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Was the revolution that created the United States of America inevitable? The life of Joseph Galloway shows what might have been. Read by Sebastian Brown.

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Over the last decade, NATO has embarked on a significant process of military and political adaptation to ensure it can effectively enable the collective defence of allies in a competitive, contested and unpredictable world. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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EI&#39;s Paul Lay and Alastair Benn discuss an attention dilemma that has haunted western thought for centuries.

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Our attention dilemma is age-old | Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/our-attention-dilemma-is-age-old/)

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium | Seneca (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius)

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Through his visionary leadership, inspired rhetoric, and willingness to compromise, John F. Kennedy summoned the narrative of American hope, his most powerful and enduring legacy. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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One of the few leaders on whom history has bestowed the title ‘the Great’, Akbar was a noted connoisseur of cultures and architect of political pluralism. Read by Sebastian Brown.

Image: Akbar the Great hunting. Mughal Scool, 1590. British Museum. Artist Unknown. Credit: CM Dixon/Heritage Images/Getty Images
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Like it or not, Japan has become one of the most critical actors in contemporary international politics. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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Michael Sheridan (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/michael-sheridan/) , author of The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China, joins EI&#39;s Angus Reilly (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/angus-reilly/) to discuss the personal and ideological roots of one of the world&#39;s most powerful, and inscrutable, leaders.

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Foundation myths based on the lives of heroic figures are often used by leaders to affirm their own authority — but they can also inspire wider society. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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Having witnessed first-hand the mechanised onslaught of the Great War, Captain Basil Liddell Hart sought a philosophy of warfare based on the prudent use of technology, psychology and deception – and the avoidance of the &#39;total war&#39; catastrophes of preceding decades. Read by Sebastian Brown.

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The US must adopt a grand strategy of democratic expansion. Only then can global security be established. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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EI&#39;s Alastair Benn speaks to Rachel Cockerell (https://www.rachelcockerell.co.uk/) , author of Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land, a history of the quest for a Jewish homeland at the turn of the 19th century and beyond, weaving memoir, documentary, and literature.

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The tumultuous relationship between Red China and the Soviet Union hints at an uncertain future for the Sino-Russian partnership. Read by Helen Lloyd.

Image: Sino-Soviet propaganda poster. Credit: Album / Alamy Stock Photo
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EI Portraits — Agnès Poirier on Anna de Noailles, bright star of the Belle Époque
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Socialite and literary pioneer - Anna de Noailles was a bright star in the firmament of the Parisian Belle Époque. Read by Sebastian Brown.

Image: De László&#39;s portrait of Anna de Noailles. Credit: Svintage Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
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EI Weekly Listen — Munira Mirza on how the British elite lost its way
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Stagnation at home and turmoil abroad demand a radical rethink of how – and why – Britain forges its future leaders. Read by Helen Lloyd.

Image: The Treasury building in Whitehall, London. Credit: mauritius images GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo
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EI Talks... what the Romans found funny with Orlando Gibbs
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EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) sits down with Orlando Gibbs (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/orlando-gibbs/) to discuss what the Romans found funny, what we might find not so funny about ancient humour, and whether there is something universal about the comedic genre.

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EI Weekly Listen — Ali Ansari on the secret to Cyrus the Great’s success 
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Few ancient monarchs have enjoyed such a consistent positive reputation as Cyrus the Great. Perhaps it’s time to become reacquainted. Read by Helen Lloyd.

Image: The Tomb of Cyrus, Iran. Photograph taken in 1898. Credit: Penta Springs Limited / Alamy Stock Photo
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EI Portraits — Andrew Wilton on Amanda McKittrick Ros, the Florence Foster Jenkins of the romantic novel
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Andrew Wilton (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/andrew-wilton/) profiles Amanda McKittrick Ros (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/amanda-mckittrick-ros-romance-unbounded/) , a late Victorian novelist admired in her day but now largely forgotten. Read by Sebastian Brown.

Image: A typical late Victorian scene. Credit: Dave Rheaume / Alamy Stock Photo
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EI Weekly Listen — Lucy Ward on the invention of Catherine the Great
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Catherine II’s inoculation against smallpox was an extraordinary act of political self-creation. Read by Helen Lloyd.

Image: A portrait of Catherine the Great (1729-1796) by Alexey Antropov. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
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EI Talks... the atomic human with Neil D. Lawrence
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Neil D. Lawrence (https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/ndl21) , inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge and author of The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI, (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455130/the-atomic-human-by-lawrence-neil-d/9780241625248) joins the EI team to challenge received wisdom on our AI future.

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EI Weekly Listen — Alexander Lee on why Machiavelli wrote The Prince 
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If we want to understand the ‘meaning’ of The Prince, we should start with Machiavelli himself. Read by Helen Lloyd.

Image: A statue of Niccolo Machiavelli in Florence, Italy. Credit: Goran Bogicevic / Alamy Stock Photo
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EI Portraits — Rana Mitter on Tsiang Tingfu, pre-revolutionary China’s last bridge with the West 
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Rana Mitter (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/rana-mitter/) profiles Tsiang Tingfu (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/tsiang-tingfu-pre-revolutionary-chinas-last-bridge-with-the-west/) , the American-educated diplomat and historian, who sought Chinese national revival on cosmopolitan lines. Read by Sebastian Brown.

Image: Tsiang Tingfu raises his arm to veto a proposal introduced by the ...
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EI Weekly Listen — Francis J. Gavin on the terrible dilemmas of leadership in a thermonuclear world
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Nuclear weapons are likely to be around for a long time to come – and the predicaments they create for world leaders are unlikely to be easily solved. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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Marie Kawthar Daouda (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/marie-daouda/) , author and a lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, joins EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) to discuss how Belle Époque-era Paris continues to fascinate, with its burgeoning commercial culture, everyday beauty and glittering department stores.

