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EI Talks... AI
In the first episode of the Engelsberg Ideas editorial podcast, EI Talks..., Iain Martin, Paul Lay and Alastair Benn discuss Artificial Intelligence …
2 years, 7 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — The geopolitics and grand strategy of Alfred Thayer Mahan by John H. Maurer
Alfred Thayer Mahan's writings on naval warfare have overshadowed his contributions to geopolitics. His theories, however, are clearly playing out to…
2 years, 7 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — The cultural conversation of mankind by Christopher Coker
Isolationist thinking and exceptionalism is on the rise and our global culture is the poorer for it. Our civilisations thrive when in conversation wi…
2 years, 7 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Epic news by Jessica Frazier
What are myths for? More than entertainment alone, these epic tales helped the Ancients follow current affairs. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: Herita…
2 years, 8 months ago
Worldview — A Sacred Coronation for a Secular Nation
Adam Boulton is joined by Paul Lay, Senior Editor of Engelsberg Ideas, Agnès Poirier, journalist and author, and Royal biographer Hugo Vickers, to re…
2 years, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — The other side of the hill by Simon Mayall
In war, we are, like the Duke of Wellington, still trying to guess what is on the other side of the hill, we just have more tools to help us do so. R…
2 years, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — In search of Lebensraum by Richard Overy
Hitler's conviction that a new Eurasian order should be constructed with Germany at its zenith had its ideological roots in the early science of geop…
2 years, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — The crusader of goodwill by Janne Haaland Matláry
While no longer a state power, the Catholic Church remains a powerful political force in modern diplomacy. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: Pope Franc…
2 years, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Where does esotericism belong in modern academia? By Marco Pasi
Scholars of esotericism are often asked to justify their field of research and its place in modern society. However, esotericism provides fertile gro…
2 years, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Welcome to the fifth age of the city by Yolande Barnes
Changing technology, climate change, and transformations in global finance mean another new era for cities is dawning: the fifth, or digital, age. Re…
2 years, 9 months ago