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Worldview — People power: dealing with demography
Is demography destiny? Shifting patterns in population have marked history, drive political change and sharpen cultural divides.
In our latest epis…
2 years, 10 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — The City of God: on Augustine’s vision of Empire by Gillian Clark
Augustine’s seminal book was written in the context of the Roman Empire, but it remains ever-relevant. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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2 years, 10 months ago
Worldview — The risks and the rewards of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the worlds of art, manufacturing, medicine, even the language we use, at a bewildering speed. Should we …
2 years, 10 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Geopolitics never went away for the United States by Andrew Preston
For the United States, geopolitics has always been about national identity, even in an era of globalisation. Perhaps it always will be.
Read by Leig…
2 years, 10 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — On Civility by Erica Benner
Navigating politico-religious disagreements in a spirit of civility is nigh-on impossible in eras in which the meaning of civility itself is conteste…
2 years, 10 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Information war does not exist by Peter Pomerantsev
In the Cold War the Kremlin tried to convince foreign audiences its disinformation campaigns were real, today the aim seems to be different. Read by …
2 years, 11 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — The ancient roots of the modern holy war by Tom Holland
The crusades, jihad, and wars in defence of intangible ideals all have their origins in a short-lived conflict in the 6th century BC. Read by Leighto…
2 years, 11 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — From the Silk Road to the information superhighway by Peter Frankopan
Globalisation may appear to be a cornerstone of modernity but humans have always both craved and feared connection, be it social, commercial, spiritu…
2 years, 11 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Finding Garibaldi by Lucy Riall
Garibaldi’s retreat to his home in Caprera spawned a liberal-nationalist ideal of statesmanship that would live long in the European imagination. Rea…
2 years, 11 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — What did it mean to belong to the Holy Roman Empire? by Peter Wilson
The Holy Roman Empire was neither a nation state nor indeed a conventional empire. Instead, its inhabitants were unified through a web of legal right…
3 years ago