen here.
September 9, 2022
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EI Weekly Listen — Why war again? by Lilia Shevtsova
As hostilities with Russia increase, we must again ask ourselves what drives human beings ...
September 2, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Jihadist Media Strategies by Elisabeth Kendall
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EI Weekly Listen — Jihadist Media Strategies by Elisabeth Kendall
While the Islamic State’s savvy media presence may have overshadowed that of al-Qaeda over...
August 26, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — The Joint Intelligence Committee: Reading the Russian mindset by Michael Goodman
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EI Weekly Listen — The Joint Intelligence Committee: Reading the Russian mindset by Michael Goodman
During the Cold War, the British Joint Intelligence Committee was charged with forecasting...
August 19, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Democracy in crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens by Erica Benner
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EI Weekly Listen — Democracy in crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens by Erica Benner
Demagogues thrive if moderate politicians flatter citizens into an unrealistic sense of th...
August 12, 2022
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EI Weekly Listen — Tribal bias from the wild to the laboratory by Cory J Clark
It is not just politics that is beset by tribalism. The social sciences are also vulnerabl...
August 5, 2022