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EI Weekly Listen — Katja Hoyer on East Germany's battle for technology
East Germany’s quest to catch up with the technological innovations of the West prompted some remarkable successes, but also expanded the oppression …
1 year, 6 months ago
EI Talks... how advertising consumed the counter-culture with Ian Leslie
EI's Alastair Benn sits down with Ian Leslie, author of Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together, to discuss…
1 year, 6 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Gudrun Persson on Russia’s forever war against Ukraine
An often-overlooked fact about the current Russo-Ukrainian War is that over the centuries Russia has waged several wars to try to conquer Crimea and …
1 year, 6 months ago
EI Portraits — Catherine Ostler on Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Electress of many talents
Catherine Ostler profiles Maria Antonia, Electress of Saxony, an artistic polymath who helped re-shape elite culture in the Enlightenment age. Read …
1 year, 6 months ago
EI Talks... Ronald Reagan's grand strategy with William Inboden
EI's Angus Reilly discusses how Ronald Reagan put economic openness at the heart of the battle for ideas against Soviet Communism with William Inbode…
1 year, 6 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Iskander Rehman on early modern information overload
The sense of being overwhelmed and constantly distracted is nothing new. Historians and policymakers should look to the 17th century for guidance on …
1 year, 6 months ago
EI Talks... marketing Classical music with Richard Bratby
EI's Alastair Benn discusses the condition of Classical music today with Richard Bratby, chief Classical music critic of The Spectator.
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1 year, 6 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Julian Jackson on De Gaulle’s world in motion
Part statesman, part prophet, Charles de Gaulle knew instinctively that political success and failure are inevitably interlinked, and that history wo…
1 year, 6 months ago
EI Talks... John Law and financial crises with Kwasi Kwarteng
EI's Iain Martin is joined by Kwasi Kwarteng, historian and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, to discuss the turbulent life of the 18th-century fin…
1 year, 6 months ago
EI Portraits — Laura Freeman on Helen Sutherland, brave cultivator of the beautiful
Laura Freeman profiles Helen Sutherland, an isolated, austere, and fastidious heiress who dedicated herself to art. Read by Sebastian Brown.
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1 year, 6 months ago