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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, 10 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, 11 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 Francis…
2 years, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago
Worldview — the power of central banks
Central banks have held the financial world in their grip for much of the twentieth century, but is their reign coming to an end?
In this episode of W…
2 years, 11 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — How the individual invented the modern West by Larry Siedentop
The European Middle Ages have been deemed an era of regression but this couldn't be further from the truth. In this period, the foundations were laid…
3 years ago
Worldview — The Return of Applied History
How can the lessons of history be applied to the present? What are the benefits of taking the long view?
In this episode of Worldview, Adam Boulton i…
3 years ago
History Lessons — Katja Hoyer on East Germany
In our latest episode of History Lessons, Mattias Hessérus is joined by author, historian and journalist Katja Hoyer to discuss her new book Beyond t…
3 years ago
EI Weekly Listen — Bringing beauty back to the city by Anne Fairfax
Cities have been reduced to centres of soulless materialism and their citizens to non-stop consumers. If we hope to create beautiful surroundings, a …
3 years ago