Quillette Narrated en Quillette Pty Ltd Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays. https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b6591024-0dc4-11ed-9913-8363d420fcbe/image/58e783e00fca61fe57fd4dec5fa0aada.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress Quillette Narrated episodic Quillette Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays. Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.

]]> Quillette claire@quillette.com Strange Bedfellows https://quillette.com/2026/04/03/strange-bedfellows-left-greens-islamists-london/ The hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:04:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. The hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran.

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]]> 819 Once Upon a Time...Film Critics Became Joyless—A Review https://quillette.com/2019/08/17/once-upon-a-time-film-critics-became-joyless-a-review/ Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:54:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Charlotte Allen. Read by William Laing. Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself.

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]]> 876 Beautiful Visions https://quillette.com/2025/08/31/beautiful-visions-van-morrison-turns-eighty/ Van Morrison turns eighty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:24:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by David Cohen; read by William Laing. Van Morrison turns eighty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Van Morrison turns eighty.

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]]> 1135 The Many Faces of Tucker Carlson https://quillette.com/2026/03/17/the-many-faces-of-tucker-carlson-hated-by-all-the-right-people-jason-zengerle-review/ A review of Jason Zengerle's biography of Tucker Carlson, tracing his fall from gifted journalist to antisemitic demagogue. By Graham Daseler. 00:00 — Carlson’s childhood debate (playing Carter vs Reagan) 01:16 — Introduction to Zengerle’s book Hated by All the Right People 01:52 — Lesson: attacking opponents vs defending ideas 02:15 — Early career as a strong, independent conservative writer 03:23 — Exposé of Grover Norquist 03:43 — Transition to television and rise as a pundit 04:05 — Joining CNN’s Crossfire 05:10 — Realisation: television > print for influence 05:31 — Washington elite social life and prominence 06:17 — Jon Stewart confrontation and fallout 07:33 — Career decline: PBS → MSNBC → failures 08:41 — Founding The Daily Caller 09:23 — Shift toward click-driven, sensational content 10:05 — “There is no line” — collapse of editorial standards 10:29 — Competition with Breitbart and hiring extremists 11:10 — Obsession with TV exposure 12:06 — Return to prominence with Fox News (2016) 12:49 — Embrace of Trump-era populism 13:06 — Private disdain vs public support for Trump 13:28 — Ratings peak and influence inside the White House 14:27 — Shift in ideology and embrace of conspiracies 15:08 — Patriot Purge and January 6 claims 15:36 — Dominion lawsuit and internal contradictions 16:06 — Exit from Fox News (2023) 16:28 — Move to Twitter/X and podcast dominance 17:00 — Increasing focus on antisemitic themes 17:46 — Controversial guests (e.g. Churchill revisionism) 18:00 — Interview with Nick Fuentes 18:16 — Selective questioning and double standards 19:00 — Personal continuity vs ideological transformation 19:22 — Reinvention as anti-elite populist 19:54 — Turn toward fringe conspiracy content 20:14 — Carlson as symbol of media degradation 20:37 — Comparison to historical demagogues 21:27 — Parallel with Joseph Sobran’s trajectory 21:47 — Ongoing political influence despite setbacks 22:00 — Conclusion: enduring opportunism and audience-first approach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:49:00 -0000 full Quillette A review of Jason Zengerle's biography of Tucker Carlson, tracing his fall from gifted journalist to antisemitic demagogue. By Graham Daseler. 00:00 — Carlson’s childhood debate (playing Carter vs Reagan) 01:16 — Introduction to Zengerle’s book Hated by All the Right People 01:52 — Lesson: attacking opponents vs defending ideas 02:15 — Early career as a strong, independent conservative writer 03:23 — Exposé of Grover Norquist 03:43 — Transition to television and rise as a pundit 04:05 — Joining CNN’s Crossfire 05:10 — Realisation: television > print for influence 05:31 — Washington elite social life and prominence 06:17 — Jon Stewart confrontation and fallout 07:33 — Career decline: PBS → MSNBC → failures 08:41 — Founding The Daily Caller 09:23 — Shift toward click-driven, sensational content 10:05 — “There is no line” — collapse of editorial standards 10:29 — Competition with Breitbart and hiring extremists 11:10 — Obsession with TV exposure 12:06 — Return to prominence with Fox News (2016) 12:49 — Embrace of Trump-era populism 13:06 — Private disdain vs public support for Trump 13:28 — Ratings peak and influence inside the White House 14:27 — Shift in ideology and embrace of conspiracies 15:08 — Patriot Purge and January 6 claims 15:36 — Dominion lawsuit and internal contradictions 16:06 — Exit from Fox News (2023) 16:28 — Move to Twitter/X and podcast dominance 17:00 — Increasing focus on antisemitic themes 17:46 — Controversial guests (e.g. Churchill revisionism) 18:00 — Interview with Nick Fuentes 18:16 — Selective questioning and double standards 19:00 — Personal continuity vs ideological transformation 19:22 — Reinvention as anti-elite populist 19:54 — Turn toward fringe conspiracy content 20:14 — Carlson as symbol of media degradation 20:37 — Comparison to historical demagogues 21:27 — Parallel with Joseph Sobran’s trajectory 21:47 — Ongoing political influence despite setbacks 22:00 — Conclusion: enduring opportunism and audience-first approach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A review of Jason Zengerle's biography of Tucker Carlson, tracing his fall from gifted journalist to antisemitic demagogue. By Graham Daseler.


00:00 — Carlson’s childhood debate (playing Carter vs Reagan)
01:16 — Introduction to Zengerle’s book Hated by All the Right People
01:52 — Lesson: attacking opponents vs defending ideas
02:15 — Early career as a strong, independent conservative writer
03:23 — Exposé of Grover Norquist
03:43 — Transition to television and rise as a pundit
04:05 — Joining CNN’s Crossfire
05:10 — Realisation: television > print for influence
05:31 — Washington elite social life and prominence
06:17 — Jon Stewart confrontation and fallout
07:33 — Career decline: PBS → MSNBC → failures
08:41 — Founding The Daily Caller
09:23 — Shift toward click-driven, sensational content
10:05 — “There is no line” — collapse of editorial standards
10:29 — Competition with Breitbart and hiring extremists
11:10 — Obsession with TV exposure
12:06 — Return to prominence with Fox News (2016)
12:49 — Embrace of Trump-era populism
13:06 — Private disdain vs public support for Trump
13:28 — Ratings peak and influence inside the White House
14:27 — Shift in ideology and embrace of conspiracies
15:08 — Patriot Purge and January 6 claims
15:36 — Dominion lawsuit and internal contradictions
16:06 — Exit from Fox News (2023)
16:28 — Move to Twitter/X and podcast dominance
17:00 — Increasing focus on antisemitic themes
17:46 — Controversial guests (e.g. Churchill revisionism)
18:00 — Interview with Nick Fuentes
18:16 — Selective questioning and double standards
19:00 — Personal continuity vs ideological transformation
19:22 — Reinvention as anti-elite populist
19:54 — Turn toward fringe conspiracy content
20:14 — Carlson as symbol of media degradation
20:37 — Comparison to historical demagogues
21:27 — Parallel with Joseph Sobran’s trajectory
21:47 — Ongoing political influence despite setbacks
22:00 — Conclusion: enduring opportunism and audience-first approach

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]]> 1387 The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan https://quillette.com/2026/02/04/heir-jordan-the-most-american-king-abdullah-of-jordan-aaron-magid-review/ Aaron Magid's biography examines how Jordan's King Abdullah has navigated 25 years of regional turmoil through Western alliances and survival. Written by Michael M. Rosen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:04:00 -0000 full Quillette Aaron Magid's biography examines how Jordan's King Abdullah has navigated 25 years of regional turmoil through Western alliances and survival. Written by Michael M. Rosen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Aaron Magid's biography examines how Jordan's King Abdullah has navigated 25 years of regional turmoil through Western alliances and survival.


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]]> 850 Kissinger and Cambodia https://quillette.com/2023/12/07/kissinger-and-cambodia/ Henry Kissinger’s policies influenced Cambodia’s fate, but they alone did not cause the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:36:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Lachlan Peters; read by William Laing. Henry Kissinger’s policies influenced Cambodia’s fate, but they alone did not cause the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Henry Kissinger’s policies influenced Cambodia’s fate, but they alone did not cause the rise of the Khmer Rouge.

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]]> 2089 Erasing the Word 'Woman' This presentation is written and narrated by Dr Karleen Gribble, a researcher specialising in maternal and child health with particular expertise in breastfeeding and lactation policy. Dr Gribble argues that the replacement of sex-based language like "women," "mothers," and "breastfeeding" with gender-neutral terms like "pregnant people," "birthing bodies," and "chest feeding" in healthcare represents a failure of evidence-based medicine, cultural imperialism, and abuse of institutional power. She traces how this language shift originated in the United States around 2010–15 and spread globally through academic journals, publishers, health organisations, and funding bodies. She contends that these changes are being implemented without any research demonstrating benefits, while the limited existing studies show women find the language confusing, offensive, or dehumanising. Dr Gribble argues this is particularly problematic because it violates public health principles requiring clear communication, may harm vulnerable women with low health literacy, and imposes Western gender ideology on non-Western cultures. She documents how researchers and health professionals who question this shift face professional retaliation, and how her own research proposals to study the impact of desexed language were rejected as offensive. Dr Gribble calls for urgent research on the actual health impacts of this language change and a return to evidence-based practice that prioritises clear, dignified communication in women's healthcare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:57:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by Karleen Gribble This presentation is written and narrated by Dr Karleen Gribble, a researcher specialising in maternal and child health with particular expertise in breastfeeding and lactation policy. Dr Gribble argues that the replacement of sex-based language like "women," "mothers," and "breastfeeding" with gender-neutral terms like "pregnant people," "birthing bodies," and "chest feeding" in healthcare represents a failure of evidence-based medicine, cultural imperialism, and abuse of institutional power. She traces how this language shift originated in the United States around 2010–15 and spread globally through academic journals, publishers, health organisations, and funding bodies. She contends that these changes are being implemented without any research demonstrating benefits, while the limited existing studies show women find the language confusing, offensive, or dehumanising. Dr Gribble argues this is particularly problematic because it violates public health principles requiring clear communication, may harm vulnerable women with low health literacy, and imposes Western gender ideology on non-Western cultures. She documents how researchers and health professionals who question this shift face professional retaliation, and how her own research proposals to study the impact of desexed language were rejected as offensive. Dr Gribble calls for urgent research on the actual health impacts of this language change and a return to evidence-based practice that prioritises clear, dignified communication in women's healthcare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This presentation is written and narrated by Dr Karleen Gribble, a researcher specialising in maternal and child health with particular expertise in breastfeeding and lactation policy.

Dr Gribble argues that the replacement of sex-based language like "women," "mothers," and "breastfeeding" with gender-neutral terms like "pregnant people," "birthing bodies," and "chest feeding" in healthcare represents a failure of evidence-based medicine, cultural imperialism, and abuse of institutional power. She traces how this language shift originated in the United States around 2010–15 and spread globally through academic journals, publishers, health organisations, and funding bodies.

She contends that these changes are being implemented without any research demonstrating benefits, while the limited existing studies show women find the language confusing, offensive, or dehumanising. Dr Gribble argues this is particularly problematic because it violates public health principles requiring clear communication, may harm vulnerable women with low health literacy, and imposes Western gender ideology on non-Western cultures. She documents how researchers and health professionals who question this shift face professional retaliation, and how her own research proposals to study the impact of desexed language were rejected as offensive.

Dr Gribble calls for urgent research on the actual health impacts of this language change and a return to evidence-based practice that prioritises clear, dignified communication in women's healthcare.

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]]> 2767 Progressive Moral Reasoning and Iran’s Revolt https://quillette.com/2026/02/03/progressive-moral-reasoning-and-irans-revolt/ Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order. By Roohola Ramezani Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:26:00 -0000 full Quillette Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order. By Roohola Ramezani Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order.


By Roohola Ramezani

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]]> 1201 Islamism: Shooting the Messenger The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:12:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out.

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]]> 847 The Mediocrity Feedback Loop https://quillette.com/2025/07/22/the-mediocrity-feedback-loop-28-years-later-review-alex-garland-danny-boyle/ If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:03:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Charlotte Allen. Read by William Laing. If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much.

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]]> 1503 The Sexual Paradise That Never Was https://quillette.com/2025/12/30/the-sexual-paradise-that-never-was-margaret-mead-samoa/ How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:17:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Patrick Whittle; read by Iona Italia How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked.

