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EI Talks... the history of democracy with Erica Benner
Erica Benner applies ancient wisdom to modern problems in her new book Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power. She shares her …
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Lars Trägårdh on the origins of Swedish democracy
‘Democracy’ is in Sweden built on a basis fundamentally different from the one associated with the development of liberal democracy in the West. Read…
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Portraits — Dominic Sandbrook on Jesse Ventura, the wrestling governor who blazed a trail for Trump
Dominic Sandbrook profiles Jesse Ventura, the former Navy SEAL and WWE champion who won Minnesota’s governorship in 1999 on an anti-elite ticket. Hi…
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on the future of the European Union
What is the future of the European Union? The EU is sui generis. It certainly cannot be a nation state. Nor is it destined to turn into a Staatsnatio…
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Talks... the age of upheaval
EI's Paul Lay and Alastair Benn ask: do we really live in an age of upheaval?
Image: Turner's Vesuvius in Eruption. Credit: Artefact / Alamy Stock Pho…
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Simon Mayall on the history of the modern Middle East
The current violence and turmoil in the Middle East is expressive of a conflict between rival ideas, between the modern nation state and an old, hist…
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Portraits — James Hardie on Heinrich Biber, composer of rapture and ravings
James Hardie on the violinist-composer who mixed the sacred and profane in his fantastical music, a lost genius of the 17th century. Read by Sebasti…
1 year, 10 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Lawrence James on the invention of jingoism
Jingoism was a natural offshoot of late Victorian imperialism. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: Poster for a British imperial railway company. Credit: Pi…
1 year, 11 months ago
EI Talks... Caravaggio
A small but riveting exhibition at London's National Gallery tells the dramatic story of the troubled Renaissance master's 'last' painting.
Image: The…
1 year, 11 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood
What is a nation, what is its significance, and to what problems of life is its persistence a response? Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: Lucas Cranach's …
1 year, 11 months ago