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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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Helen Thompson: Geopolitics of a pandemic
The Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. Credit: Getty Images.
LOS ANGELES - JUNE 11: The movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", written and directed by John Hughes. Seen here from left, Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson, Alan Ruck as Cameron Frye and Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller. Initial theatrical release June 11, 1986. Screen capture. Paramount Pictures. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)
Iskander Rehman: Why applied history matters
Great Plague London
Thomas Cole / Public Domain
Peter Frankopan: This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic
The GCHQ building in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Credit: David Goddard / Getty Images.
German soldiers march through France early in the war. Credit: Popperfoto via Getty Images.

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