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]]> 2106 The Forgotten Ford https://quillette.com/2025/06/24/the-forgotten-ford-harrison-silent-film-cinema-hollywood/ Before Han Solo and Indiana Jones, there was another Harrison Ford, a star of silent cinema. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:38:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Christian Kriticos; read by William Laing. Before Han Solo and Indiana Jones, there was another Harrison Ford, a star of silent cinema. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Before Han Solo and Indiana Jones, there was another Harrison Ford, a star of silent cinema.

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]]> 1485 ICE Crackdown Backfires Like Daryl Gates' LAPD Era https://quillette.com/2026/01/26/who-got-the-camera-trump-immigration/ The article "Who Got the Camera?" by Dilan Esper recalls Los Angeles policing debates in the 1980s-90s: high crime (gangs, drugs, homelessness) versus claims of LAPD brutality under Chief Daryl Gates, who treated policing like war and used extreme tactics. It details the 1991 Rodney King incident: King, a felon intoxicated during a high-speed chase (up to 117 mph), was beaten by four LAPD officers with batons and a taser. Neighbor George Holliday's camcorder video—showing prolonged punishment, not defense—shifted public opinion. Tough-on-crime supporters rejected brutality; Gates was ousted, riots followed a state acquittal, and two officers got federal prison time. Author argues cameras (now ubiquitous, including bodycams) aid good cops by showcasing professionalism but expose bad ones, ending the "code of silence." Parallels to 2026: Trump's second-term ICE raids use masked agents in cities, arresting citizens/residents, beating immigrants, blocking filming, roughing protesters, and shooting two civilians dead in Minneapolis streets within weeks. Right-wing defenses (victim disobedience, threats) echo 1991 but fail against video evidence, evoking natural revulsion like family separations did in 2020. Polls confirm backlash: Trump's immigration approval fell from +9 (Aug 2025) to -20 (Jan 20, Rasmussen); YouGov shows more support than opposition for abolishing ICE; over 1/3 of Trump voters back deportation goals but not methods (Politico). Public wants secure borders without cruelty; midterms loom as reminder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:14:00 -0000 full Quillette The article "Who Got the Camera?" by Dilan Esper recalls Los Angeles policing debates in the 1980s-90s: high crime (gangs, drugs, homelessness) versus claims of LAPD brutality under Chief Daryl Gates, who treated policing like war and used extreme tactics. It details the 1991 Rodney King incident: King, a felon intoxicated during a high-speed chase (up to 117 mph), was beaten by four LAPD officers with batons and a taser. Neighbor George Holliday's camcorder video—showing prolonged punishment, not defense—shifted public opinion. Tough-on-crime supporters rejected brutality; Gates was ousted, riots followed a state acquittal, and two officers got federal prison time. Author argues cameras (now ubiquitous, including bodycams) aid good cops by showcasing professionalism but expose bad ones, ending the "code of silence." Parallels to 2026: Trump's second-term ICE raids use masked agents in cities, arresting citizens/residents, beating immigrants, blocking filming, roughing protesters, and shooting two civilians dead in Minneapolis streets within weeks. Right-wing defenses (victim disobedience, threats) echo 1991 but fail against video evidence, evoking natural revulsion like family separations did in 2020. Polls confirm backlash: Trump's immigration approval fell from +9 (Aug 2025) to -20 (Jan 20, Rasmussen); YouGov shows more support than opposition for abolishing ICE; over 1/3 of Trump voters back deportation goals but not methods (Politico). Public wants secure borders without cruelty; midterms loom as reminder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The article "Who Got the Camera?" by Dilan Esper recalls Los Angeles policing debates in the 1980s-90s: high crime (gangs, drugs, homelessness) versus claims of LAPD brutality under Chief Daryl Gates, who treated policing like war and used extreme tactics.


It details the 1991 Rodney King incident: King, a felon intoxicated during a high-speed chase (up to 117 mph), was beaten by four LAPD officers with batons and a taser. Neighbor George Holliday's camcorder video—showing prolonged punishment, not defense—shifted public opinion. Tough-on-crime supporters rejected brutality; Gates was ousted, riots followed a state acquittal, and two officers got federal prison time.


Author argues cameras (now ubiquitous, including bodycams) aid good cops by showcasing professionalism but expose bad ones, ending the "code of silence."


Parallels to 2026: Trump's second-term ICE raids use masked agents in cities, arresting citizens/residents, beating immigrants, blocking filming, roughing protesters, and shooting two civilians dead in Minneapolis streets within weeks. Right-wing defenses (victim disobedience, threats) echo 1991 but fail against video evidence, evoking natural revulsion like family separations did in 2020.


Polls confirm backlash: Trump's immigration approval fell from +9 (Aug 2025) to -20 (Jan 20, Rasmussen); YouGov shows more support than opposition for abolishing ICE; over 1/3 of Trump voters back deportation goals but not methods (Politico).


Public wants secure borders without cruelty; midterms loom as reminder.

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]]> 615 Censoring John and Yoko https://quillette.com/2025/08/28/censoring-john-and-yoko-lennon-ono/ A new boxset edits out one of John Lennon’s most controversial songs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:12:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Christian Kriticos; read by William Laing. A new boxset edits out one of John Lennon’s most controversial songs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A new boxset edits out one of John Lennon’s most controversial songs.

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]]> 1332 The Gentle Wildness of Tasmania Tasmania has all the majesty of other windswept high-latitude places, but it has always been less barren, more hospitable, more generous in its beauty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:10:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by Iona Italia Tasmania has all the majesty of other windswept high-latitude places, but it has always been less barren, more hospitable, more generous in its beauty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tasmania has all the majesty of other windswept high-latitude places, but it has always been less barren, more hospitable, more generous in its beauty.

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]]> 1310 Among Savage Tribes https://quillette.com/2025/12/28/among-savage-tribes-napoleon-chagnon-anthropology/ Napoleon Chagnon documented a society in which violent men enjoyed greater reproductive and marital success. Some of his academic colleagues never forgave him for it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:10:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Peggy Sastre; read by Iona Italia. Napoleon Chagnon documented a society in which violent men enjoyed greater reproductive and marital success. Some of his academic colleagues never forgave him for it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Napoleon Chagnon documented a society in which violent men enjoyed greater reproductive and marital success. Some of his academic colleagues never forgave him for it.

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]]> 1007 The Warmth of Collectivism https://quillette.com/2026/01/12/the-warmth-of-collectivism-mamdani-nyc/ Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:06:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress.

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]]> 623 Sad Radicals https://quillette.com/2018/12/11/sad-radicals/ As radicals, we lived in what I call a paradigm of suspicion, one of the malignant ideas that emerge as a result of intellectual in-breeding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:02:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Conor Barnes; read by Iona Italia. As radicals, we lived in what I call a paradigm of suspicion, one of the malignant ideas that emerge as a result of intellectual in-breeding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices As radicals, we lived in what I call a paradigm of suspicion, one of the malignant ideas that emerge as a result of intellectual in-breeding.

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]]> 1215 Yukio Mishima: Japan’s Cultural Martyr https://quillette.com/2019/12/11/yukio-mishima-japans-cultural-martyr/ Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:08:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Andrew Rankin; read by William Laing. Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before.

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]]> 1049 Bondi Attack Exposes Australia's Multicultural Blind Spot https://quillette.com/2025/12/23/australias-selective-blindness-bondi-massacre-islam-antisemitism/ The Bondi terrorist attack reveals how Australia's reluctance to discuss Islamic antisemitism and ideological motivations undermines cohesion. By Alan Davison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:02:00 -0000 full Quillette The Bondi terrorist attack reveals how Australia's reluctance to discuss Islamic antisemitism and ideological motivations undermines cohesion. By Alan Davison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The Bondi terrorist attack reveals how Australia's reluctance to discuss Islamic antisemitism and ideological motivations undermines cohesion. By Alan Davison.

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]]> 759 The Infinite Reopening of History https://quillette.com/2025/12/20/the-infinite-reopening-of-history-activism-decolonisation/ Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:55:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history.

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]]> 690 Game, Set, Match https://quillette.com/2023/03/24/game-set-match/ Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:33:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Marilyn Simon. Read by Iona Italia. Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays.

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]]> 1191 To Winter, With Love https://quillette.com/2024/02/13/to-winter-with-love/ The cold allows me to feel alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:34:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Marilyn Simon. Read by Iona Italia. The cold allows me to feel alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The cold allows me to feel alive.

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]]> 688 The Hatred We Must Name We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price. By Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:17:00 -0000 full Quillette We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price. By Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price.

By Iona Italia.

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]]> 427 Bondi Was Not a Surprise https://quillette.com/2025/12/15/bondi-was-not-a-surprise/ The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable. By Jack Pinczewski Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:58:00 -0000 full Quillette The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable. By Jack Pinczewski Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable. By Jack Pinczewski

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]]> 530 The New Information Wars https://quillette.com/2025/12/09/the-new-information-wars-social-media-ban-online-safety/ Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:58:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.

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]]> 739 What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray Blanchard https://quillette.com/2019/11/06/what-is-autogynephilia-an-interview-with-dr-ray-blanchard/ Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:00:00 -0000 full Quillette Louise Perry interviews Ray Blanchard; read by Iona Italia. Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem.

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]]> 1068 Iran's Two Ticking Clocks https://quillette.com/2024/12/23/irans-two-ticking-clocks/ While the nuclear breakout clock ticks, time may also be expiring on the Ayatollah regime’s grip on the region. The two countdowns are interconnected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:00:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Joseph Nichol; read by Iona Italia. While the nuclear breakout clock ticks, time may also be expiring on the Ayatollah regime’s grip on the region. The two countdowns are interconnected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices While the nuclear breakout clock ticks, time may also be expiring on the Ayatollah regime’s grip on the region. The two countdowns are interconnected.

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]]> 795 Ancient Indian Tradition—Or Twentieth-Century European Export? https://quillette.com/2025/07/31/ancient-indian-tradition-or-twentieth-century-european-export/ Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:00:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Carl von Siemens. Read by Iona Italia. Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual.

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]]> 2033 The Melbourne Crimewave https://quillette.com/2025/10/11/the-melbourne-crimewave-australia-victoria-youth-gangs/ Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice. By ⁠Andrew Bushnell⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:50:00 -0000 full Quillette Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice. By ⁠Andrew Bushnell⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice. By ⁠Andrew Bushnell⁠

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]]> 1062 Easy Rider: 50 Years Looking for America—A Review https://quillette.com/2020/04/21/easy-rider-50-years-looking-for-america-a-review/ Easy Rider is an important movie—much more important than a simple measure of its quality would suggest—which is probably why the American Film Institute, among others, continues to rate it so highly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:00:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Graham Daseler. Read by Iona Italia. Easy Rider is an important movie—much more important than a simple measure of its quality would suggest—which is probably why the American Film Institute, among others, continues to rate it so highly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Easy Rider is an important movie—much more important than a simple measure of its quality would suggest—which is probably why the American Film Institute, among others, continues to rate it so highly.

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]]> 1207 The Murder of Iryna Zarutska https://quillette.com/2025/09/13/the-murder-of-iryna-zarutska-media-bias-urban-crime-disorder/ ⁠Jukka Savolainen⁠ 's article "The Murder of Iryna Zarutska — Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?" on Quillette explores the reasons behind the heightened attention the murder of Iryna Zarutska received in conservative circles and the muted response from mainstream media. Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee, was killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in a crime caught on CCTV, sparking outrage primarily among conservatives. The article posits that this response is due to three interrelated concerns: media bias, urban disorder, and the victim's characteristics. It argues that mainstream media often report crimes through a racial lens that can distort public perception, amplifying cases where victims are from minority communities while neglecting others. The murder was seen as emblematic of urban disorder in the post-George Floyd era, highlighting issues of leniency and the decline in policing standards. Zarutska's story resonated because she was perceived as an innocent, industrious immigrant whose murder by a repeat offender epitomized a failure of the judicial and social system. The article contrasts media and societal responses to different victim profiles based on ideological lines, highlighting differences in moral priorities between conservatives and progressives. It suggests that the coverage of Zarutska's murder exposes broader cultural divides, with conservatives emphasizing fairness and justice, while progressives focus more on care and liberation, often for marginalized groups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:18:00 -0000 full Quillette ⁠Jukka Savolainen⁠ 's article "The Murder of Iryna Zarutska — Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?" on Quillette explores the reasons behind the heightened attention the murder of Iryna Zarutska received in conservative circles and the muted response from mainstream media. Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee, was killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in a crime caught on CCTV, sparking outrage primarily among conservatives. The article posits that this response is due to three interrelated concerns: media bias, urban disorder, and the victim's characteristics. It argues that mainstream media often report crimes through a racial lens that can distort public perception, amplifying cases where victims are from minority communities while neglecting others. The murder was seen as emblematic of urban disorder in the post-George Floyd era, highlighting issues of leniency and the decline in policing standards. Zarutska's story resonated because she was perceived as an innocent, industrious immigrant whose murder by a repeat offender epitomized a failure of the judicial and social system. The article contrasts media and societal responses to different victim profiles based on ideological lines, highlighting differences in moral priorities between conservatives and progressives. It suggests that the coverage of Zarutska's murder exposes broader cultural divides, with conservatives emphasizing fairness and justice, while progressives focus more on care and liberation, often for marginalized groups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ⁠Jukka Savolainen⁠ 's article "The Murder of Iryna Zarutska — Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?" on Quillette explores the reasons behind the heightened attention the murder of Iryna Zarutska received in conservative circles and the muted response from mainstream media. Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee, was killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in a crime caught on CCTV, sparking outrage primarily among conservatives.


