The EI Podcast
Fantasy in Middle Eastern nation-making by Nathan Shachar
There is frequently no real reason why one person has more claim to live or even rule over...
January 5, 2022
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.
There is frequently no real reason why one person has more claim to live or even rule over...
January 5, 2022
The history of man is a story of mimicry and copying rather than innovation and ‘light-bul...
December 23, 2021
Voltaire predicted that religion would be defunct in fifty year's time. Karl Marx called i...
December 17, 2021
Studying the evolution of Austria in the 20th century offers deep insight into essential W...
October 10, 2021
The story of how, over the course of three generations, the royal dynasty of Wessex went f...
October 1, 2021
The early modern Italian republics are often portrayed as models of bad government. But th...
September 24, 2021
Nationalism is often thought of as a modern development - but its traces can be found in a...
September 17, 2021
The influenza pandemic behaved much like the conflict itself - picking out the young and f...
September 3, 2021
The Victorians saw Plato's Republic as an indispensable guide to reform of the public sphe...
August 27, 2021