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EI Weekly Listen — Graham Stewart on Margaret Thatcher’s rescue from historical cliché
To argue that Margaret Thatcher attacked the post-war dream is to caricature, not illumina...
June 4, 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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EI Weekly Listen – Mark Honigsbaum: Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics
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EI Weekly Listen – Mark Honigsbaum: Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics
Thucydides saw plague as an opportunity to improve the health of society. But history show...
May 28, 2021
EI Weekly Listen — Clive Aslet: The changing fate of the English country house
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EI Weekly Listen — Clive Aslet: The changing fate of the English country house
Amid the tumult of the 1970s, it appeared the traditional country house had gone into irre...
May 20, 2021
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Worldview — Can meritocracy be rescued and repaired?
Iain Martin is joined by Adrian Wooldridge and Daniel Markovits to discuss the crisis of o...
May 14, 2021
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EI Weekly Listen – Helen Thompson: Geopolitics of a pandemic
The Covid-19 crisis has accentuated all the geopolitical fault lines of the past decade. R...
May 6, 2021
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EI Weekly Listen – Philip Bobbitt: A government of laws
The constitutional order is changing as citizens become alienated and demand more say. Ame...
April 30, 2021
EI Weekly Listen – Johan Hakelius: John Hughes and the making and unmaking of the American Dream
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EI Weekly Listen – Johan Hakelius: John Hughes and the making and unmaking of the American Dream
The films of John Hughes updated the American Dream for a new generation, and his complex ...
April 13, 2021
EI Weekly Listen – Iskander Rehman: Why applied history matters
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EI Weekly Listen – Iskander Rehman: Why applied history matters
Forget the seduction of grand theories and presentist moral judgments. To learn the lesson...
April 8, 2021
EI Weekly Listen – Vanessa Harding: Remembering London’s last Great Plague
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EI Weekly Listen – Vanessa Harding: Remembering London’s last Great Plague
London's response to its last plague epidemic involved close collaboration between crown, ...
April 3, 2021