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A world of machine art would be an eerie one. Art connects us to one another. We cannot, and we should not, replace that connection with an uncanny simulacrum of it. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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Lawrence Freedman profiles the Fortune journalist and best-selling author who played a key role in shaping mid-20th century perceptions of strategy and the role of the corporation. Read by Sebastian Brown.

Image: From left to right: Dorothy McDonald (wife of John, née Eisner), Leon Trotsky and John McDonald in Coyoacan, Mexico, in the 1930s. McDonald was recruited to help defend Trotsky from c...
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The historian and broadcaster Alice Loxton joins the EI team to discuss her forthcoming book, Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives (https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/alice-loxton/eighteen/9781035031283) , and her fight to bring serious history to a wider public.

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EI Weekly Listen — Katja Hoyer on East Germany&#39;s battle for technology
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East Germany’s quest to catch up with the technological innovations of the West prompted some remarkable successes, but also expanded the oppression of its mass surveillance apparatus. Read by Helen Lloyd.

Image: The Trabant car being manufactured at the East German Sachsenring car plant. Credit: Classic Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo
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EI Talks... how advertising consumed the counter-culture with Ian Leslie
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EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) sits down with Ian Leslie (https://www.ian-leslie.com/) , author of Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together (https://ian-leslie.com/conflicted/) , to discuss how the counterculture went mainstream.

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An often-overlooked fact about the current Russo-Ukrainian War is that over the centuries Russia has waged several wars to try to conquer Crimea and the Donbas area. Read by Helen Lloyd.

Image: Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum cum vicinis Walachiae, Moldoviae, by Johann Baptiste Homann (1664–1724), 1720. Credit: history_docu_photo / Alamy Stock Photo
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Catherine Ostler (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/catherine-ostler/) profiles Maria Antonia (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/maria-antonia-of-bavaria-electress-of-many-talents/) , Electress of Saxony, an artistic polymath who helped re-shape elite culture in the Enlightenment age. Read by Sebastian Brown.

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EI&#39;s Angus Reilly (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/angus-reilly/) discusses how Ronald Reagan put economic openness at the heart of the battle for ideas against Soviet Communism with William Inboden, author of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink.

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EI Weekly Listen — Iskander Rehman on early modern information overload
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The sense of being overwhelmed and constantly distracted is nothing new. Historians and policymakers should look to the 17th century for guidance on how to grapple with information overload. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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EI Talks... marketing Classical music with Richard Bratby
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EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) discusses the condition of Classical music today with Richard Bratby (https://richardbratby.co.uk/) , chief Classical music critic of The Spectator.

Image: Music scores. Credit: Tim Gainey / Alamy Stock Photo
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EI Weekly Listen — Julian Jackson on De Gaulle’s world in motion
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Part statesman, part prophet, Charles de Gaulle knew instinctively that political success and failure are inevitably interlinked, and that history would be the ultimate judge of both. Read by Helen Lloyd.

Image: The President of France Charles de Gaulle marches through the streets under the Arc de Triomphe in 1944. Credit: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo
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EI Talks... John Law and financial crises with Kwasi Kwarteng
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EI&#39;s Iain Martin (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/iain-martin/) is joined by Kwasi Kwarteng, historian and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, to discuss the turbulent life of the 18th-century financial speculator John Law, whose innovative ideas were credited with bringing Ancien Régime France to the brink of ruin. There are echoes of what happened when the Truss government tried its own fi...
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EI Portraits — Laura Freeman on Helen Sutherland, brave cultivator of the beautiful
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Laura Freeman (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/laura-freeman/) profiles Helen Sutherland (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/helen-sutherland-brave-cultivator-of-the-beautiful/) , an isolated, austere, and fastidious heiress who dedicated herself to art. Read by Sebastian Brown.

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Celebrated as predestined shepherd in the glory days of Angela Merkel, Germany in the 2020s is an uncertain giant who has defied expectations, good or bad. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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EI Talks... women of the ancient world with Daisy Dunn
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The leading classicist Daisy Dunn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/daisy-dunn/) joins EI&#39;s Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) to discuss her new book, The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It.

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We cannot afford not to rediscover the fine art, nowadays almost forgotten, of learning from history. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: 16th Century engraving by Theodoor Galle, titled The Printing of Books. Credit: The Granger Collection / Alamy Stock Photo
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James Barr (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/james-barr/) profiles the debonair and open-faced diplomat, George McGhee (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/george-mcghee-american-father-to-britains-suez-crisis/) , whose shuttle diplomacy helped accelerate Britain&#39;s decline as a player in the Middle East. Read by Sebastian Brown.

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A new constitutional order is coming. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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Erica Benner (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/erica-benner/) applies ancient wisdom to modern problems in her new book Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453228/adventures-in-democracy-by-benner-erica/9780241609750) . She shares her insights with EI&#39;s Deputy Editor, Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) .
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EI Weekly Listen — Lars Trägårdh on the origins of Swedish democracy
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‘Democracy’ is in Sweden built on a basis fundamentally different from the one associated with the development of liberal democracy in the West. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1716460031" data-format="short_date">May 23, 2024</span></span>
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Image: European Union flags. Credit: Brian Lawrence / Alamy Stock Photo
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A small but riveting exhibition at London&#39;s National Gallery tells the dramatic story of the troubled Renaissance master&#39;s &#39;last&#39; painting.

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