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Worldview — The future of the museum
How does an institution in the business of preserving the past prepare itself for the interests and sensibilities of the future? Where do museums fit…
3 years ago
EI Weekly Listen — Learning from Asian philosophies of rebirth by Jessica Frazier
Asian literature, with its technologically-adept Chinese emperors, Animist Spirit-negotiators, and Yogic sages, shows us how to live well in troubled…
3 years ago
History Lessons — Sarah Bakewell on Humanism
In our latest episode of History Lessons, Mattias Hessérus is joined by author Sarah Bakewell to discuss her new book Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred…
3 years ago
Worldview — How to end a war
Where does war end and peace begin? And what role does diplomacy play in that transition?
In our latest episode of Worldview, host Adam Boulton is joi…
3 years ago
EI Weekly Listen — America’s return as the reluctant defender of the liberal order by Kori Schake
The US cultivated a garden that it grew weary of the burdens of sustaining but, once all other alternatives have been exhausted, the US will be pushe…
3 years ago
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 episod…
3 years 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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3 years, 1 month 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 …
3 years, 1 month 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 Leight…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month ago