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EI Weekly Listen — Maurizio Viroli on the virtues of the city-state
The early modern Italian republics are often portrayed as models of bad government. But th...
September 24, 2021
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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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Worldview — what is the future of the West?
Iain Martin is joined by leading security and international relations experts to discuss t...
September 17, 2021
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EI Weekly Listen — Robin Lane Fox on nationalism in the classical world
Nationalism is often thought of as a modern development - but its traces can be found in a...
September 17, 2021
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EI Weekly Listen — Hew Strachan on the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic
The influenza pandemic behaved much like the conflict itself - picking out the young and f...
September 3, 2021
EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on why the West needs Plato more than eve
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EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on why the West needs Plato more than eve
The Victorians saw Plato's Republic as an indispensable guide to reform of the public sphe...
August 27, 2021
EI Weekly Listen — Alexander Lee on Machiavelli and civil strife
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EI Weekly Listen — Alexander Lee on Machiavelli and civil strife
Niccolo Machiavelli, Renaissance statesman and political theorist, saw factional politics ...
August 20, 2021
EI Weekly Listen — Richard Whatmore on why revolutions are a disaster
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EI Weekly Listen — Richard Whatmore on why revolutions are a disaster
Karl Marx was wrong about revolutions - in practice, they beget Caesars and Napoleons. Rea...
August 13, 2021
EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Graham-Dixon on crisis and great art
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EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Graham-Dixon on crisis and great art
Social upheaval has often been a catalyst for artistic change - the Renaissance was no exc...
August 6, 2021
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EI Weekly Listen — Tom Holland on the empty metropolis
Empty city London had its harbingers in literature and history. How will it emerge from it...
July 30, 2021