The article posits that this response is due to three interrelated concerns: media bias, urban disorder, and the victim's characteristics. It argues that mainstream media often report crimes through a racial lens that can distort public perception, amplifying cases where victims are from minority communities while neglecting others. The murder was seen as emblematic of urban disorder in the post-George Floyd era, highlighting issues of leniency and the decline in policing standards. Zarutska's story resonated because she was perceived as an innocent, industrious immigrant whose murder by a repeat offender epitomized a failure of the judicial and social system.


The article contrasts media and societal responses to different victim profiles based on ideological lines, highlighting differences in moral priorities between conservatives and progressives. It suggests that the coverage of Zarutska's murder exposes broader cultural divides, with conservatives emphasizing fairness and justice, while progressives focus more on care and liberation, often for marginalized groups.

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]]> 783 Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time https://quillette.com/2023/09/18/charles-darwin-the-greatest-science-writer-of-all-time/ The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:00:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Lawrence Krauss; read by Iona Italia. The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.

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]]> 883 We Need to Talk About Trans-Identified Killers https://quillette.com/2025/10/16/we-need-to-talk-about-trans-identified-killers/ The list of violent criminals who imagine they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is growing. By Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:26:00 -0000 full Quillette The list of violent criminals who imagine they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is growing. By Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The list of violent criminals who imagine they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is growing. By Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman

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]]> 1220 Fleeing South Africa https://quillette.com/2025/06/10/fleeing-south-africa-boer-trump/ The situation of South African “whites” is worse than Donald Trump's critics are willing to acknowledge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:02:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by David Benatar; read by Iona Italia. The situation of South African “whites” is worse than Donald Trump's critics are willing to acknowledge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The situation of South African “whites” is worse than Donald Trump's critics are willing to acknowledge.

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]]> 876 Two Hundred Years of Stendhal https://quillette.com/2022/10/05/two-hundred-years-of-stendhal/ 2022 marked the bicentennial of the pseudonym’s transformation from literary dabbler into one of the greatest novelists of the modern age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:35:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Robert Zaretsky. Read by Iona Italia. 2022 marked the bicentennial of the pseudonym’s transformation from literary dabbler into one of the greatest novelists of the modern age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 2022 marked the bicentennial of the pseudonym’s transformation from literary dabbler into one of the greatest novelists of the modern age.

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]]> 1181 Making Fiction Boring The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books. By ⁠Adam Szetela⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:23:00 -0000 full Quillette The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books. By ⁠Adam Szetela⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books.

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]]> 1207 The Malpractice of Menopausal Medicine Reveals a Broken Medical System Healthcare for menopause and perimenopause is the single most patient-betraying area of medicine—but it has plenty of company. By Amy Alkon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 17 Oct 2025 03:41:00 -0000 full Quillette Healthcare for menopause and perimenopause is the single most patient-betraying area of medicine—but it has plenty of company. By Amy Alkon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Healthcare for menopause and perimenopause is the single most patient-betraying area of medicine—but it has plenty of company.


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]]> 1741 Greta Thunberg’s Fifteen Minutes https://quillette.com/2025/06/28/greta-thunbergs-fifteen-minutes/ The climate activist’s simplistic slogans and hectoring style proved effective when she was still a child. But now that she’s an adult, the act is losing its shine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:33:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Allan Stratton; read by William Laing. The climate activist’s simplistic slogans and hectoring style proved effective when she was still a child. But now that she’s an adult, the act is losing its shine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The climate activist’s simplistic slogans and hectoring style proved effective when she was still a child. But now that she’s an adult, the act is losing its shine.

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]]> 1017 Israel’s Hard-Won Victory https://quillette.com/2025/10/16/israels-hard-won-victory/ The Jewish state has secured its borders, recovered all living hostages, and put its enemies on notice as to what awaits them if they attempt a reprise of 7 October. By ⁠The Quillette Editorial Board⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:14:00 -0000 full Quillette The Jewish state has secured its borders, recovered all living hostages, and put its enemies on notice as to what awaits them if they attempt a reprise of 7 October. By ⁠The Quillette Editorial Board⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The Jewish state has secured its borders, recovered all living hostages, and put its enemies on notice as to what awaits them if they attempt a reprise of 7 October. By ⁠The Quillette Editorial Board⁠.

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]]> 579 The Art of Middle Eastern Pillow Talk https://quillette.com/2025/10/01/the-art-of-middle-eastern-pillow-talk/ Amir and I had very different ideas about which side had committed a ‘genocide.’ But it didn’t stop us from being civil. By David Christopher Kaufman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 16 Oct 2025 01:50:00 -0000 The Art of Middle Eastern Pillow Talk full Quillette Amir and I had very different ideas about which side had committed a ‘genocide.’ But it didn’t stop us from being civil. By David Christopher Kaufman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Amir and I had very different ideas about which side had committed a ‘genocide.’ But it didn’t stop us from being civil. By David Christopher Kaufman.

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]]> 509 All at Sea https://quillette.com/2025/10/10/all-at-sea-greta-thunberg-gaza-flotilla-israel/ Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip to Gaza was a confused piece of activist theatre of a kind that is sadly very much in vogue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:46:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip to Gaza was a confused piece of activist theatre of a kind that is sadly very much in vogue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip to Gaza was a confused piece of activist theatre of a kind that is sadly very much in vogue.

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]]> 669 It’s No Longer 1937... https://quillette.com/2025/06/10/its-no-longer-1937-disney-snow-white-seven-dwarfs-rachel-zegler-gal-gadot/ Disney’s awful new Snow White adaptation fails to recreate or even understand the story it is trying to tell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 10 Oct 2025 02:03:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Charlotte Allen. Read by William Laing. Disney’s awful new Snow White adaptation fails to recreate or even understand the story it is trying to tell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Disney’s awful new Snow White adaptation fails to recreate or even understand the story it is trying to tell.

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]]> 1737 Why We Should Read Nietzsche https://quillette.com/2019/04/22/why-we-should-read-nietzsche/ My sense is that Nietzsche is best understood as a radical individualist; one who insists passionately that our duty in life is to become what we are. But what kind of person is that? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:38:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Matt McManus; read by Iona Italia. My sense is that Nietzsche is best understood as a radical individualist; one who insists passionately that our duty in life is to become what we are. But what kind of person is that? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices My sense is that Nietzsche is best understood as a radical individualist; one who insists passionately that our duty in life is to become what we are. But what kind of person is that?

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]]> 1074 No, You Don’t Have a Disorder, You Have Feelings When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:54:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Lisa Marchiano. Read by Iona Italia. When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative.

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]]> 823 Why Not Polygamy? Examining the Case for Legalisation https://quillette.com/2022/05/28/why-not-polygamy/ Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:10:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Cheryl Mendelson; read by William Laing. Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress?

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]]> 2049 George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the 'Dirty-Handkerchief Side of Life' https://quillette.com/2020/10/08/george-orwell-henry-miller-and-the-dirty-handkerchief-side-of-life/ Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 29 Sep 2025 03:42:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Matt Johnson. Read by William Laing. Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality.

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]]> 1414 How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’? https://quillette.com/2023/08/01/how-accurate-is-christopher-nolans-oppenheimer/ A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:02:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Robert Zubrin. Read by William Laing. A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.

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]]> 809 Huxley, Burroughs, and the Church of Scientology https://quillette.com/2021/07/06/huxley-burroughs-and-the-church-of-scientology/ Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:59:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by David S. Wills. Read by William Laing. Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman.

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]]> 1254 Brainrot, Not Ideology https://quillette.com/2025/09/13/brainrot-not-ideology-charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-discord-memes/ The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth like Tyler Robinson more than ideology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:14:00 -0000 full Quillette The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth like Tyler Robinson more than ideology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth like Tyler Robinson more than ideology.

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]]> 535 Pride and Prejudice The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 14 Sep 2025 23:15:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Steve Salerno. Read by William Laing. The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.

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]]> 1771 Gaza and the Collapse of Truth-Seeking The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism by Gary Geipel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:52:00 -0000 full Quillette The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism by Gary Geipel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism by Gary Geipel.

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]]> 840 Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist https://quillette.com/2021/03/27/thomas-sowell-tragic-optimist/ In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:02:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Samuel Kronen; read by Iona Italia. In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot.

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]]> 2882 Falling Fertility: A Crisis We Refuse to Face https://quillette.com/2025/06/13/falling-fertility-a-crisis-we-refuse-to-face-demographics/ Fertility decline is not merely a demographic curiosity—it is a structural challenge with civilisational implications. So why are people so reluctant to take it seriously? By Andrew Glover Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0000 full Quillette Fertility decline is not merely a demographic curiosity—it is a structural challenge with civilisational implications. So why are people so reluctant to take it seriously? By Andrew Glover Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fertility decline is not merely a demographic curiosity—it is a structural challenge with civilisational implications. So why are people so reluctant to take it seriously?

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]]> 674 In Defence of Absolute Truth https://quillette.com/2021/06/30/in-defence-of-absolute-truth/ By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:06:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Alan S. Rome; read by William Laing. By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other.

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]]> 1802 Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America https://quillette.com/2025/09/02/mahmood-mamdani-wants-to-dismantle-america-israel-zohran/ Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:55:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust.


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]]> 715 Fragments Against the Ruins In his deliberately archaic new rendition of Homer’s epic, Jeffrey Duban takes a defiant stand against the modernisation of classical literature in defence of a disappearing tradition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:14:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by Jaspreet Singh Boparai In his deliberately archaic new rendition of Homer’s epic, Jeffrey Duban takes a defiant stand against the modernisation of classical literature in defence of a disappearing tradition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In his deliberately archaic new rendition of Homer’s epic, Jeffrey Duban takes a defiant stand against the modernisation of classical literature in defence of a disappearing tradition.

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]]> 1749 ‘Shameless Beyond the Curse of Shamelessness’ https://quillette.com/2024/12/12/shameless-beyond-the-curse-of-shamelessness/ In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:47:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Joan Smith. Read by Iona Italia. In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile.

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]]> 1502 Naive Protest and Calculated Terror https://quillette.com/2025/08/26/naive-protest-and-calculated-terror-iran-australia-terrorism-antisemitism/ The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is time we confronted this danger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:01:00 -0000 full Quillette The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is time we confronted this danger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is time we confronted this danger.

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]]> 458 Twilight of the Satyrs https://quillette.com/2021/08/11/twilight-of-the-satyrs/ Charlotte Allen examines how Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey's sexual misconduct allegations led to both men being cancelled and explores the broader cultural shift from the sexual liberation of the 1960s to #MeToo's scrutiny of male literary figures and their treatment of women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:02:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Charlotte Allen. Read by Iona Italia. Charlotte Allen examines how Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey's sexual misconduct allegations led to both men being cancelled and explores the broader cultural shift from the sexual liberation of the 1960s to #MeToo's scrutiny of male literary figures and their treatment of women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Charlotte Allen examines how Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey's sexual misconduct allegations led to both men being cancelled and explores the broader cultural shift from the sexual liberation of the 1960s to #MeToo's scrutiny of male literary figures and their treatment of women.


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]]> 2948 The Limits of Radical Protest https://quillette.com/2022/08/05/the-limits-of-radical-protest/ Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 26 Aug 2025 02:20:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Matt Johnson. Read by Iona Italia. Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements.

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]]> 1276 Ancient DNA and the Return of a Disgraced Theory https://quillette.com/2025/05/28/ancient-dna-and-the-return-of-a-disgraced-theory/ This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:38:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Tristan S. Rapp. Read by Iona Italia. This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better.

