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Worldview — The risks and the rewards of AI
Geopolitics never went away for the United States
On Civility by Erica Benner
Information war does not exist by Peter Pomerantsev
The ancient roots of the modern holy war by Tom Holland
From the Silk Road to the information superhighway by Peter Frankopan
Finding Garibaldi by Lucy Riall
What did it mean to belong to the Holy Roman Empire? by Peter Wilson
Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East by Brendan Simms
What is mistake theory and can it save the humanities? By Claire Lehmann
Worldview — Genome, the dangers and potential of gene editing
The Case of East Asia by Jonathan Fenby
Worldview — China and India: a new struggle for dominance
How to fix the future, Estonian style by Andrew Keen
Worldview — Revolution and evolution: the history of the book
Why the nation beat the empire in the battle of nineteenth century ideas by Jeremy Jennings
Worldview — Pressure on the power network
The joy of suffering by Candida Moss
Worldview — The nuclear threat today
The Revolt of the European Masses: the disintegration of accountability in supra-national politics by Janne Haaland Matlary
Worldview — The global struggle for microchip supremacy
Rethinking geopolitics by Jeremy Black
Why the idea of Carthage survived Roman conquest by Richard Miles
EI Weekly Listen — The end of history ends by Walter Russell Mead
The restless search for the fun wars by David J Betz
The impact of the First World War on strategy by Hew Strachan
The polymath in the age of specialisation by Peter Burke
Authority without knowledge by Erica Benner
Geopolitics and the Mongol Empire by Morris Rossabi
Fairy Tales of Statehood: the politics of sacred land and divine-kings by Jessica Frazier
Why War Again? by Lilia Shevtsova
Jihadist Media Strategies by Elisabeth Kendall
The Joint Intelligence Committee: Reading the Russian mindset by Michael Goodman
Democracy in crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens by Erica Benner
Tribal bias from the wild to the laboratory by Cory J Clark
Love as Religion by Simon May
The Gospel of Thomas: casting a new light on Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels
Worldview — The battle for energy resources
Why 16 billion cortical neurons are not enough by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Worldview — Leadership in war
Modern France and the ghosts of the past by Peter Ricketts
Lawrence of Arabia on war: How the past haunts the present by Rob Johnson
The importance of the individual in history by Vernon Bogdanor
Worldview — Conflict in space
Geopolitics, geoeconomics and Russian revisionism by Mikael Wigell
Worldview — The Battlefield
Worldview — The Russia Problem
Containing and deterring Russia: can Europe act strategically? by Janne Haaland Matlary
Worldview — The World Remade
The long peace and nuclear deterrence by Lawrence Freedman
Variety in Judaism by Martin Goodman
America's problem with unconventional warfare by Frederick Kagan
Suffering, the price of being alive: an Islamic perspective by Mona Siddiqui
Reassessing Christian history by Diarmaid Macculloch
The gods in love by Jessica Frazier
The story of the Jesuits: how the Society of Jesus charted the world by M.Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J.
The Portuguese: Pioneers of globalisation by Roger Crowley
Elements of seapower, past and present by Lincoln Paine
Making sense of the Yemen War by Elisabeth Kendall
The dark side to loving a group by Harvey Whitehouse
The fake history of civilisational states by Christopher Coker
The flag wars are here to stay by Tim Marshall
Disinformation in the information age by Gill Bennett
Roman geopolitics, an exercise in myth-making by Richard Miles
How US policy failure post-9/11 undermined international order by Emma Sky
Uruk and the origins of the sacred economy by Daniel T. Potts
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy revisited by Niall Ferguson
Cool war by Noah Feldman
Russia and geopolitics by Anna-Lena Laurén
Fantasy in Middle Eastern nation-making by Nathan Shachar
You are not as clever as you think by Mark Pagel
Adrian Wooldridge on the return of religion
Martina Winkelhofer-Thyri on whether Austria is a nation, state or an empire
Tom Holland on Æthelstan and the forging of a United Kingdom of England
Maurizio Viroli on the virtues of the city-state
Robin Lane Fox on nationalism in the classical world
Hew Strachan on the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic
Alexander Lee on Machiavelli and civil strife
Adrian Wooldridge on why the West needs Plato more than ever
Richard Whatmore on why revolutions are a disaster
36: Andrew Graham-Dixon on crisis and great art
35: Tom Holland on the empty metropolis
34: Donald Sassoon on a world of nations and states
33: Jonathan Fenby on China's great uncoupling
31: David Seedhouse: Covid-19 and the moral case for personal judgement
30: Matthew Goodwin: Meet the Zoomer generation
29: Tim Marshall: New Turkey's old politics
28: Graham Stewart on Thatcher's rescue from historical cliché
27: Mark Honigsbaum: Challenging the 'Great Reset' theory of pandemics
25: Clive Aslet: The changing fate of the English country house
23: Helen Thompson: Geopolitics of a pandemic
21: Philip Bobbitt: A government of laws
20: Vanessa Harding: Remembering London's last Great Plague
19: Johan Hakelius: John Hughes and the making and unmaking of the American Dream
18: Iskander Rehman: Why applied history matters
16: Gillian Clark: Survival lessons from Ancient Rome
15: Peter Frankopan: This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic
12: Can America lead again?
11: GCHQ – John Ferris on the official history
10: MI9 – Helen Fry on wartime escape