The EI Podcast
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The Houthis’ forever war
50 mins; April 03, 2026
Can epic poetry revive History?
14 mins; March 30, 2026
The need for muscular liberalism
49 mins; March 26, 2026
The first butterfly collectors
8 mins; March 23, 2026
Trump’s imperial worldview
30 mins; March 19, 2026
The strange death of private life
17 mins; March 16, 2026
The Gulf’s Iran dilemma
47 mins; March 12, 2026
The rise of the mega-influencer
6 mins; March 05, 2026
Putin, the once and future Chekist
17 mins; February 26, 2026
When Edo became Tokyo
20 mins; February 19, 2026
Hamlet unravelled
51 mins; February 12, 2026
The making of Xi Jinping's worldview
72 hours 48 mins; February 05, 2026
Nietzsche’s manifesto for reading
11 mins; January 29, 2026
Inside the world of medieval espionage
16 mins; January 22, 2026
The Monroe Doctrine: The United States’ hemispheric strategy explained
57 mins; January 15, 2026
The strange case of Robert Louis Stevenson
47 mins; January 08, 2026
The instability of a multipolar era
61 hours 19 mins; December 29, 2025
Why the brain is the ultimate weapon of war
61 hours 20 mins; December 18, 2025
The end of Pax Britannica
29 mins; December 11, 2025
The classical key to the AI revolution
21 mins; December 04, 2025
The Risorgimento myth
22 mins; November 27, 2025
China's quest to engineer the future
43 mins; November 20, 2025
The double agent who introduced Japan to the West
19 mins; November 13, 2025
Lessons from the Wall Street Crash
32 mins; November 05, 2025
1821 and the invention of world order
20 mins; October 30, 2025
The growing-pains of Graham Greene
22 mins; October 23, 2025
The Slavic War according to Stalin
26 mins; October 16, 2025
A warning to the young: just say no to AI
13 mins; October 09, 2025
The Slow Horses are Britain’s perfect spies
14 mins; October 02, 2025
Stephen Kotkin on a new age of warfare
68 hours 19 mins; September 25, 2025
The Great French Songbook
16 mins; September 18, 2025
Our attention dilemma is age-old
14 mins; September 11, 2025
How the state can do more for less
15 mins; September 04, 2025
The espionage revolution
16 mins; August 28, 2025
Graham Greene's Vietnam
59 mins; August 21, 2025
How the Nazis weaponised Charlemagne
16 mins; August 14, 2025
Why do we get the wrong leaders?
16 mins; August 07, 2025
Why liberal democracies win total wars
16 mins; July 31, 2025
No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century
50 mins; July 24, 2025
The rift that doomed the Confederacy
29 mins; July 17, 2025
The Trial at 100: revisiting Kafka’s prophetic masterpiece
56 mins; July 10, 2025
How the Knights Templars conquered Christendom
20 mins; July 03, 2025
The lost art of chorography
24 mins; June 26, 2025
1975, the year that made the modern world
18 mins; June 19, 2025
How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin fought Hitler – and each other
42 mins; June 12, 2025
What happened to the politician’s moustache?
18 mins; June 05, 2025
The strange death of squalor
20 mins; May 29, 2025
Why Finns joined the fight
22 mins; May 22, 2025
The West’s lust for liberty
13 mins; May 15, 2025
Christianity and the creation of England
59 mins; May 08, 2025
How the liberation of France shaped the modern world
17 mins; May 01, 2025
China vs the WTO: The Inside Story
62 hours 38 mins; April 24, 2025
Madame Bovary and the problem of desire
18 mins; April 17, 2025
The German key to European liberty
16 mins; April 10, 2025
The making of Trump's worldview
62 hours 37 mins; April 10, 2025
How Russia negotiates
33 mins; April 04, 2025
Liberty under attack
20 mins; March 28, 2025
The uses of comedy
50 mins; March 27, 2025
Gazing back to see China’s future
17 mins; March 21, 2025
The myth of Venice
22 mins; March 14, 2025
Spartacus, history’s nowhere man
19 mins; March 07, 2025
How a Second Cold War could have been averted
20 mins; February 28, 2025
The case for Classical music
56 mins; February 27, 2025
Ukraine's rich history of resistance
31 mins; February 21, 2025
The global threat to liberty
19 mins; February 14, 2025
The myth and magic of spy fiction
55 mins; February 13, 2025
How the GDR fell in love with the West
18 mins; February 07, 2025
Pittacus, the good tyrant
11 mins; February 06, 2025
The power of shareholder democracy
16 mins; January 31, 2025
The dawn of the post-literate society
46 mins; January 30, 2025
What drives Vladimir Putin?
17 mins; January 24, 2025
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocket man
13 mins; January 23, 2025
Liberty in the shadow of Bonaparte
18 mins; January 17, 2025
The case for Classics
42 mins; January 16, 2025
How 1970s California created the modern world
21 mins; January 10, 2025
Guittone d’Arezzo, Dante’s forgotten muse
18 mins; January 09, 2025
The writer's right to speak freely
17 mins; December 20, 2024
Fredrik Logevall on the Vietnam War
31 mins; December 19, 2024
The price of freedom
17 mins; December 13, 2024
EI Portraits — Paul Lay on Thomas Gage, a man of unintended consequences
12 mins; December 12, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — David Butterfield on Epicurus, Lucretius, and the myth of mythlessness
21 mins; December 06, 2024
The problem with VAR
49 mins; December 05, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Braw on the importance of understanding the West's adversaries
18 mins; November 29, 2024
EI Portraits — Andrew Roberts on Brendan Bracken, ‘more Churchillian than Churchill’
11 mins; November 29, 2024
EI Talks... Kissinger's century with Thomas A. Schwartz
28 mins; November 28, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Henrik Meinander on Gustaf Mannerheim, leader of a free Finland
19 mins; November 22, 2024
EI Talks... how to deter Russia with Kristjan Prikk and Eitvydas Bajarūnas
26 mins; November 21, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Rory Medcalf on the Australian way of war and peace
27 mins; November 15, 2024
EI Talks... the making of the post-Wall world with Mary Elise Sarotte
25 mins; November 14, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Andreas Rödder on Konrad Adenauer and the German realignment
17 mins; November 08, 2024
EI Portraits — Maria Golia on Carl Akeley, early pioneer of wildlife photography
14 mins; November 07, 2024
EI Talks... the lessons of the 1968 presidential election with Luke A. Nichter
46 mins; November 04, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Kenneth Payne asks: will machines make strategy?
22 mins; November 01, 2024
EI Talks... why Europe needs a grand strategy with Marina E. Henke
20 mins; October 31, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Alina Polyakova on Ukraine and the future of US global leadership
13 mins; October 25, 2024
EI Portraits — Adrian Wooldridge on Philippa Fawcett, wrangler extraordinaire
14 mins; October 24, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Philip Zelikow on the study of statecraft
21 mins; October 18, 2024
EI Talks... how to win Cold War II with Dmitri Alperovitch
29 mins; October 17, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Kristin Ven Bruusgaard on the paradox of nuclear strategy
17 mins; October 11, 2024
EI Portraits — Graham Stewart on Joseph Galloway, the forgotten Founding Father
16 mins; October 10, 2024