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]]> 1580 The Sensitivity Era https://quillette.com/2025/08/19/the-sensitivity-era-literature-publishing/ Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov. Robert Huddleston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:51:00 -0000 full Quillette Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov. Robert Huddleston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov.

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]]> 808 The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell https://quillette.com/2023/09/15/the-cancellation-of-bertrand-russell/ Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:43:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by James Huffman. Read by William Laing. Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.

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]]> 782 The Problem Is Islam—Not Islamism https://quillette.com/blog/2024/08/23/its-islam-not-islamism/ The problem here is not a subset of Islamic thought, but the fundamentals of Islam itself. By Obaid Omer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:52:00 -0000 full Quillette The problem here is not a subset of Islamic thought, but the fundamentals of Islam itself. By Obaid Omer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The problem here is not a subset of Islamic thought, but the fundamentals of Islam itself. By Obaid Omer

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]]> 369 Rethinking “Harm Reduction” Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:22:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Christopher Calton. Read by William Laing. Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray.

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]]> 1849 McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring https://quillette.com/2023/06/14/mcmasters-imaginary-sex-ring/ In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 06 Aug 2025 05:00:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Jonathan Kay. Read by Iona Italia. In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen.

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]]> 5177 Against Palestinian Statehood https://quillette.com/2025/08/05/against-palestinian-statehood/ Nurturing an alternative power structure in this kind of politically stunted society will be the work of generations. It can’t be summoned into existence by Western leaders seeking to appease domestic constituencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:44:00 -0000 Against Palestinian Statehood full Quillette Against Palestinian Statehood Nurturing an alternative power structure in this kind of politically stunted society will be the work of generations. It can’t be summoned into existence by Western leaders seeking to appease domestic constituencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Nurturing an alternative power structure in this kind of politically stunted society will be the work of generations. It can’t be summoned into existence by Western leaders seeking to appease domestic constituencies.

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]]> 522 Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had https://quillette.com/2023/07/11/milan-kundera-the-nobel-prize-for-literature-winner-we-never-had/ Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:09:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Robin Ashenden. Read by Iona Italia. Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale.

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]]> 1349 His Satanic Majesty Retires https://quillette.com/2025/07/25/his-satanic-majesty-ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath/ A tribute to the man who helped to revolutionise modern rock music and reality TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:34:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Dave Thompson. Read by William Laing. A tribute to the man who helped to revolutionise modern rock music and reality TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A tribute to the man who helped to revolutionise modern rock music and reality TV.

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]]> 1181 The Vanishing of Peng Shuai https://quillette.com/2021/11/20/the-vanishing-of-peng-shuai/ Whatever really happened between Zhang and Peng, the truth is that they were both already victims, having been raised in a society that completely denies the importance of the individual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 28 Jul 2025 23:36:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Aaron Sarin. Read by Iona Italia. Whatever really happened between Zhang and Peng, the truth is that they were both already victims, having been raised in a society that completely denies the importance of the individual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Whatever really happened between Zhang and Peng, the truth is that they were both already victims, having been raised in a society that completely denies the importance of the individual.

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]]> 565 Why the Islamic Republic Must Fall https://quillette.com/2025/07/08/why-the-islamic-republic-must-fall-israel-iran/ As a dissident Iranian, I support Israel’s efforts to weaken the Ayatollahs’ regime. I’m not alone in this. By Armin Navabi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:33:00 -0000 full Quillette As a dissident Iranian, I support Israel’s efforts to weaken the Ayatollahs’ regime. I’m not alone in this. By Armin Navabi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices As a dissident Iranian, I support Israel’s efforts to weaken the Ayatollahs’ regime. I’m not alone in this.

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]]> 1028 The Soldier and the Revolutionary https://quillette.com/2025/07/25/the-soldier-and-the-revolutionary-india-chandra-bose-world-war-ii/ The contrasting lives and ambitions of two major figures in the fight for Indian Independence: General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya (“Timmy”) and Subhas Chandras Bose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:08:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Phil Craig. Read by Iona Italia. The contrasting lives and ambitions of two major figures in the fight for Indian Independence: General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya (“Timmy”) and Subhas Chandras Bose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The contrasting lives and ambitions of two major figures in the fight for Indian Independence: General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya (“Timmy”) and Subhas Chandras Bose.

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]]> 3019 Too Much Monkey Business https://quillette.com/2025/07/21/too-much-monkey-business-scopes-monkey-trial/ The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 24 Jul 2025 06:29:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Graham Daseler. Read by William Laing. The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today.

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]]> 2025 Glamourising Violence at Glastonbury https://quillette.com/2025/07/04/glamourising-violence-at-glastonbury-vylan-idf-israel-palestine/ Bob Vylan’s “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury reveal how Britain’s economic despair has radicalised a generation and threatens to revive ancient hatreds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:57:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. Bob Vylan’s “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury reveal how Britain’s economic despair has radicalised a generation and threatens to revive ancient hatreds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Bob Vylan’s “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury reveal how Britain’s economic despair has radicalised a generation and threatens to revive ancient hatreds.

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]]> 763 Are We Dating the Same Guy? https://quillette.com/2023/09/21/are-we-dating-the-same-guy/ Women create whisper networks to keep themselves safe from antisocial male behaviour. But unfortunately, such networks can be highjacked by our antisocial female peers. By ⁠Amy Eileen Hamm⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:34:00 -0000 full Quillette Women create whisper networks to keep themselves safe from antisocial male behaviour. But unfortunately, such networks can be highjacked by our antisocial female peers. By ⁠Amy Eileen Hamm⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Women create whisper networks to keep themselves safe from antisocial male behaviour. But unfortunately, such networks can be highjacked by our antisocial female peers. By ⁠Amy Eileen Hamm⁠

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]]> 448 Red Spies and Lies https://quillette.com/2025/03/23/red-spies-and-lies-mccarthyism-communism-clay-risen-review/ Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:52:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Ronald Radosh. Read by William Laing. Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.


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]]> 2430 Traitors to the Human Mind https://quillette.com/2016/02/03/pinkwashing-and-traitors-to-the-human-mind/ As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:50:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Jamie Palmer. Read by Iona Italia. As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane.

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]]> 1270 The Teaching Problem https://quillette.com/2025/07/14/the-teaching-problem-higher-education-john-tagg/ The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:06:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by John Tagg. Read by Iona Italia. The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model.

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]]> 1762 Conflicting Visions of Peace Netanyahu’s Nobel Prize gesture masks serious diplomatic divisions over Iran’s nuclear programme and the future of Gaza’s devastated population. Benny Morris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:59:00 -0000 full Quillette Netanyahu’s Nobel Prize gesture masks serious diplomatic divisions over Iran’s nuclear programme and the future of Gaza’s devastated population. Benny Morris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Netanyahu’s Nobel Prize gesture masks serious diplomatic divisions over Iran’s nuclear programme and the future of Gaza’s devastated population.

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]]> 802 Gonzo Bros https://quillette.com/2025/06/20/gonzo-bros-hunter-thompson-transference-masculinity-manosphere/ Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 10 Jul 2025 03:01:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Frank Celia. Read by William Laing. Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.

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]]> 2860 Purity, Profit, and Politics How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:57:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Steve Salerno. Read by Iona Italia. How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.


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]]> 2381 'Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello' by Helen Pluckrose Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:25:00 -0000 full Quillette Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day. Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day.

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]]> 1931 Intersectionality’s Cosmic Inquisitor https://quillette.com/2024/02/15/intersectionalitys-cosmic-inquisitor/ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:14:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Jonathan Kay. Read by Iona Italia. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back.

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]]> 3364 Gentrifying the Intifada https://quillette.com/2025/06/27/gentrifying-the-intifada-zohran-mamdani/ Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism appeals to the luxury beliefs of New York’s middle classes. If his preferred policies are implemented, New Yorkers will suffer—and the poorest of them will be most impacted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sat, 28 Jun 2025 02:52:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism appeals to the luxury beliefs of New York’s middle classes. If his preferred policies are implemented, New Yorkers will suffer—and the poorest of them will be most impacted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism appeals to the luxury beliefs of New York’s middle classes. If his preferred policies are implemented, New Yorkers will suffer—and the poorest of them will be most impacted.

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]]> 751 A Fragile Peace: Iran-Israel Update https://quillette.com/2025/06/24/a-fragile-peace-israel-trump/ The Israel-Iran conflict may already be over, following the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But the future is deeply uncertain. By Benny Morris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:47:00 -0000 full Quillette The Israel-Iran conflict may already be over, following the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But the future is deeply uncertain. By Benny Morris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The Israel-Iran conflict may already be over, following the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But the future is deeply uncertain. By Benny Morris.

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]]> 1345 The Two Middle Classes https://quillette.com/2020/02/27/the-two-middle-classes/ The struggle between the two middle classes is not just a matter of wealth and power, but also of retaining the social basis for democracy itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:11:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Joel Kotkin. Read by William Laing. The struggle between the two middle classes is not just a matter of wealth and power, but also of retaining the social basis for democracy itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The struggle between the two middle classes is not just a matter of wealth and power, but also of retaining the social basis for democracy itself.

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]]> 971 The Enlightenment’s Gravediggers https://quillette.com/2025/06/19/the-enlightenments-gravediggers-rousseau-zizek-anti-western/ When Westerners hate the West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Maarten Boudry. Read by Iona Italia. When Westerners hate the West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices When Westerners hate the West.

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]]> 1777 Destroying Iran’s Nuclear Arsenal https://quillette.com/2025/06/18/destroying-irans-nuclear-arsenal-israel-america/ Israel faces two major challenges: destroying the Iranian enrichment plant at Fordow and locating and eliminating the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium. For the first, it will need US assistance. By Benny Morris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 19 Jun 2025 11:30:00 -0000 Destroying Iran’s Nuclear Arsenal full Quillette Destroying Iran’s Nuclear Arsenal Israel faces two major challenges: destroying the Iranian enrichment plant at Fordow and locating and eliminating the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium. For the first, it will need US assistance. By Benny Morris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Israel faces two major challenges: destroying the Iranian enrichment plant at Fordow and locating and eliminating the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium. For the first, it will need US assistance. By Benny Morris.

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]]> 1344 Beheading the Snake https://quillette.com/2025/06/14/beheading-the-snake-israel-iran-netanyahu/ The Israeli attack on Iran is in line with its longstanding policy of never allowing its neighbouring enemies to acquire nuclear weapons. But it is also the latest episode in the wider war against Israel launched in late 2023 by Iran’s proxies. Written by Benny Morris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:46:00 -0000 Beheading the Snake full Quillette Beheading the Snake The Israeli attack on Iran is in line with its longstanding policy of never allowing its neighbouring enemies to acquire nuclear weapons. But it is also the latest episode in the wider war against Israel launched in late 2023 by Iran’s proxies. Written by Benny Morris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The Israeli attack on Iran is in line with its longstanding policy of never allowing its neighbouring enemies to acquire nuclear weapons. But it is also the latest episode in the wider war against Israel launched in late 2023 by Iran’s proxies. Written by Benny Morris.

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]]> 1145 The Globalised Intifada https://quillette.com/2025/06/11/the-globalised-intifada-palestine-gaza/ For at least some, globalising the Intifada means exporting the tactics of Hamas to the West, thus threatening peaceful liberal societies everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 15 Jun 2025 23:07:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. For at least some, globalising the Intifada means exporting the tactics of Hamas to the West, thus threatening peaceful liberal societies everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For at least some, globalising the Intifada means exporting the tactics of Hamas to the West, thus threatening peaceful liberal societies everywhere.

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]]> 734 Monogamy and the Making of Western Civilisation https://quillette.com/2025/02/26/monogamy-and-the-making-of-western-civilisation/ The institution of monogamy in Classical Greece may have led to a host of phenomena that shaped the modern West: from individualism and abstract thinking to liberalism and democracy. Written by ⁠James Kierstead.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0000 Monogamy and the Making of Western Civilisation full Quillette Monogamy and the Making of Western Civilisation The institution of monogamy in Classical Greece may have led to a host of phenomena that shaped the modern West: from individualism and abstract thinking to liberalism and democracy. Written by ⁠James Kierstead.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The institution of monogamy in Classical Greece may have led to a host of phenomena that shaped the modern West: from individualism and abstract thinking to liberalism and democracy. Written by ⁠James Kierstead.⁠

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]]> 845 Student Scapegoats https://quillette.com/2025/05/23/student-scapegoats-trump-f1-visas-higher-education/ The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:10:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by Carl Skutsch The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.

