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EI Weekly Listen — Francis J. Gavin on the terrible dilemmas of leadership in a thermonuclear world
Nuclear weapons are likely to be around for a long time to come – and the predicaments they create for world leaders are unlikely to be easily solved…
1 year, 8 months ago
EI Talks... Paris in the Belle Époque with Marie Kawthar Daouda
Marie Kawthar Daouda, author and a lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, joins EI's Alastair Benn to discuss how B…
1 year, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — James Marriott on why human art matters in the age of AI
A world of machine art would be an eerie one. Art connects us to one another. We cannot, and we should not, replace that connection with an uncanny s…
1 year, 8 months ago
EI Portraits — Lawrence Freedman on John McDonald, poker-playing popularizer of game theory
Lawrence Freedman profiles the Fortune journalist and best-selling author who played a key role in shaping mid-20th century perceptions of strategy a…
1 year, 8 months ago
EI Talks... bringing history to the public with Alice Loxton
The historian and broadcaster Alice Loxton joins the EI team to discuss her forthcoming book, Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives, and h…
1 year, 8 months ago
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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 months ago