# The EI Podcast Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386.md RSS feed: https://audioboom.com/channels/5029938.rss Official site: https://audioboom.com/channels/5029938 Author: Engelsberg Ideas Episodes: 391 ## Resource The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ei-podcast-916386 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386.md ## Episodes - [250 years of the American experiment](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/250-years-of-the-american-experiment) — 2026-07-02T17:15:57+00:00 - [Where is Russia’s place in the world?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/where-is-russia-s-place-in-the-world) — 2026-06-29T12:33:00+00:00 - [Christianity’s debt to Rome](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/christianity-s-debt-to-rome) — 2026-06-25T08:40:52+00:00 - [Jean Eustache: the outsider who reshaped French cinema](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/jean-eustache-the-outsider-who-reshaped-french-cinema) — 2026-06-22T13:01:13+00:00 - [How to end a war](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/how-to-end-a-war) — 2026-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 - [Testament to doomed media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/testament-to-doomed-media) — 2026-06-15T13:59:43+00:00 - [Why Armenia’s elections matter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/why-armenia-s-elections-matter) — 2026-06-11T11:01:35+00:00 - [Len Deighton’s spycraft](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/len-deighton-s-spycraft) — 2026-06-08T12:57:57+00:00 - [China's bid for economic supremacy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/china-s-bid-for-economic-supremacy) — 2026-06-04T11:03:57+00:00 - [A Jewish-American dream](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/a-jewish-american-dream) — 2026-06-01T12:55:53+00:00 - [Muslims and Jews' shared inheritance](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/muslims-and-jews-shared-inheritance) — 2026-05-28T16:25:26+00:00 - [Finding Turkey in Narnia](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/finding-turkey-in-narnia) — 2026-05-26T08:00:00+00:00 - [The life and legacy of Steve Schapiro](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-life-and-legacy-of-steve-schapiro) — 2026-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 - [Agent Zo, the spy who saved Poland](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/agent-zo-the-spy-who-saved-poland) — 2026-05-18T12:05:24+00:00 - [Lewis and Clark’s American Odyssey](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/lewis-and-clark-s-american-odyssey) — 2026-05-14T11:06:12+00:00 - [Why powerful individuals are dominating politics](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/why-powerful-individuals-are-dominating-politics) — 2026-05-11T11:11:04+00:00 - [Weimar’s descent into darkness](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/weimar-s-descent-into-darkness) — 2026-05-07T09:37:45+00:00 - [The civilising wonders of wine](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-civilising-wonders-of-wine) — 2026-05-05T11:52:09+00:00 - [Can Europe thrive in a multipolar world?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/can-europe-thrive-in-a-multipolar-world) — 2026-04-30T11:06:09+00:00 - [The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-long-shadow-of-the-nuremberg-and-tokyo-trials) — 2026-04-27T11:03:48+00:00 - [Universities are at crisis point](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/universities-are-at-crisis-point) — 2026-04-23T09:22:01+00:00 - [The anatomy of the spy novel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-anatomy-of-the-spy-novel) — 2026-04-20T13:43:42+00:00 - [The roots of the West’s identity crisis](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-roots-of-the-west-s-identity-crisis) — 2026-04-16T08:37:46+00:00 - [Iran’s strange Scottish obsession](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/iran-s-strange-scottish-obsession) — 2026-04-13T13:14:48+00:00 - [Washington’s return to Latin America](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/washington-s-return-to-latin-america) — 2026-04-09T10:42:45+00:00 - [The Houthis’ forever war](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-houthis-forever-war) — 2026-04-03T10:24:01+00:00 - [Can epic poetry revive History?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/can-epic-poetry-revive-history) — 2026-03-30T13:47:19+00:00 - [The need for muscular liberalism](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-need-for-muscular-liberalism) — 2026-03-26T11:34:30+00:00 - [The first butterfly collectors](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-first-butterfly-collectors) — 2026-03-23T15:36:51+00:00 - [Trump’s imperial worldview](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/trump-s-imperial-worldview) — 2026-03-19T12:47:26+00:00 - [The strange death of private life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-strange-death-of-private-life) — 2026-03-16T13:13:02+00:00 - [The Gulf’s Iran dilemma](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-gulf-s-iran-dilemma) — 2026-03-12T14:25:45+00:00 - [The rise of the mega-influencer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-rise-of-the-mega-influencer) — 2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00 - [Putin, the once and future Chekist](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/putin-the-once-and-future-chekist) — 2026-02-26T10:28:58+00:00 - [When Edo became Tokyo](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/when-edo-became-tokyo) — 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 - [Hamlet unravelled](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/hamlet-unravelled) — 2026-02-12T10:35:31+00:00 - [The making of Xi Jinping's worldview](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-making-of-xi-jinping-s-worldview) — 2026-02-05T12:22:05+00:00 - [Nietzsche’s manifesto for reading](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/nietzsche-s-manifesto-for-reading) — 2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00 - [Inside the world of medieval espionage](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/inside-the-world-of-medieval-espionage) — 2026-01-22T09:42:00+00:00 - [The Monroe Doctrine: The United States’ hemispheric strategy explained](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/the-monroe-doctrine-the-united-states-hemispheric-strategy-explained) — 2026-01-15T11:58:02+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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