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]]> 905 Classical Liberalism Without Strong Gods https://quillette.com/2025/06/10/classical-liberalism-without-strong-gods-open-society-popper/ Why are liberal democracies facing a crisis of meaning? In this video, we explore Roger Partridge’s powerful defence of Karl Popper’s Open Society—a vision of liberalism based on freedom, tolerance, and civic engagement. As figures like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Jordan Peterson, and Peter Thiel call for a return to religion and nationalism, many argue that the West has lost its moral and spiritual foundation. But is abandoning liberalism the answer? Partridge argues that the real problem isn’t liberalism itself—but our failure to maintain the institutions and civic culture that once gave it meaning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:59:00 -0000 Classical Liberalism Without Strong Gods full Quillette Classical Liberalism Without Strong Gods Why are liberal democracies facing a crisis of meaning? In this video, we explore Roger Partridge’s powerful defence of Karl Popper’s Open Society—a vision of liberalism based on freedom, tolerance, and civic engagement. As figures like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Jordan Peterson, and Peter Thiel call for a return to religion and nationalism, many argue that the West has lost its moral and spiritual foundation. But is abandoning liberalism the answer? Partridge argues that the real problem isn’t liberalism itself—but our failure to maintain the institutions and civic culture that once gave it meaning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Why are liberal democracies facing a crisis of meaning? In this video, we explore Roger Partridge’s powerful defence of Karl Popper’s Open Society—a vision of liberalism based on freedom, tolerance, and civic engagement. As figures like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Jordan Peterson, and Peter Thiel call for a return to religion and nationalism, many argue that the West has lost its moral and spiritual foundation. But is abandoning liberalism the answer? Partridge argues that the real problem isn’t liberalism itself—but our failure to maintain the institutions and civic culture that once gave it meaning.

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]]> 1829 Christopher Hitchens, Anti-Identitarian https://quillette.com/2020/03/12/christopher-hitchens-anti-identitarian/ Hitchens didn’t just see how identity politics could warp a person’s ideas and principles—he understood that it could replace them altogether. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 30 May 2025 01:53:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Matt Johnson. Read by Iona Italia. Hitchens didn’t just see how identity politics could warp a person’s ideas and principles—he understood that it could replace them altogether. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hitchens didn’t just see how identity politics could warp a person’s ideas and principles—he understood that it could replace them altogether.

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]]> 917 'Roald Dahl and the Ethics of Art' by Iona Italia https://quillette.com/2023/02/21/roald-dahl-and-the-ethics-of-art/ The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 30 May 2025 01:52:00 -0000 'Roald Dahl and the Ethics of Art' by Iona Italia full Quillette Read by Iona Italia The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable.

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]]> 346 Too Many Moons https://quillette.com/2025/03/17/too-many-moons/ The article "Too Many Moons" by Lawrence M. Krauss discusses the recent recognition by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) of 128 new moons of Saturn, bringing its total to 274. This prompts questions about whether the term "moon" needs a more restrictive definition, similar to the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet. The article highlights the distinction between "regular" moons, which formed with the planet, and "irregular" moons, likely captured later by Saturn's gravity. With a proliferation of moons being recognized, the article suggests that the definition of what constitutes a moon might need to be reconsidered, potentially excluding very small or irregularly shaped objects Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 30 May 2025 00:12:00 -0000 Too Many Moons full Quillette Too Many Moons by Lawrence Krauss The article "Too Many Moons" by Lawrence M. Krauss discusses the recent recognition by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) of 128 new moons of Saturn, bringing its total to 274. This prompts questions about whether the term "moon" needs a more restrictive definition, similar to the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet. The article highlights the distinction between "regular" moons, which formed with the planet, and "irregular" moons, likely captured later by Saturn's gravity. With a proliferation of moons being recognized, the article suggests that the definition of what constitutes a moon might need to be reconsidered, potentially excluding very small or irregularly shaped objects Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The article "Too Many Moons" by Lawrence M. Krauss discusses the recent recognition by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) of 128 new moons of Saturn, bringing its total to 274. This prompts questions about whether the term "moon" needs a more restrictive definition, similar to the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet. The article highlights the distinction between "regular" moons, which formed with the planet, and "irregular" moons, likely captured later by Saturn's gravity. With a proliferation of moons being recognized, the article suggests that the definition of what constitutes a moon might need to be reconsidered, potentially excluding very small or irregularly shaped objects

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]]> 475 The Rationalism and Romanticism of John Stuart Mill https://quillette.com/2022/06/22/the-rationalism-and-romanticism-of-john-stuart-mill/ Two strands of Mill's philosophy were profoundly in conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 28 May 2025 23:55:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Laurie Wastell. Read by Iona Italia. Two strands of Mill's philosophy were profoundly in conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Two strands of Mill's philosophy were profoundly in conflict.

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]]> 1201 The Green Energy Delusion https://quillette.com/2025/03/04/the-green-energy-delusion/ The current approach to energy and environmental policy isn’t just unsustainable—it has put us on a collision course with reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 27 May 2025 03:31:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Paul Brown. Read by Iona Italia. The current approach to energy and environmental policy isn’t just unsustainable—it has put us on a collision course with reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The current approach to energy and environmental policy isn’t just unsustainable—it has put us on a collision course with reality.

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]]> 1528 Qatar: Futuristic City, Medieval Morals https://quillette.com/2025/05/20/qatar-futuristic-city-medieval-morals-trump/ Donald Trump has an opportunity to influence the Qatari monarchy away from supporting jihad and towards promoting peace. But will he take it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 26 May 2025 05:57:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. Donald Trump has an opportunity to influence the Qatari monarchy away from supporting jihad and towards promoting peace. But will he take it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Donald Trump has an opportunity to influence the Qatari monarchy away from supporting jihad and towards promoting peace. But will he take it?

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]]> 705 In Defence of John Money https://quillette.com/2024/06/16/in-defence-of-john-money/ How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 23 May 2025 03:22:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Alex Byrne. Read by Iona Italia. How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe?

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]]> 1185 The Women Excluded from Parsi Life The Zoroastrians of India, are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 23 May 2025 00:52:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Nev March. Read by Iona Italia. The Zoroastrians of India, are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The Zoroastrians of India, are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community.

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]]> 1760 Brave New Marvel https://quillette.com/2025/05/01/brave-new-marvel-mcu-captain-america/ Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 22 May 2025 00:30:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by William Barker. Read by William Laing. Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner.

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]]> 748 Out with the Old... https://quillette.com/2025/05/12/out-with-the-old-nigel-farage-reform-uk-conservatives-labour-new-right/ Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 20 May 2025 08:08:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by John Lloyd. Read by William Laing. Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat.

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]]> 680 Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles? https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/ Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests. By Ellie Avishai. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 19 May 2025 23:36:00 -0000 Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles? full Quillette Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles? Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests. By Ellie Avishai. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.

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]]> 1601 The Many Faces of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ https://quillette.com/2025/03/14/the-many-faces-of-the-count-of-monte-cristo-dumas/ Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 19 May 2025 22:47:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Stewart Slater. Read by Iona Italia. Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate. 

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]]> 900 'Oikophobia': Our Western Self-Hatred https://quillette.com/2019/10/07/oikophobia-our-western-self-hatred/ The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 19 May 2025 21:50:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Benedict Beckeld. Read by Iona Italia. The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.

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]]> 746 Truth Telling and Colonial History The colonisation of Australia was neither a "peaceful settlement" nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 19 May 2025 03:24:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Sean Welsh. Read by William Laing. The colonisation of Australia was neither a "peaceful settlement" nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The colonisation of Australia was neither a "peaceful settlement" nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists.

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]]> 1649 Scientology’s War on Psychiatry https://quillette.com/2022/10/18/explaining-scientologys-war-against-psychiatry/ What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 14 May 2025 00:44:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Stephen Wiseman and Jonathan Salem-Wiseman. Read by Iona Italia. What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted?

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]]> 1827 Our Glorious Unhead of State https://quillette.com/2022/09/21/our-unhead-of-state/ The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 13 May 2025 21:44:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Harry Lehmann. Read by William Laing. The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state.

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]]> 423 Lessons from the Last Empire of Iran https://quillette.com/2020/07/31/lessons-from-the-last-empire-of-iran/ Despite the uncertainties and tensions that characterize modern political life, we would do well to remember that the future we want is never the future we actually get, and that civilisation will outlast the fragility of politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 12 May 2025 04:54:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Michael Bonner. Read by Iona Italia. Despite the uncertainties and tensions that characterize modern political life, we would do well to remember that the future we want is never the future we actually get, and that civilisation will outlast the fragility of politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Despite the uncertainties and tensions that characterize modern political life, we would do well to remember that the future we want is never the future we actually get, and that civilisation will outlast the fragility of politics.

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]]> 1050 The Thunder from Down Under https://quillette.com/2025/01/25/the-thunder-from-down-under-ac-dc-australia-music/ If Bach was the sound of God whistling while he worked, AC/DC was the sound of God ordering another round in a strip club on Saturday night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 09 May 2025 04:37:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by George Case. Read by William Laing. If Bach was the sound of God whistling while he worked, AC/DC was the sound of God ordering another round in a strip club on Saturday night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices If Bach was the sound of God whistling while he worked, AC/DC was the sound of God ordering another round in a strip club on Saturday night.

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]]> 887 For Our Own Good, We All Need a Glimpse of the Evil Queen https://quillette.com/2021/03/07/for-our-own-good-we-all-need-a-glimpse-of-the-evil-queen/ I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 08 May 2025 23:34:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Jordan Peterson. Read by Iona Italia. I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue.

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]]> 1075 Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance https://quillette.com/2025/04/24/against-the-tyranny-of-opinionated-ignorance-joe-rogan-douglas-murray/ Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 08 May 2025 03:30:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Yuki Zeman. Read by Iona Italia. Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.

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]]> 655 When Good Academics Do Bad Things In a speech at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, Jonathan Kay shared insights from investigating a controversy at the university's teachers college. The story involves Margaret Munn, a middle-aged educator who faced backlash for questioning the concept of "decolonization" in a course titled "Indigenous Education: Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy." Munn was reported to the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee and faced potential expulsion for her views. However, a UWO tribunal eventually ruled in her favor, citing violations of free speech. The editor’s investigation highlights the institutional pressures and the complex dynamics of academic environments focused on decolonization and social justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 06 May 2025 23:47:00 -0000 full Quillette In a speech at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, Jonathan Kay shared insights from investigating a controversy at the university's teachers college. The story involves Margaret Munn, a middle-aged educator who faced backlash for questioning the concept of "decolonization" in a course titled "Indigenous Education: Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy." Munn was reported to the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee and faced potential expulsion for her views. However, a UWO tribunal eventually ruled in her favor, citing violations of free speech. The editor’s investigation highlights the institutional pressures and the complex dynamics of academic environments focused on decolonization and social justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In a speech at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, Jonathan Kay shared insights from investigating a controversy at the university's teachers college. The story involves Margaret Munn, a middle-aged educator who faced backlash for questioning the concept of "decolonization" in a course titled "Indigenous Education: Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy." Munn was reported to the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee and faced potential expulsion for her views. However, a UWO tribunal eventually ruled in her favor, citing violations of free speech. The editor’s investigation highlights the institutional pressures and the complex dynamics of academic environments focused on decolonization and social justice.

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]]> 1582 no The Settlers: An Incomplete Portrayal https://quillette.com/2025/05/06/the-settlers-an-incomplete-portrayal-louis-theroux-settlers-israel-palestine/ Louis Theroux’s new documentary suggests that he is unfamiliar with the complex history behind the Israeli occupation of The West Bank, and does not understand the political and ideological factors at stake there. By John Aziz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 06 May 2025 03:54:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. Louis Theroux’s new documentary suggests that he is unfamiliar with the complex history behind the Israeli occupation of The West Bank, and does not understand the political and ideological factors at stake there. By John Aziz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Louis Theroux’s new documentary suggests that he is unfamiliar with the complex history behind the Israeli occupation of The West Bank, and does not understand the political and ideological factors at stake there. By John Aziz.

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]]> 689 The Fight for Academic Freedom in the UK https://quillette.com/2025/04/06/the-fight-for-academic-freedom-in-the-uk-higher-education-act-free-speech/ How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 05 May 2025 22:05:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Abhishek Saha. Read by Iona Italia. How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.

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]]> 3785 Disuniting Australia https://quillette.com/2024/08/07/disuniting-australia/ What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 02 May 2025 06:35:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Alan Davison. Read by William Laing. What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?  

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]]> 1864 'The Language of Soviet Propaganda' by Izabella Tabarovsky https://quillette.com/2024/01/11/the-language-of-soviet-propaganda/ Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:47:00 -0000 'The Language of Soviet Propaganda' by Izabella Tabarovsky full Quillette Read by Iona Italia Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.

