Quillette Narrated

Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power. 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. 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. 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. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers. 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.  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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred. 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? 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars. 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. 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. 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. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices