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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St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during the American Influenza epidemic. 1918. Credit: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

EI Weekly Listen — Alexander Lee on Machiavelli and civil strife

EI Weekly Listen — Richard Whatmore on why revolutions are a disaster

EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Graham-Dixon on crisis and great art

A street in London's central old town.

EI Weekly Listen — Donald Sassoon on a world of nations and states

EI Weekly Listen — Jonathan Fenby on China’s great uncoupling

German soldiers following a tank to Moscow in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa. Credit: Art Media / Print Collector / Getty Images.