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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Walter Sickert's Easter Monday.
During the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940) skiers of the Finnish army in white camouflage made lightning and effective attacks on units of the Red Army.
Leonidas at Thermopylae, by Jacques-Louis David, 1814.
South View of Salisbury Cathedral, JMW Turner.
Parisians gather around the Arc de Triomphe as Allied forces liberate the city. Credit: RBM Vintage Images / Alamy Stock Photo.
An electronics recycling facility in Shanghai, China.
Isabelle Huppert, Madame Bovary 1991. Credit: Collection Christophel / Alamy Stock Photo
CONGRESS OF VIENNA (1814-1815) Napoleon watching the Tsar, the Emperor of Austria and King of Prussia dividing up Europe
Donald Trump poses for photos above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after taking his Trump Plaza Casino public in New York on June 7, 1995.

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