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Katja Hoyer on how the GDR fell in love with the West
Citizens of the GDR were exposed to an idealised version of western freedoms made up of lu...
February 7, 2025
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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Daisy Dunn on Pittacus, the good tyrant
After unpromising beginnings and innumerable controversies, Pittacus, seventh-century rule...
February 6, 2025
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EI Weekly Listen — Merryn Somerset Webb on the power of shareholder democracy
The limited liability company remains the best vehicle for capitalistic endeavour. Read by...
January 31, 2025
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EI Talks… the dawn of the post-literate society
Is the era of mass literacy over? And what might a post-literate society look like? EI's A...
January 30, 2025
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EI Weekly Listen — Sergey Radchenko on what drives Vladimir Putin
Putin’s justifications for invading Ukraine uncannily reflect the motivations of one of Ru...
January 24, 2025
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EI Portraits — Tim Marshall on Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocket man
The Russian recluse, a scientific self-starter who left school at 14, developed pioneering...
January 23, 2025
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EI Weekly Listen — Jeremy Jennings on liberty in the shadow of Napoleon Bonaparte
Benjamin Constant’s considered response not only to the mass murder inflicted by the Frenc...
January 17, 2025
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The case for Classics
Is the study of Latin in peril? And what does the future hold for the ancient inheritance?...
January 16, 2025
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EI Weekly Listen — Francis J. Gavin on how 1970s California created the modern world
What happened in California in the 1970s played an outsized role in creating the world we ...
January 10, 2025