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Ali Ansari on the secret to Cyrus the Great’s success
Few ancient monarchs have enjoyed such a consistent positive reputation as Cyrus the Great. Perhaps it’s time to become reacquainted. Read by Helen L…
1 year, 9 months ago
Andrew Wilton on Amanda McKittrick Ros, the Florence Foster Jenkins of the romantic novel
Andrew Wilton profiles Amanda McKittrick Ros, a late Victorian novelist admired in her day but now largely forgotten. Read by Sebastian Brown.
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1 year, 9 months ago
Lucy Ward on the invention of Catherine the Great
Catherine II’s inoculation against smallpox was an extraordinary act of political self-creation. Read by Helen Lloyd.
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1 year, 9 months ago
The atomic human with Neil D. Lawrence
Neil D. Lawrence, inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge and author of The Atomic Human: Understanding Ours…
1 year, 9 months ago
Alexander Lee on why Machiavelli wrote The Prince
If we want to understand the ‘meaning’ of The Prince, we should start with Machiavelli himself. Read by Helen Lloyd.
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1 year, 9 months ago
Rana Mitter on Tsiang Tingfu, pre-revolutionary China’s last bridge with the West
Rana Mitter profiles Tsiang Tingfu, the American-educated diplomat and historian, who sought Chinese national revival on cosmopolitan lines. Read by…
1 year, 10 months ago
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, 10 months ago
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, 10 months ago
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, 10 months ago
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, 10 months ago