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EI Weekly Listen — David Goodhart on bridging the value divide
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Finding a new settlement between the Anywheres and the Somewheres is now the central task of modern politics. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1697817474" data-format="short_date">Oct 20, 2023</span></span>
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EI Talks... The Iliad
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A new translation of the Iliad is an opportunity to reassess the first great work of European literature.

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EI Weekly Listen — Jonathan Fenby on the challenge for a totalitarian China
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The need to buttress control is the bottom line for Xi.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1697229722" data-format="short_date">Oct 13, 2023</span></span>
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EI Talks... Israel’s harrowing week and the consequences for the Middle East
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Paul Lay and Alastair Benn are joined by Suzanne Raine, national security and counter-terrorism expert, and Michael Goldfarb, author and broadcaster, to discuss Hamas&#39; terrorist outrage and the uncertain future that follows for the region.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1697212602" data-format="short_date">Oct 13, 2023</span></span>
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The proletarianisation of knowledge promises a bumpy ride for both us and capitalism as we know it. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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EI Talks... Autumn
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Paul Lay and Alastair Benn discuss the idea of Autumn, a season peculiarly rich in cultural resonances.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1696626366" data-format="short_date">Oct 06, 2023</span></span>
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EI Weekly Listen — Maurizio Viroli on the city as a political order and urban space
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A good political community can only live and flourish in cities that speak to the soul of the citizens and inspire the love of order. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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EI Talks... the problems and perils of nuclear strategy
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Paul Lay is joined by Francis J. Gavin, Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, to discuss nuclear statecraft past and present.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1695988838" data-format="short_date">Sep 29, 2023</span></span>
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EI Weekly Listen — Gudrun Persson on rewriting Russian history
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In modern Russia, the past is being rewritten to suit Vladimir Putin&#39;s script. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1695397305" data-format="short_date">Sep 22, 2023</span></span>
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EI Talks... Clausewitz
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Paul Lay is joined by the historian Sir Hew Strachan to discuss On War, the military theorist Carl von Clausewitz&#39;s seminal text, and the indispensable guide to the conduct and practice of war.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1695388460" data-format="short_date">Sep 22, 2023</span></span>
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EI Weekly Listen — Fraser Nelson on the Intellectual Dark Web
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The intellectual dark web will, most likely, be a flicker in history, a reminder of when the West’s conversation was at its most shrill, and when free-thinking people had to look to underground clubs for a place to air their thoughts. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1694762922" data-format="short_date">Sep 15, 2023</span></span>
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1694690494" data-format="short_date">Sep 14, 2023</span></span>
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1694189614" data-format="short_date">Sep 08, 2023</span></span>
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1694173118" data-format="short_date">Sep 08, 2023</span></span>
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1693579096" data-format="short_date">Sep 01, 2023</span></span>
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1691754981" data-format="short_date">Aug 11, 2023</span></span>
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1689861321" data-format="short_date">Jul 20, 2023</span></span>
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EI Weekly Listen — Wealth and poverty in Renaissance Florence by Antony Molho
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This celebration of wealth, its frequent elevation to an almost religious level, and its justification not only in terms of its social utility but also, and more remarkably, in personal terms, is one of the defining characteristics of the Florentine public culture and private ethos in the fifteenth century and beyond. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1689343512" data-format="short_date">Jul 14, 2023</span></span>
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EI Talks... anger
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Paul Lay and Alastair Benn calmly discuss the uses and misuses of anger.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1689243693" data-format="short_date">Jul 13, 2023</span></span>
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EI Weekly Listen — The public realm and the language of architecture by John Simpson
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We must rescue our cities from a culture of ugliness. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1688661825" data-format="short_date">Jul 06, 2023</span></span>
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EI Talks... Sully, Richelieu, Mazarin
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Paul Lay and Iskander Rehman discuss masters of early modern statecraft: the Duke of Sully, Cardinal Richelieu, and Cardinal Mazarin.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1688653478" data-format="short_date">Jul 06, 2023</span></span>
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Can warfare ever be considered modern? By Rob Johnson
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Even with all its data and technology, contemporary conflict fits uneasily with our definitions of modernity. Read by Leighton Pugh

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1688135656" data-format="short_date">Jun 30, 2023</span></span>
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EI Talks... AI and the threat to the arts
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Paul Lay and Alastair Benn are joined by Times columnist James Marriott to discuss whether Artificial Intelligence poses an existential threat to the arts.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1688032016" data-format="short_date">Jun 29, 2023</span></span>
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EI Weekly Listen — War and statehood by Philip Bobbitt
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Warfare made the early modern state. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1687530543" data-format="short_date">Jun 23, 2023</span></span>
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Paul Lay and Alastair Benn are joined by Alexander Lee, biographer of Niccolò Machiavelli, to discuss the Renaissance thinker&#39;s foundational contribution to the study of statecraft.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1687522885" data-format="short_date">Jun 23, 2023</span></span>
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EI Weekly Listen — Clashing histories and present-day tensions in East Asia by Rana Mitter
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As China ramps up its military spending, the government in Beijing plays up its role in the Second World War. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1686926911" data-format="short_date">Jun 16, 2023</span></span>
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EI Talks... Cricket
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Paul Lay and Alastair Benn discuss the deep meaning of Cricket in light of the forthcoming Ashes series between England and Australia, and the recent wider changes the game has undergone.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1686838443" data-format="short_date">Jun 15, 2023</span></span>
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EI Weekly Listen — Do we know the truth about the Thirty Years’ War? By Dick Harrison
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Different perspectives and eye-witness accounts reveal historical fallacies and myths about the war. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1686235768" data-format="short_date">Jun 08, 2023</span></span>
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1685032562" data-format="short_date">May 25, 2023</span></span>
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