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Quillette Narrated

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Feb 10, 2025 • 40min

'The Baby Gate: A Memoir' by Steve Salerno

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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Feb 7, 2025 • 26min

'The Language of Soviet Propaganda' by Izabella Tabarovsky

Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
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Feb 6, 2025 • 9min

'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?
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Feb 2, 2025 • 10min

'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.
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Jan 23, 2025 • 41min

'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.
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Jan 21, 2025 • 20min

'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.
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Jan 16, 2025 • 14min

'Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him' 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.
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Jan 14, 2025 • 11min

'This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism' by John Aziz

Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.
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Dec 13, 2024 • 22min

'Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare' by Jonathan Kay

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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Dec 9, 2024 • 51min

'Savage Entertainment' by Jaspreet Singh Boparai

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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