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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

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 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

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/adchoi...

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

'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

'Serfing the Future' by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox. Read by William Laing. 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.  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. 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, safet...

'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

"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

'The Women of 7 October' by Iona Italia. Read by Iona Italia.  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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.  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. 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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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