Orlando Gibbs on the significance of the meeting between Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's Underworld, the death knell of the Iliadic dream. 🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey audioboom.com/posts/893414...

Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus is not the trickster of the Homeric poems. Orlando Gibbs explains why. 🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey audioboom.com/posts/893414...

Kathleen Burk on how the Dutch were the driving force behind the cultivation of wine in Bordeaux and the Loire Valley. 🎧The EI Podcast: How wine made the modern world audioboom.com/posts/893154...

Peter Ricketts on Sir Alexander Cadogan, Churchill’s most trusted foreign policy adviser and architect of the Atlantic Charter. 🎧The EI Podcast: The diplomats who defeated Hitler audioboom.com/posts/892883...

Can the UN survive in a world of great power rivalry? Peter Ricketts suggests there is no going back to the old rules-based international order. 🎧 The EI Podcast: The diplomats who defeated Hitler audioboom.com/posts/892883...

Historian Brendan Simms on the future of American foreign policy. 🎧 The EI Podcast: The return of the Great Powers audioboom.com/posts/892584...

Is Russia – despite its troubles in Ukraine and subordination to China – still a Great Power? Brendan Simms suggests that it is. 🎧The EI Podcast: The return of the Great Powers audioboom.com/posts/892584...

🎧The EI Podcast: 250 years of the American experiment @philtinline.bsky.social on how the concept of ‘the frontier’ has shaped the country’s political culture. audioboom.com/posts/892352...

Is the era of mass literacy over? And what might a post-literate society look like? 🗣️ @alastairbenn.bsky.social is joined by James Marriott and @paullay.bsky.social to discuss literacy and its uses. 🎙️The dawn of the post-literate society | EI Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...