EI Weekly Listen

Francis J. Gavin on the terrible dilemmas of leadership in a thermonuclear world

James Marriott on why human art matters in the age of AI

Katja Hoyer on East Germany's battle for technology

Gudrun Persson on Russia’s forever war against Ukraine

Iskander Rehman on early modern information overload

Julian Jackson on De Gaulle’s world in motion

Josef Joffe on Germany, the engine that couldn't

Maurizio Viroli on how we can learn from history

Philip Bobbitt on the decay and renewal of the US constitutional order

Lars Trägårdh on the origins of Swedish democracy

Josef Joffe on the future of the European Union

Simon Mayall on the history of the modern Middle East

Lawrence James on the invention of jingoism

Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood

Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy

Mariano Sigman on how language has shaped human consciousness

Nathan Shachar on ideology in science

Gregory Feifer on the mirage of Russian power

Peter Heather on empire and development in first millennium Europe

Barry Strauss on Ancient Greek geopolitics