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The promise and perils of declassifying intelligence
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Paul Lay and Alastair Benn are joined by Calder Walton, author of Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West, to discuss how governments can use covertly acquired intelligence as a powerful tool to influence debate — and how easily it can all go wrong.

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Wolfgang Palaver on the complex relationship between violence and religion
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Wherever we insist on truth in order to win over our adversaries, we awaken a spirit of violence that endangers our living-together in the world. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1700234260" data-format="short_date">Nov 17, 2023</span></span>
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Recovering the women of Augustine&#39;s Confessions
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Paul Lay and Alastair Benn are joined by Kate Cooper, author of Queens of a Fallen World, to discuss the women who shaped the life of Augustine of Hippo.

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56m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1700031600" data-format="short_date">Nov 15, 2023</span></span>
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Gary Lachman on the sources of mystical experience
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Mystical experience is the missing link in modern accounts of how human beings came to be conscious. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Trasverberazione di Santa Teresa d’Avila (1640). Credit: jozef sedmak / Alamy Stock Photo
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42m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1699622014" data-format="short_date">Nov 10, 2023</span></span>
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The Beatles’ cultural legacy
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Paul Lay, Alastair Benn and Iain Martin discuss the cultural legacy of the Fab Four and why the Beatles story continues to fascinate sixty years on.

Image: The Beatles showing their MBE Insignias after receiving them from the Queen. Credit: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1699618678" data-format="short_date">Nov 10, 2023</span></span>
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Benedetta Berti on the legacy of the Arab Awakening of 2010
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The Middle East and North Africa&#39;s transition from authoritarianism to democracy has been slow and painful, with both hopeful gains as well as worrisome setbacks. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Crowds cheer joyfully in central Cairo, Egypt. Credit: Jake Lyell / Alamy Stock Photo
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1698998800" data-format="short_date">Nov 03, 2023</span></span>
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Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy
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Paul Lay is joined by Kori Schake to examine the rise and fall of the inspirational Shawnee leader Tecumseh who used strategy to defy America&#39;s westward expansion.

Image: Shawnee chief Tecumseh confronting William Henry Harrison in Indiana. Credit: North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy Stock Photo
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1698919860" data-format="short_date">Nov 02, 2023</span></span>
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Armin W. Geertz on the pre-historical roots of religious belief
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The history and evolution of (proto) religious behaviour is ancient. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1698413007" data-format="short_date">Oct 27, 2023</span></span>
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A deep history of Gaza
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Paul Lay and Alastair Benn are joined by James Barr, historian of the Middle East, to discuss Gaza&#39;s long and complex history and how it continues to be felt in the present day.

Image: A print of Gaza around 1880. Credit: Holy Land Art / Alamy Stock Photo
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1698401775" data-format="short_date">Oct 27, 2023</span></span>
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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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22m
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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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A new translation of the Iliad
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A new translation of the Iliad is an opportunity to reassess the first great work of European literature.

Image: Achilles and Memnon fighting in Greek pottery dating to 300 BC. Credit: Peter Horree / Alamy Stock Photo
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41m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1697806397" data-format="short_date">Oct 20, 2023</span></span>
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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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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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Kjell Nordström on the future of capitalism
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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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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1696628096" data-format="short_date">Oct 06, 2023</span></span>
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The cultural resonances of 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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Maurizio Viroli on the city as a political order and urban space
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1695998823" data-format="short_date">Sep 29, 2023</span></span>
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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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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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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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Fraser Nelson on the Intellectual Dark Web
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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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Kennedy’s enduring status
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JFK biographer Fredrik Logevall, in conversation with EI&#39;s Paul Lay and Iain Martin, discusses Kennedy&#39;s enduring and &#39;iconic&#39; status, his claims to greatness, his style, and what his example offers for a divided America.

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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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In the latest episode of EI Talks... Paul Lay and Alastair Benn put together an idiot&#39;s guide to Rugby Union. The World Cup, the sport&#39;s showcase competition, kicks off tonight. The team gives their predictions.

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32m
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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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32m
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23m
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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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23m
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23m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1692978032" data-format="short_date">Aug 25, 2023</span></span>
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23m
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14m
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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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25m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1691130000" data-format="short_date">Aug 04, 2023</span></span>
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24m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1690561653" data-format="short_date">Jul 28, 2023</span></span>
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As the Rolling Stones frontman enters his ninth decade, EI asks whether there is a future for ageing rockers.

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41m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1690473737" data-format="short_date">Jul 27, 2023</span></span>
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22m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1689862371" data-format="short_date">Jul 20, 2023</span></span>
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39m
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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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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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36m
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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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43m
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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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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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Sully, Richelieu, and 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? 
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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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41m
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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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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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37m
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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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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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Machiavelli&#39;s foundational contribution to the study of statecraft
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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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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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The deep meaning of 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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Do we know the truth about the Thirty Years’ War? 
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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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The problem with Classical music
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Paul Lay and Alastair Benn discuss the future of Classical music.

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33m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1686223417" data-format="short_date">Jun 08, 2023</span></span>
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33m
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Strategy, resilience and defence
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Paul Lay and Alastair Benn discuss the London Defence Conference and the return of strategic thinking to the Western alliance.

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33m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1685720470" data-format="short_date">Jun 02, 2023</span></span>
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33m
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