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The strange case of Robert Louis Stevenson
Alastair Benn is joined by Leo Damrosch, author of Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, to explore the life and legacy of the celebrated…
1 day ago
The instability of a multipolar era
EI's Paul Lay is joined by Helen Thompson to discuss US–China rivalry, the growing importance of the Western Hemisphere in geopolitics, and the inher…
1 week, 4 days ago
Nicholas Wright on why the brain is the ultimate weapon of war
EI's Paul Lay is joined by neuroscientist Nicholas Wright to discuss how the brain shapes war, and how war shapes the brain.
Image: The brain as a w…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The end of Pax Britannica
Graeme Thompson on the fall of a liberal world order. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: 'Taming the British Lion'. Puck magazine, 1888. Credit: Histori…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The classical key to the AI revolution
John Tasioulas examines how a classical conception of democracy – distinct from liberal democracy – may offer the resources needed to meet the chall…
1 month ago
The Risorgimento myth
Gerald Warner on the origins of a 'black legend' designed to discredit the once-flourishing Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Read by Leighton Pu…
1 month, 1 week ago
Dan Wang on China's quest to engineer the future
EI's Paul Lay is joined by technology analyst Dan Wang to discuss how China has engineered its way to global power status.
Image: New high-rise bui…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The double agent who introduced Japan to the West
Bill Emmott profiles Lafcadio Hearn, the Anglo-Irish-Greek foreign correspondent who made Japan his home. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: Lafcadio He…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Andrew Ross Sorkin on lessons from the Wall Street Crash
Bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses his new book, 1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History, with EI's Iain Mar…
2 months ago
1821 and the invention of world order
Historian Damian Valdez on international order's 19th-century origins. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: Mexican general Agustín de Iturbide rides throu…
2 months, 1 week ago