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]]> 351 Ghosts of Electricity https://quillette.com/2024/12/30/the-ghost-of-electricity-bob-dylan-blonde-on-blonde-visions-of-johanna/ The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:31:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Thomas Larson. Read by Iona Italia. The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’

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]]> 917 Hamas Should Never Be Decriminalised https://quillette.com/2025/04/16/hamas-should-never-be-decriminalised/ The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:51:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz. The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.

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]]> 694 The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus https://quillette.com/2023/05/22/the-wrongful-exoneration-of-adnan-syed-ii/ Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:21:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Andrew Hammel. Read by William Laing. Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.

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]]> 5691 'The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case' by Andrew Hammel https://quillette.com/2023/05/22/the-wrongful-exoneration-of-adnan-syed-i/ A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:19:00 -0000 full Quillette A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict. A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.

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]]> 4622 Does TED Still Make Sense? https://quillette.com/2025/04/17/does-ted-still-make-sense/ Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:10:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by Jonathan Kay. Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.

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]]> 989 Revisiting ‘Wake in Fright’, A Peculiarly Australian Kind of Hell https://quillette.com/2021/09/28/a-peculiarly-australian-kind-of-hell-revisiting-wake-in-fright/ Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:16:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Ryan Anderson. Read by William Laing. Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart.

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]]> 1539 Australia's Population Ponzi Scheme https://quillette.com/2020/10/28/australias-population-ponzi-scheme/ The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:03:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Kelvin Thomson. Read by William Laing. The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.

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]]> 338 Marxism: The Idea That Refuses to Die Its ability to churn out such plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:48:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Tibor Rutar. Read by Iona Italia Its ability to churn out such plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Its ability to churn out such plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.

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]]> 1313 Jihadism Is the Problem https://quillette.com/2025/03/29/jihadism-is-the-problem-syria-gaza/ The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:20:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by John Aziz The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.

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]]> 795 The Fugitive Mind My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:32:00 -0000 full Quillette Written and read by Joan Maltese. My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.

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]]> 5221 How to Tell if You’re Living in a Patriarchy Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:25:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Helen Pluckrose. Read by Iona Italia. Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with. 

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]]> 1574 The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die by Kevin Mims https://quillette.com/2024/03/07/the-amityville-horror-a-50-year-old-lie/ Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:22:00 -0000 full Quillette Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America. Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.

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]]> 2489 The Open Society and Its New Enemies https://quillette.com/2025/01/29/the-open-society-and-its-new-enemies-karl-popper-francis-fukuyama-historicism/ What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:10:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Matt Johnson. Read by Iona Italia. What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.

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]]> 3002 Against the Death Penalty https://quillette.com/2025/01/02/against-the-death-penalty-capital-punishment/ The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 20 Mar 2025 01:26:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Ralph Leonard. Read by Iona Italia. The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.

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]]> 829 Stalin, Putin, and the Corruption of History https://quillette.com/2025/03/20/stalin-putin-and-the-corruption-of-history/ The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 20 Mar 2025 01:17:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Andy Owen. Read by Iona Italia. The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.

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]]> 1286 What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction? https://quillette.com/2022/05/09/what-explains-womens-fascination-with-bdsm-fiction/ Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:27:00 -0000 'What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction?' Written by Robert King. full Quillette What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction? Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.

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]]> 341 The Tyranny of Fragility How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 13 Mar 2025 23:35:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Samuel Veissière. Read by Iona Italia. How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.

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]]> 943 Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist https://quillette.com/2024/03/13/johann-blumenbach-the-first-race-scientist/ The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:21:00 -0000 Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist' by Coel Hellier. full Quillette Written by Coel Hellier. Read by Iona Italia. The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.

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]]> 1261 Peter Beinart's Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Susie Lindfield Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:02:00 -0000 full Quillette Written by Susie Linfield. Read by Iona Italia. Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.

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]]> 2006 Israel–Gaza: A War Between Cousins by John Aziz https://quillette.com/2025/02/20/israel-gaza-a-war-between-cousins/ Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:30:00 -0000 full Quillette Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots. Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.

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]]> 735 Demystifying Critical Race Theory by Josh Yuter https://quillette.com/2025/02/19/demystifying-critical-race-theory/ Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:17:00 -0000 full Quillette Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous. Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.

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]]> 2025 Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution by Thomas F. Powers https://quillette.com/2025/02/08/trump-and-the-dei-counter-revolution-affirmative-action-civil-rights/ Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:46:47 -0000 full Quillette Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it. Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.

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]]> 4702 Universities Are Worth Saving by Jonathan Rauch https://quillette.com/2025/02/18/universities-are-worth-saving/ Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:46:00 -0000 full Quillette Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down. Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.

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]]> 1493 'The Language of Sex' by Marilyn Simon https://quillette.com/2021/08/18/the-language-of-sex/ While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:39:24 -0000 full Quillette While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated. While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated.

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]]> 1107 'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke https://quillette.com/2023/12/05/apostles-of-appeasement/ A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:46:57 -0000 'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke full Quillette Read by Iona Italia. A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.

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]]> 345 Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future by Razib Khan https://quillette.com/2025/01/23/why-there-will-not-be-a-beige-future-skin-colour-race/ Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:39:27 -0000 full Quillette Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism. Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.

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]]> 566 The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter by Razib Khan The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:26:08 -0000 full Quillette The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals. The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.

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]]> 584 'Trump and the Academic Cocoon' by Heather Mac Donald https://quillette.com/2024/11/28/trump-and-the-academic-cocoon-2024-election-harris-biden/ A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Feb 2025 04:15:00 -0000 'Trump and the Academic Cocoon' by Heather Mac Donald full Quillette Read by Iona Italia. A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.

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]]> 1191 'The Weak Horse' by Brian Stewart https://quillette.com/2024/12/03/the-weak-horse-syria-assad-obama-iran-russia/ Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Feb 2025 04:12:54 -0000 'The Weak Horse' by Brian Stewart full Quillette Read by Iona Italia. Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.

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]]> 867 'Anti-Zionism’s German Roots' by Gerfried Ambrosch https://quillette.com/2024/11/18/anti-zionisms-german-roots-israel/ While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Feb 2025 04:02:26 -0000 'Anti-Zionism’s German Roots' by Gerfried Ambrosch full Quillette While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil. While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.

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]]> 1204 'Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess' by Iona Italia https://quillette.com/2023/05/20/embracing-the-passion-and-perfection-of-chess/ While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:55:43 -0000 'Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess' by Iona Italia trailer Quillette 'Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess' by Iona Italia. Read by Iona Italia. While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.

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]]> 1317 'Tyranny Is Not What It Used to Be' by Brian Stewart https://quillette.com/2024/12/16/tyranny-is-not-what-it-used-to-be-autocracy-inc-review-anne-applebaum/ In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:52:03 -0000 'Tyranny Is Not What It Used to Be' by Brian Stewart full Quillette Read by Iona Italia. In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time.

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]]> 917 Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist by Coel Hellier. https://quillette.com/2024/03/13/johann-blumenbach-the-first-race-scientist/ The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:42:23 -0000 full Quillette The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for. The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.

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]]> 1261 Roald Dahl and the Ethics of Art by Iona Italia https://quillette.com/2023/02/21/roald-dahl-and-the-ethics-of-art/ The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:30:52 -0000 full Quillette The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable. The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable.

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]]> 1240 Sage of Sex and Psyche by Steven Pinker https://quillette.com/2025/02/04/sage-of-sex-and-psyche-donald-symons-evolutionary-psychology-sex/ Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:10:54 -0000 full Quillette Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024). Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).

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]]> 1322 'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke https://quillette.com/2023/12/05/apostles-of-appeasement/ A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:02:14 -0000 full Quillette A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers. A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.

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]]> 1001 'Jesus Wasn't Palestinian' by John Aziz https://quillette.com/2024/12/18/jesus-wasnt-palestinian/ Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Feb 2025 02:51:54 -0000 'Jesus Wasn't Palestinian' by John Aziz full Quillette Read by John Aziz Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history. 

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]]> 621 'The Baby Gate: A Memoir' by Steve Salerno https://quillette.com/2024/11/08/the-baby-gate-a-memoir-paternity-fatherhood/ So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 10 Feb 2025 02:47:06 -0000 'The Baby Gate: A Memoir' by Steve Salerno full Quillette Read by William Laing So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email.

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]]> 2402 'The Language of Soviet Propaganda' by Izabella Tabarovsky https://quillette.com/2024/01/11/the-language-of-soviet-propaganda/ Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:05:36 -0000 full Quillette Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred. Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.

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]]> 1582 'Burning the Quran' by John Aziz Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:06:00 -0000 full Quillette Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms? Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms?

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]]> 561 'Australia's Anti-Semitism Crisis' by Claire Lehmann Claire Lehmann discusses the aftermath of a firebombing at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne and the perceived leadership failures in Australia relating to antisemitism. Lehmann argues that there is a leadership vacuum as key figures like Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fail to adequately address antisemitic incidents. This institutional indifference is highlighted by several instances where Jewish Australians were intimidated, and their safety compromised, which elicits historical parallels to events like Kristallnacht. Lehmann criticizes both government and corporate sectors for their silence and calls for a more decisive response to distinguish between legitimate criticism of Israeli policies and outright antisemitism. The narrative suggests that societal frameworks often fail to recognize the victimization of successful communities like the Jewish population when subjected to hate-driven violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:12:00 -0000 'Australia's Anti-Semitism Crisis' by Claire Lehmann full Quillette 'Australia's Anti-Semitism Crisis' by Claire Lehmann Claire Lehmann discusses the aftermath of a firebombing at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne and the perceived leadership failures in Australia relating to antisemitism. Lehmann argues that there is a leadership vacuum as key figures like Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fail to adequately address antisemitic incidents. This institutional indifference is highlighted by several instances where Jewish Australians were intimidated, and their safety compromised, which elicits historical parallels to events like Kristallnacht. Lehmann criticizes both government and corporate sectors for their silence and calls for a more decisive response to distinguish between legitimate criticism of Israeli policies and outright antisemitism. The narrative suggests that societal frameworks often fail to recognize the victimization of successful communities like the Jewish population when subjected to hate-driven violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Claire Lehmann discusses the aftermath of a firebombing at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne and the perceived leadership failures in Australia relating to antisemitism. Lehmann argues that there is a leadership vacuum as key figures like Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fail to adequately address antisemitic incidents. This institutional indifference is highlighted by several instances where Jewish Australians were intimidated, and their safety compromised, which elicits historical parallels to events like Kristallnacht. Lehmann criticizes both government and corporate sectors for their silence and calls for a more decisive response to distinguish between legitimate criticism of Israeli policies and outright antisemitism. The narrative suggests that societal frameworks often fail to recognize the victimization of successful communities like the Jewish population when subjected to hate-driven violence.

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]]> 593 'Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing' by Pascal Bruckner https://quillette.com/2019/09/14/europes-virtues-will-be-its-undoing/ Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0000 'Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing' by Pascal Bruckner full Quillette 'Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing' by Pascal Bruckner Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.

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]]> 2455 'The Ceasefire Deal' by Benny Morris https://quillette.com/2025/01/20/the-gaza-deal-israel-ceasefire-hostages/ As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 21 Jan 2025 05:08:00 -0000 'The Ceasefire Deal' by Benny Morris full Quillette 'The Ceasefire Deal' by Benny Morris As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear.

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]]> 1206 'Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him' by Jonathan Kay https://quillette.com/2025/01/07/shame-on-us-for-ever-believing-him/ Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:25:45 -0000 'Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him' by Jonathan Kay full Quillette Read by Jonathan Kay Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.

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]]> 814 'This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism' by John Aziz https://quillette.com/2025/01/08/this-is-not-late-stage-capitalism-automation-ai-robotics/ Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:24:00 -0000 'This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism' by John Aziz full Quillette Read by John Aziz Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.

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]]> 665 'Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare' by Jonathan Kay https://quillette.com/2024/01/06/western-europes-forgotten-nightmare/ In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:39:00 -0000 'Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare' by Jonathan Kay full Quillette Read by Iona Italia In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror.

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]]> 1332 'Savage Entertainment' by Jaspreet Singh Boparai https://quillette.com/2024/11/14/savage-entertainment-caligula-ultimate-cut-malcolm-mcdowell-tinto-brass-penthouse/ A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:31:00 -0000 'Savage Entertainment' by Jaspreet Singh Boparai full Quillette Read by Iona Italia A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history.

