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 K-3 Leninsky Komsomol, the first Soviet nuclear submarine, undergoes repairs before being transported to the Museum of Naval Glory in Kronshtadt via the White SeaBaltic Canal. Credit: Lev FedoseyevTASS via Getty Images
A Yemeni man gestures at the site of an air strike in the capital Sanaa, on November 5, 2017. Yemen's rebel-held capital was struck by overnight air raids that continued well into the next day, targeting the defence ministry and a popular public square, an official said. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)
saro mud men from Goroka walk to the annual sing-sing cultural festival in Mount Hagen in 2004. Over 70 tribes put aside their ethnic tensions to come together once a year in the remote frontier town to celebrate the cultural diversity of Papua New Guinea. Credit: TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP via Getty Images

EI Weekly Listen — the fake history of civilisational states by Christopher Coker

EI Weekly Listen — the flag wars are here to stay by Tim Marshall

Soviet propaganda at the Cold War museum in Plokstine, Lithuania. Credit: Franz Aberham via Getty Images.

EI Weekly Listen — Roman geopolitics, an exercise in myth-making by Richard Miles

EI Weekly Listen — How US policy failure post-9/11 undermined international order by Emma Sky

EI Weekly Listen — Uruk and the origins of the sacred economy by Daniel T. Potts