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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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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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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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Ronald Reagan&#39;s grand strategy with William Inboden
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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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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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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.

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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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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1718946000" data-format="short_date">Jun 21, 2024</span></span>
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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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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1718878814" data-format="short_date">Jun 20, 2024</span></span>
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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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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1718789199" data-format="short_date">Jun 19, 2024</span></span>
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Josef Joffe on Germany, the engine that couldn&#39;t
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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.

Image: The top of the Reichstag Building. Credit: Artur Bogacki / Alamy Stock Photo
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23m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1718351412" data-format="short_date">Jun 14, 2024</span></span>
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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.

Image: Nikolaos Gyzis, a 19th Century painter, depicts Sappho playing the lyre. Credit: Photo 12 / Alamy Stock Photo
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37m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1718251200" data-format="short_date">Jun 13, 2024</span></span>
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Maurizio Viroli on how we can learn from history
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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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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1717740000" data-format="short_date">Jun 07, 2024</span></span>
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James Barr on George McGhee, American father to Britain’s Suez Crisis 
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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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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1717653600" data-format="short_date">Jun 06, 2024</span></span>
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Philip Bobbitt on the decay and renewal of the US constitutional order
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A new constitutional order is coming. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Credit: Lane Erickson / Alamy Stock Photo
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1717141096" data-format="short_date">May 31, 2024</span></span>
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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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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1717081009" data-format="short_date">May 30, 2024</span></span>
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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.

Image: Midsummer Dance by Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920) painted in 1897. A classic of Swedish art history showing traditional folk dancing in the Dalarna countryside in the extended summer evening light. Credit: Univers...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1716530400" data-format="short_date">May 24, 2024</span></span>
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Dominic Sandbrook on Jesse Ventura, the wrestling governor who blazed a trail for Trump 
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Dominic Sandbrook (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/dominic-sandbrook/) profiles Jesse Ventura (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/jesse-ventura-the-wrestling-governor-who-blazed-a-trail-for-trump/) , the former Navy SEAL and WWE champion who won Minnesota’s governorship in 1999 on an anti-elite ticket. His transition from showbiz to politics was a precursor of the age of Trump – but ’the ...
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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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Josef Joffe on the future of the European Union
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What is the future of the European Union? The EU is sui generis. It certainly cannot be a nation state. Nor is it destined to turn into a Staatsnation or willed nation. Then what? Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: European Union flags. Credit: Brian Lawrence / Alamy Stock Photo
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<span class="numeric-tabular d-sm-none">
18m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1715938218" data-format="short_date">May 17, 2024</span></span>
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18m
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The age of upheaval
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EI&#39;s Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) and Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) ask: do we really live in an age of upheaval?

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45m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1715935701" data-format="short_date">May 17, 2024</span></span>
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45m
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Simon Mayall on the history of the modern Middle East
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The current violence and turmoil in the Middle East is expressive of a conflict between rival ideas, between the modern nation state and an old, historical concept of an Islamic caliphate. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Abdel Nasser at a rally after the rupture of relations with Syria. Credit: colaimages / Alamy Stock Photo
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23m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1715333250" data-format="short_date">May 10, 2024</span></span>
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23m
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James Hardie on Heinrich Biber, composer of rapture and ravings 
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James Hardie (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/james-hardie/) on the violinist-composer (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/heinrich-biber-composer-of-rapture-and-ravings/) who mixed the sacred and profane in his fantastical music, a lost genius of the 17th century. Read by Sebastian Brown.

Image: A print of Heinrich Biber. Credit: The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo
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10m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1715252466" data-format="short_date">May 09, 2024</span></span>
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10m
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Lawrence James on the invention of jingoism
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Jingoism was a natural offshoot of late Victorian imperialism. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Poster for a British imperial railway company. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
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34m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1714716000" data-format="short_date">May 03, 2024</span></span>
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34m
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Caravaggio’s ‘last’ painting
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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.

Image: The Martyrdom of St Ursula, 1610. Credit: incamerastock / Alamy Stock Photo
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37m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1714643120" data-format="short_date">May 02, 2024</span></span>
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37m
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Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood
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What is a nation, what is its significance, and to what problems of life is its persistence a response? Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Lucas Cranach&#39;s The Crossing of the Red Sea, 1530. Credit: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
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22m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1714111200" data-format="short_date">Apr 26, 2024</span></span>
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22m
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Vanessa Harding on Nehemiah Wallington, Puritan chronicler who had far less fun than Pepys 
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Vanessa Harding (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/vanessa-harding/) on the God-fearing diarist Nehemiah Wallington (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/nehemiah-wallington-puritan-chronicler-had-far-less-fun-than-pepys/) whose personality was far removed from the cosmopolitanism of Samuel Pepys, his fast-living contemporary. Read by Sebastian Brown.