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]]> 3043 'Divorce and the Silver Bullet' by James C. Coren https://quillette.com/2019/04/16/divorce-and-the-silver-bullet/ False allegations may be employed by either parent, but, given the prevailing winds of culture, the gun is far more often in the hand of a woman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 26 Nov 2024 23:58:50 -0000 'Divorce and the Silver Bullet' by James C. Coren full Quillette 'Divorce and the Silver Bullet' by James C. Coren. Read by William Laing. False allegations may be employed by either parent, but, given the prevailing winds of culture, the gun is far more often in the hand of a woman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices False allegations may be employed by either parent, but, given the prevailing winds of culture, the gun is far more often in the hand of a woman.

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]]> 1171 'Making America British Again' by David A. Wilson https://quillette.com/2024/07/09/making-america-british-again-william-cobbett-american-revolutionary/ The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 14 Nov 2024 03:07:41 -0000 'Making America British Again' by David A. Wilson full Quillette 'Making America British Again' by David A. Wilson. Read by Iona Italia. The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars.

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]]> 1455 'Justice in Stockholm' by Roya Hakakian https://quillette.com/2023/02/07/justice-in-stockholm/ Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:34:22 -0000 'Justice in Stockholm' by Roya Hakakian full Quillette 'Justice in Stockholm' by Roya Hakakian. Read by Iona Italia Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.

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]]> 2016 'The West is Next' by John Aziz https://quillette.com/2024/11/11/the-west-is-next/ If we are to fight for liberty for everyone—including Muslims—we must be serious about being ready to stand up to Islamists like Hamas, who seek to revive Islamic imperialism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:46:00 -0000 'The West is Next' by John Aziz full Quillette 'The West is Next' by John Aziz. Read by John Aziz. If we are to fight for liberty for everyone—including Muslims—we must be serious about being ready to stand up to Islamists like Hamas, who seek to revive Islamic imperialism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices If we are to fight for liberty for everyone—including Muslims—we must be serious about being ready to stand up to Islamists like Hamas, who seek to revive Islamic imperialism.

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]]> 853 'A History of Feminist Antisemitism' by Kara Jesella https://quillette.com/2023/12/15/a-history-of-feminist-antisemitism/ The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 07 Nov 2024 03:17:46 -0000 'A History of Feminist Antisemitism' by Kara Jesella full Quillette 'A History of Feminist Antisemitism' by Kara Jesella. Read by Iona Italia. The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred.

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]]> 2271 'The Case for Life on Mars' by Stephen Fleming. https://quillette.com/2024/09/03/life-on-mars-space-elon-musk-starship/ Settling Mars isn’t just about making humanity a multi-planetary species. It is about improving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 06 Nov 2024 01:59:12 -0000 'The Case for Life on Mars' by Stephen Fleming. full Quillette 'The Case for Life on Mars' by Stephen Fleming. Read by Stephen Fleming. Settling Mars isn’t just about making humanity a multi-planetary species. It is about improving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Settling Mars isn’t just about making humanity a multi-planetary species. It is about improving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone on Earth.

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]]> 1363 'Blonde on Blonde' by Charlotte Allen. https://quillette.com/2024/10/18/blonde-on-blonde-andrew-dominik-marilyn-monroe-norma-jeane-netflix/ Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:17:21 -0000 'Blonde on Blonde' by Charlotte Allen. full Quillette Read by Iona Italia. Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths.

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]]> 3302 'The Age of Amnesia' by Joel Kotkin https://quillette.com/2019/07/15/age-of-amnesia/ The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 25 Oct 2024 06:44:00 -0000 full Quillette The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution. The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution.

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]]> 958 The Children of the Revolution by James David Banker. https://quillette.com/2018/12/18/the-children-of-the-revolution/ The Children of the Revolution by James David Banker. Read by William Laing. Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:21:00 -0000 full Quillette The Children of the Revolution by James David Banker. Read by William Laing. Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity. The Children of the Revolution by James David Banker. Read by William Laing. Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The Children of the Revolution by James David Banker. Read by William Laing. Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity.

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]]> 1109 Why China Is Hiding the Horrors of Its Past by Nick Taber https://quillette.com/2019/07/10/why-china-is-hiding-the-horrors-of-its-past/ Why China Is Hiding the Horrors of its Past: While the Chinese government continues to transform Xinjiang through its cultural genocide program aimed at eliminating the distinct identity of the Uyghur population, it is also putting a high priority on controlling the history of the region and its people. By Nick Taber. Read by Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:46:32 -0000 Why China Is Hiding the Horrors of Its Past by Nick Taber full Quillette Why China Is Hiding the Horrors of Its Past by Nick Taber. Read by Iona Italia. Why China Is Hiding the Horrors of its Past: While the Chinese government continues to transform Xinjiang through its cultural genocide program aimed at eliminating the distinct identity of the Uyghur population, it is also putting a high priority on controlling the history of the region and its people. By Nick Taber. Read by Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Why China Is Hiding the Horrors of its Past: While the Chinese government continues to transform Xinjiang through its cultural genocide program aimed at eliminating the distinct identity of the Uyghur population, it is also putting a high priority on controlling the history of the region and its people. By Nick Taber. Read by Iona Italia.

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]]> 765 'White Lotus, Red Dragon—China’s History of Millenarian Dissent' by Aaron Sarin https://quillette.com/2021/05/29/white-lotus-red-dragon-chinas-history-of-millenarian-dissent/ White Lotus, Red Dragon—China’s History of Millenarian Dissent: When one woman refused and snapped at them to “go away,” they attacked her with a chair and mop handle. By Aaron Sarin. Read by Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 22 Oct 2024 05:07:53 -0000 'White Lotus, Red Dragon—China’s History of Millenarian Dissent' by Aaron Sarin full Quillette 'White Lotus, Red Dragon—China’s History of Millenarian Dissent' by Aaron Sarin. Read by Iona Italia White Lotus, Red Dragon—China’s History of Millenarian Dissent: When one woman refused and snapped at them to “go away,” they attacked her with a chair and mop handle. By Aaron Sarin. Read by Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices White Lotus, Red Dragon—China’s History of Millenarian Dissent: When one woman refused and snapped at them to “go away,” they attacked her with a chair and mop handle. By Aaron Sarin. Read by Iona Italia.

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]]> 1159 'Death of a Deluded Man' by John Aziz https://quillette.com/2024/10/19/the-death-of-a-deluded-man-yahya-sinwar-hamas-gaza/ 'The Death of a Deluded Man' by John Aziz. Read by John Aziz. Yahya Sinwar should be remembered above all as a failure whose fetish for Jewish—and Palestinian—blood turned Gaza into dust and rubble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:20:58 -0000 'Death of a Deluded Man' by John Aziz full Quillette 'Death of a Deluded Man' by John Aziz. Read by John Aziz. 'The Death of a Deluded Man' by John Aziz. Read by John Aziz. Yahya Sinwar should be remembered above all as a failure whose fetish for Jewish—and Palestinian—blood turned Gaza into dust and rubble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'The Death of a Deluded Man' by John Aziz. Read by John Aziz. Yahya Sinwar should be remembered above all as a failure whose fetish for Jewish—and Palestinian—blood turned Gaza into dust and rubble.

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]]> 845 'Serfing the Future' by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox https://quillette.com/2022/04/21/serfing-the-future/ 'Serfing the Future' by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox. Read by William Laing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:32:40 -0000 'Serfing the Future' by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox full Quillette 'Serfing the Future' by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox. Read by William Laing. 'Serfing the Future' by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox. Read by William Laing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'Serfing the Future' by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox. Read by William Laing.

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]]> 1250 'The Fall of Beirut' by Art Keller 'The Fall of Beirut: Calling Hezbollah merely a terror group is too simplistic, and nothing in Lebanon is ever simple or easy to explain.' by Art Keller. Read by Iona Italia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 18 Oct 2024 01:09:58 -0000 'The Fall of Beirut' by Art Keller full Quillette 'The Fall of Beirut' by Art Keller. Read by Iona Italia. 'The Fall of Beirut: Calling Hezbollah merely a terror group is too simplistic, and nothing in Lebanon is ever simple or easy to explain.' by Art Keller. Read by Iona Italia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'The Fall of Beirut: Calling Hezbollah merely a terror group is too simplistic, and nothing in Lebanon is ever simple or easy to explain.' by Art Keller. Read by Iona Italia. 

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]]> 1078 'America's Forgotten Crisis' by Michael J. Totten https://quillette.com/2022/12/17/americas-forgotten-crisis/ 'America's Forgotten Crisis: A terrific new account of America’s social and political turmoil during the 1910s and ’20s provides some much-needed perspective on the problems afflicting the country today.' by Michael J. Totten. Read by Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:41:40 -0000 'America's Forgotten Crisis' by Michael J. Totten full Quillette 'America's Forgotten Crisis' by Michael J. Totten 'America's Forgotten Crisis: A terrific new account of America’s social and political turmoil during the 1910s and ’20s provides some much-needed perspective on the problems afflicting the country today.' by Michael J. Totten. Read by Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'America's Forgotten Crisis: A terrific new account of America’s social and political turmoil during the 1910s and ’20s provides some much-needed perspective on the problems afflicting the country today.' by Michael J. Totten. Read by Iona Italia.

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]]> 1363 The Seven Laws of Pessimism by Maarten Boudry https://quillette.com/2024/01/26/the-seven-laws-of-pessimism/ Have we just lived through one of the best years in human history? As we look at 2023 through the rearview mirror, I think that’s a defensible claim. In fact, the same thing could have been said at the end of pretty much every year since the beginning of the millennium (with the exception of the disastrous pandemic years of 2020 and 2021). Never before have so many people lived in affluence, safety, and good health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 10 Oct 2024 01:19:19 -0000 The Seven Laws of Pessimism by Maarten Boudry full Quillette The Seven Laws of Pessimism: If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing? Have we just lived through one of the best years in human history? As we look at 2023 through the rearview mirror, I think that’s a defensible claim. In fact, the same thing could have been said at the end of pretty much every year since the beginning of the millennium (with the exception of the disastrous pandemic years of 2020 and 2021). Never before have so many people lived in affluence, safety, and good health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Have we just lived through one of the best years in human history? As we look at 2023 through the rearview mirror, I think that’s a defensible claim. In fact, the same thing could have been said at the end of pretty much every year since the beginning of the millennium (with the exception of the disastrous pandemic years of 2020 and 2021). Never before have so many people lived in affluence, safety, and good health.

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]]> 1237 'I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You)' by Nick Osmond-Jones https://quillette.com/2024/09/16/i-blew-up-my-lucrative-public-service-career/ 'I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You): A veteran of British Columbia’s public-sector workforce explains how DEI enforcers forced him to choose between keeping his job and honouring his values.' by Nick Osmond-Jones. Read by Iona Italia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:35:55 -0000 'I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You)' by Nick Osmond-Jones full Quillette 'I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You)' by Nick Osmond-Jones. Read by Iona Italia 'I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You): A veteran of British Columbia’s public-sector workforce explains how DEI enforcers forced him to choose between keeping his job and honouring his values.' by Nick Osmond-Jones. Read by Iona Italia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You): A veteran of British Columbia’s public-sector workforce explains how DEI enforcers forced him to choose between keeping his job and honouring his values.' by Nick Osmond-Jones. Read by Iona Italia

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]]> 2069 'Towards a Post-Hamas Future' by John Aziz https://quillette.com/2024/10/07/the-decline-and-fall-of-hamas-israel-gaza/ "Towards a Post-Hamas Future: The events of 7 October did not benefit Palestinians in any way." Written by John Aziz. Read by John Aziz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 07 Oct 2024 23:45:37 -0000 'Towards a Post-Hamas Future' by John Aziz full Quillette 'Towards a Post-Hamas Future' by John Aziz. Read by John Aziz. "Towards a Post-Hamas Future: The events of 7 October did not benefit Palestinians in any way." Written by John Aziz. Read by John Aziz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices "Towards a Post-Hamas Future: The events of 7 October did not benefit Palestinians in any way." Written by John Aziz. Read by John Aziz.

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]]> 713 'The Women of 7 October' by Iona Italia https://quillette.com/2024/10/07/the-women-of-7-october-gaza-israel/ 'The Women of 7 October' by Iona Italia. Read by Iona Italia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:59:28 -0000 'The Women of 7 October' by Iona Italia full Quillette 'The Women of 7 October' by Iona Italia. Read by Iona Italia. 'The Women of 7 October' by Iona Italia. Read by Iona Italia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'The Women of 7 October' by Iona Italia. Read by Iona Italia. 

