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EI Talks... AI and education with Daisy Christodoulou
Daisy Christodoulou punctures the hype around the applications of Large language models (LLMs) and chatbots to the field of learning. Will AI really…
2 years ago
EI Weekly Listen — Barry Strauss on Ancient Greek geopolitics
The Greeks invented the notion of the interrelationship of geography and politics; indeed, they elaborated it in myriad ways. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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2 years ago
EI Portraits — Jenny McCartney on Jean Denis, Comte Lanjuinais, fearless opponent of The Terror
Jenny McCartney on Comte Lanjuinais, who risked his life by defying the Jacobins. Read by Sebastian Brown.
Image: Comte Lanjuinais speaks at a febri…
2 years ago
EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on the end of 'the end of history'
We equated a brief respite from history with the dawn of a new age. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Credit: Agencja Fotograficz…
2 years ago
EI Talks... Werner Herzog with Geoff Andrew and Muriel Zagha
Geoff Andrew, the BFI's programmer-at-large, and film critic Muriel Zagha sit down with EI's Deputy Editor Alastair Benn to discuss the varied, visi…
2 years ago
EI Weekly Listen — Michael Broers on how Napoleon built a continent
Napoleonic geopolitics didn't make much impression on Europe's maps, but its influence was wide-ranging. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Napoleonic Europe: how…
2 years, 1 month ago
EI Portraits — Aspasia of Miletus: queen of the Athenian salon
Armand D'Angour on Aspasia of Miletus, wife of Pericles and friend to philosophers. Read by Sebastian Brown.
Image: 19th Century lithograph of Aspasi…
2 years, 1 month ago
EI Weekly Listen — Norman Stone on the 1860s
In the 1860s, commentators might have been justified in forecasting 'the end of history' and lauding universal progress. History was to return with a…
2 years, 1 month ago
Worldview — Ukraine, two years on
Two years on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a solution, military or diplomatic, seems as far away as ever.
On Worldview, leading historians and c…
2 years, 1 month ago
EI Weekly Listen — David Frum on how empire-states are changing the game
From the Engelsberg Ideas Archive. States are back and they're out to challenge the international order.
Image: Vladimir Putin captured from screen. C…
2 years, 1 month ago