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13m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1714041006" data-format="short_date">Apr 25, 2024</span></span>
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13m
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Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy
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The biggest division in modern society is between the meritocracy and the people, the cognitive elite and the masses, the exam-passers and the exam-flunkers. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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30m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1713506400" data-format="short_date">Apr 19, 2024</span></span>
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The Entente Cordiale with T.G. Otte
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Self-interest, imperial competition and new threats in Europe - T.G. Otte (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/t-g-otte/) examines the complex 120-year long history of the Entente Cordiale (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-entente-cordiale-bad-history-but-good-politics/) with EI&#39;s senior editor, Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) .

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36m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1713439226" data-format="short_date">Apr 18, 2024</span></span>
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Mariano Sigman on how language has shaped human consciousness
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How did our ancestors think? Read by Leighton Pugh.

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13m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1712919749" data-format="short_date">Apr 12, 2024</span></span>
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13m
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Peter Frankopan (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/peter-frankopan/) on the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/anna-komnene-the-princess-who-chronicled-byzantiums-changing-fortunes/) who, banished to a convent for her political ambition, devoted her gifts of observation to charting the fortunes of her father&#39;s empire – etching her legacy as Europe&#39;s first fe...
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There is no linear, moral progress in knowledge and science. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Triple-microscope made by the optician Camille Sebastien Nachet in Paris. Credit: gameover / Alamy Stock Photo
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The evolution of terrorist threat
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EI&#39;s Deputy Editor Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) speaks to Suzanne Raine (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/suzanne-raine/) , visiting professor in the Department of War Studies at King&#39;s College London, about the evolution of the terrorist threat (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/what-should-we-do-when-the-terrorists-go-quiet/) and its long history (https...
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Gregory Feifer on the mirage of Russian power
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The mistake many Western countries make is to take Russia largely at face value. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Nesting Russian dolls showing former leaders. Credit: Mr Standfast / Alamy Stock Photo
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Gillian Clark (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/gillian-clark/) on Saint Monica (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/the-many-ways-of-seeing-saint-monica/) , mother to Augustine of Hippo and lionized by the Latin Church, a women of many names and many more mysteries. Read by Sebastian Brown.

Image: Saint Augustine and his mother, Saint Monica. Credit:: Carlo Bollo / Alamy Stock Photo
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Peter Heather on empire and development in first millennium Europe 
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The story of first millennium Europe is one of remarkable economic change and demographic upheaval; a precocious analogue to the modern era of globalisation. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Charlemagne. Credit: The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo
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Will AI revolutionise education?
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Daisy Christodoulou (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/daisy-christodoulou/) punctures the hype around the applications of Large language models (LLMs) and chatbots to the field of learning. Will AI really revolutionise education? (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/will-ai-revolutionise-education/)

Image: Mechanical brain. Credit: Sibani Das / Alamy Stock Vector
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The Greeks invented the notion of the interrelationship of geography and politics; indeed, they elaborated it in myriad ways. Read by Leighton Pugh.

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/duality-determinism-and-demography-the-greeks-on-geopolitics/

Image: The Athenian fleet. Credit: INTERFOTO \ Alamy Stock Photo
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Jenny McCartney on Jean Denis, Comte Lanjuinais, fearless opponent of The Terror 
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Jenny McCartney (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/jenny-mccartney/) on Comte Lanjuinais (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/jean-denis-comte-lanjuinais-fearless-opponent-of-the-terror/) , who risked his life by defying the Jacobins. Read by Sebastian Brown.

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Josef Joffe on the end of &#39;the end of history&#39;
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We equated a brief respite from history with the dawn of a new age. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Credit: Agencja Fotograficzna Caro / Alamy Stock Photo
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1709901578" data-format="short_date">Mar 08, 2024</span></span>
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Werner Herzog
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Geoff Andrew (https://www2.bfi.org.uk/people/geoff-andrew) , the BFI&#39;s programmer-at-large, and film critic Muriel Zagha (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/muriel-zagha/) sit down with EI&#39;s Deputy Editor Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) to discuss the varied, visionary and eccentric creations of the German filmmaker Werner Herzog.

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