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]]> 502 'For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son' by Steve Salerno https://quillette.com/2023/09/08/a-pit-bull-gave-me-back-my-son/ For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son: If I couldn’t openly love him, I would love what he loved. By Steve Salerno. Read by William Laing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:16:14 -0000 'For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son' by Steve Salerno full Quillette 'For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son' by Steve Salerno. Read by William Laing. For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son: If I couldn’t openly love him, I would love what he loved. By Steve Salerno. Read by William Laing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son: If I couldn’t openly love him, I would love what he loved. By Steve Salerno. Read by William Laing.

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]]> 1183 'A Conspiracy Theory of Connotations' by Oliver Traldi https://quillette.com/2023/02/24/a-conspiracy-theory-of-connotations/ 'A Conspiracy Theory of Connotations: The obsessive policing of language in the name of progress relies on magical thinking.' by Oliver Traldi. Read by William Laing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:09:18 -0000 'A Conspiracy Theory of Connotations' by Oliver Traldi full Quillette 'A Conspiracy Theory of Connotations' by Oliver Traldi. Read by William Laing. 'A Conspiracy Theory of Connotations: The obsessive policing of language in the name of progress relies on magical thinking.' by Oliver Traldi. Read by William Laing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'A Conspiracy Theory of Connotations: The obsessive policing of language in the name of progress relies on magical thinking.' by Oliver Traldi. Read by William Laing.

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]]> 916 'The Return of the Progressive Atrocity' by Susie Linfield https://quillette.com/2023/11/18/the-return-of-the-progressive-atrocity/ 'The Return of the Progressive Atrocity: It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.' by Susie Linfield. Read by Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 02 Oct 2024 04:10:41 -0000 'The Return of the Progressive Atrocity' by Susie Linfield full Quillette 'The Return of the Progressive Atrocity' by Susie Linfield 'The Return of the Progressive Atrocity: It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.' by Susie Linfield. Read by Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'The Return of the Progressive Atrocity: It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.' by Susie Linfield. Read by Iona Italia.

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]]> 2267 'In Defence of Stoicism' by Iona Italia. 'In Defence of Stoicism' by Iona Italia. Narrated by Iona Italia. Stoicism is a workout that builds emotional strength, a caulking of the timbers to enable us to weather the coming storms—a preparation we make precisely because the ocean voyage is so rewarding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:28:40 -0000 'In Defence of Stoicism' by Iona Italia. full Quillette 'In Defence of Stoicism' by Iona Italia. 'In Defence of Stoicism' by Iona Italia. Narrated by Iona Italia. Stoicism is a workout that builds emotional strength, a caulking of the timbers to enable us to weather the coming storms—a preparation we make precisely because the ocean voyage is so rewarding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'In Defence of Stoicism' by Iona Italia. Narrated by Iona Italia. Stoicism is a workout that builds emotional strength, a caulking of the timbers to enable us to weather the coming storms—a preparation we make precisely because the ocean voyage is so rewarding.

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]]> 2400 'Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror' by Cathy Young. https://quillette.com/2024/08/02/remembering-9-thermidor-reign-of-terror-french-revolution/ 'Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror' by Cathy Young. Read by William Laing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:48:46 -0000 'Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror' by Cathy Young full Quillette 'Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror' by Cathy Young 'Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror' by Cathy Young. Read by William Laing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror' by Cathy Young. Read by William Laing.

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]]> 2394 'The Totalitarian Artist' by Megan Gafford https://quillette.com/2024/09/20/the-totalitarian-artist-politics-vs-beauty/ 'The Totalitarian Artist: Politics vs Beauty: After Duchamp, the art world came to view the pursuit of beauty as naïve and gravitated toward political art in their search for meaning. But this is a Faustian bargain: you can have meaning, but you do not get to make it for yourself.' by Megan Gafford. Read by Iona Italia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:20:28 -0000 'The Totalitarian Artist' by Megan Gafford full Quillette 'The Totalitarian Artist' by Megan Gafford. Read by Iona Italia. 'The Totalitarian Artist: Politics vs Beauty: After Duchamp, the art world came to view the pursuit of beauty as naïve and gravitated toward political art in their search for meaning. But this is a Faustian bargain: you can have meaning, but you do not get to make it for yourself.' by Megan Gafford. Read by Iona Italia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'The Totalitarian Artist: Politics vs Beauty: After Duchamp, the art world came to view the pursuit of beauty as naïve and gravitated toward political art in their search for meaning. But this is a Faustian bargain: you can have meaning, but you do not get to make it for yourself.' by Megan Gafford. Read by Iona Italia. 

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]]> 2594 'Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary' by Benny Morris https://quillette.com/2024/09/19/tragedy-and-half-truths-a-gaza-diary-israel-palestine/ 'Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary' by Benny Morris. Published in Quillette.com on 19 September 2024. Narrated by Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:10:49 -0000 'Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary' by Benny Morris full Quillette 'Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary' by Benny Morris 'Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary' by Benny Morris. Published in Quillette.com on 19 September 2024. Narrated by Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary' by Benny Morris. Published in Quillette.com on 19 September 2024. Narrated by Iona Italia.

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]]> 1604 'Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments' by Greg Lukianoff 'Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments: How to effectively counter some perennial arguments against free speech.' Written by Greg Lukianoff. Narrated by Iona Italia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:02:36 -0000 'Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments' by Greg Lukianoff full Quillette 'Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments' by Greg Lukianoff. Narrated by Iona Italia. 'Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments: How to effectively counter some perennial arguments against free speech.' Written by Greg Lukianoff. Narrated by Iona Italia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 'Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments: How to effectively counter some perennial arguments against free speech.' Written by Greg Lukianoff. Narrated by Iona Italia. 

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]]> 1225 'A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology' by Paul Berman https://quillette.com/2024/09/09/a-stupid-cartoon-and-the-university-ideology-hamas-gaza-fanon-carmichael/ Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 09 Sep 2024 23:28:00 -0000 full Quillette Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism. Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.

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]]> 3944 Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary by Richard Dawkins. https://quillette.com/2024/09/06/richard-dawkins-sex-is-binary/ Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary by Richard Dawkins, read by Iona Italia. Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:35:00 -0000 Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary by Richard Dawkins full Quillette Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary by Richard Dawkins. Read by Iona Italia. Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary by Richard Dawkins, read by Iona Italia. Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary by Richard Dawkins, read by Iona Italia. Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies.

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]]> 1105 'Diary of a Cold Warrior' by Oscar Clarke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:04:59 -0000 full Quillette 'Diary of a Cold Warrior' by Oscar Clarke. Published in Quillette.com on 19 August 2024. Read by Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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]]> 1288 'The Professor, His Nemesis, and a Scandal at Oberlin' by Roya Hakakian https://quillette.com/2024/08/08/the-professor-his-nemesis-and-a-scandal-at-oberlin-mohammad-jafar-mahallati-iran-islamism/ The story of how a liberal college promoted and defended an Iranian Islamist and betrayed its own values. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:38:00 -0000 full Quillette The story of how a liberal college promoted and defended an Iranian Islamist and betrayed its own values. The story of how a liberal college promoted and defended an Iranian Islamist and betrayed its own values. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The story of how a liberal college promoted and defended an Iranian Islamist and betrayed its own values.

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]]> 3026 'Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of Trans Inclusion' by Joan Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 16 Aug 2024 05:35:06 -0000 'Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of Trans Inclusion' by Joan Smith full Quillette ‘Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of Trans Inclusion,’ by Joan Smith, Published at Quillette.com on 4 August 2024. Narrated by Iona Italia. . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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]]> 1452 'Empathy for the Devil' by Matt Johnson https://quillette.com/2024/07/30/empathy-for-the-devil-realism-ukraine/ Realists may believe international relations is all about mindless forces balancing and smashing into each other, but it’s actually about ideology, institutions, history, and the personalities of human beings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 01 Aug 2024 01:21:00 -0000 full Quillette Realists may believe international relations is all about mindless forces balancing and smashing into each other, but it’s actually about ideology, institutions, history, and the personalities of human beings. Realists may believe international relations is all about mindless forces balancing and smashing into each other, but it’s actually about ideology, institutions, history, and the personalities of human beings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Realists may believe international relations is all about mindless forces balancing and smashing into each other, but it’s actually about ideology, institutions, history, and the personalities of human beings.

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]]> 2145 The New Political Christianity https://quillette.com/2024/06/30/the-new-political-christianity/ Western civilisation has not succeeded because its liberal and secular principles are Christian; it has succeeded because Western Christians have accepted its liberal and secular values, writes Adam Wakeling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 28 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0000 The New Political Christianity full Quillette The New Political Christianity Western civilisation has not succeeded because its liberal and secular principles are Christian; it has succeeded because Western Christians have accepted its liberal and secular values, writes Adam Wakeling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Western civilisation has not succeeded because its liberal and secular principles are Christian; it has succeeded because Western Christians have accepted its liberal and secular values, writes Adam Wakeling.



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]]> 833 'The German Left's Jewish Dilemma' by Gerfried Ambrosch https://quillette.com/2024/07/25/the-german-lefts-jewish-dilemma/ Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:12:00 -0000 full Quillette Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals. Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals.

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]]> 1225 Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time by Frank Celia https://quillette.com/2024/06/17/recycling-plastic-is-a-dangerous-waste-of-time-microplastics-health/ The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year. Zoe Booth reads 'Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time' by Frank Celia. Published in Quillette on 17 Jun 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:12:52 -0000 Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time by Frank Celia full 12 Quillette Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time by Frank Celia The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year. Zoe Booth reads 'Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time' by Frank Celia. Published in Quillette on 17 Jun 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.


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]]> 1665 'Unbowed But Gravely Wounded' by Paul Berman https://quillette.com/2024/06/03/unbowed-but-gravely-wounded-salman-rushdie-knife-review-islamism/ Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, Knife, describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:42:00 -0000 'Unbowed But Gravely Wounded' by Paul Berman full Quillette Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, ‘Knife,’ describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality. Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, Knife, describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, Knife, describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality.

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]]> 1557 How French Intellectuals Ruined the West https://quillette.com/ Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained.  Iona Italia reads 'How French Intellectuals Ruined the West' by Helen Pluckrose. First published in Areo Magazine. Republished in Quillette on 7 May 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 08 May 2024 01:00:00 -0000 How French Intellectuals Ruined the West by Helen Pluckrose full Quillette How French Intellectuals Ruined the West by Helen Pluckrose Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained.  Iona Italia reads 'How French Intellectuals Ruined the West' by Helen Pluckrose. First published in Areo Magazine. Republished in Quillette on 7 May 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained. 


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]]> 1918 Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge https://quillette.com/2024/04/25/benn-steil-biography-henry-a-wallace-ronald-radosh/ Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:23:00 -0000 full Quillette Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history. Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history.

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]]> 2620 'Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022)' by Charlotte Allen https://quillette.com/2024/04/16/jean-luc-godard-in-retrospect-part-ii-fanaticism-and-failure-1966-2022/ A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 15 Apr 2024 03:59:00 -0000 full Quillette A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.

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]]> 3829 'Toward Ruin or Recovery?' by Larissa Phillips https://quillette.com/2024/03/20/toward-ruin-or-recovery-celeste-marcus-liberties-journal-yascha-mounk-feminist-metoo/ The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:38:00 -0000 full Quillette The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all. The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.

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]]> 3462 'Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65)' by Charlotte Allen. https://quillette.com/2024/04/10/jean-luc-godard-in-retrospect-part-i-abstraction-hero-1930-65/ A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:40:00 -0000 full Quillette A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.

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]]> 3894 'History Matters' by Joel Kotkin https://quillette.com/2023/09/14/history-matters/ A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:39:00 -0000 full Quillette A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit. A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit.

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]]> 1839 'Ending the Hunger Games' by Iona Italia https://quillette.com/2023/09/07/ending-the-hunger-games/ New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:17:00 -0000 full Quillette New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat. New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat.

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]]> 3081 ‘Our New, Subscription-Based World,’ by the Quillette editorial board. https://quillette.com/2023/04/10/our-new-subscription-based-world/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:34:00 -0000 full Quillette ‘Our New, Subscription-Based World,’ by the Quillette editorial board. Published at Quillette.com on April 10, 2023. Narrated by Jonathan Kay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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]]> 702 ‘Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal,’ by Nina Paley. https://quillette.com/2023/03/27/dont-let-cancellation-become-banal/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 06 Apr 2023 01:09:47 -0000 full Quillette ‘Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal,’ by Nina Paley. Published at Quillette.com on March 27, 2023. Narrated by Corinna Cohn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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]]> 485 ‘Hormones First. Research Later,’ by Bernard Lane, https://quillette.com/2023/03/14/hormones-first-research-later/ A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 19 Mar 2023 03:22:00 -0000 full Quillette A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’ A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’

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