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The joy of suffering by Candida Moss
The crucifixion lodged suffering at the heart of Christianity: to suffer was to be like Christ. This reframing of suffering had far-reaching conseque…
3 years, 6 months ago
Worldview — The nuclear threat today
There are currently around 13,000 nuclear warheads worldwide, with Russia possessing the largest nuclear arsenal.
And yet, nuclear weapons have not b…
3 years, 6 months ago
Worldview — The nuclear threat today
There are currently around 13,000 nuclear warheads worldwide, with Russia possessing the largest nuclear arsenal.
And yet, nuclear weapons have not…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Revolt of the European Masses: the disintegration of accountability in supra-national politics by Janne Haaland Matlary
With forces such as identity politics and supra-national bodies gaining traction across Europe, the concept of the nation state has never been more i…
3 years, 6 months ago
Worldview — the global struggle for microchip supremacy
When the pioneers of computer engineering created the first integrated circuits in the 1950s they could not have envisaged how this technology would …
3 years, 6 months ago
Worldview — The global struggle for microchip supremacy
When the pioneers of computer engineering created the first integrated circuits in the 1950s they could not have envisaged how this technology would …
3 years, 6 months ago
History Lessons — Edward Chancellor on interest rates and the Price of Time
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On the latest episode of History Lessons, Mattias Hessérus is in conversation with author Edward Chancellor discussing the history of interest rates.…
3 years, 6 months ago
Rethinking geopolitics by Jeremy Black
Geography and politics are closely intertwined, although that no more means that all geography is political than that all politics is geographical. R…
3 years, 6 months ago
Why the idea of Carthage survived Roman conquest by Richard Miles
The Romans burnt Carthage’s books and buildings – but ‘Punic’ identity remained influential throughout Antiquity. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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3 years, 7 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — The end of history ends by Walter Russell Mead
The era in world history that began with the fall of the Soviet Union is drawing to its close. The post-Cold War Eurasian settlement that the United …
3 years, 7 months ago