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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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Detail of the fresco by Ambrogio Lorenzetti of 'Good Government' in the Sala della Pace in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena.
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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
Cave of Plato, Jan Saenredam, Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, 1604.
Cicero Denounces Catiline, an 1888 painting by Italian artist Cesare Maccari.
Eric Clapton, John Lennon (1940 - 1980) and Keith Richards performing together at the Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus, Internel Studios in Stonebridge Park, Wembley, December 1968.
Lamentation for the Dead Christ. Fresco by the artist Giotto (1267-1337).
A street in London's central old town.
Athletes with flags from all nations make their way into the stadium as part of the 2012 London Olympic Summer Games. Credit: AMA/Corbis via Getty Images

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