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Quillette Narrated

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Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.

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'Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of Trans Inclusion' by Joan Smith 16.08.2024 24:12

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'Empathy for the Devil' by Matt Johnson 01.08.2024 35:45

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

The New Political Christianity 28.07.2024 13:53

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

'The German Left's Jewish Dilemma' by Gerfried Ambrosch 24.07.2024 20:25

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

Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time by Frank Celia 26.06.2024 27:45

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

'Unbowed But Gravely Wounded' by Paul Berman 03.06.2024 25:57

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

How French Intellectuals Ruined the West 08.05.2024 31:58

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

Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge 25.04.2024 43:40

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

'Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022)' by Charlotte Allen 15.04.2024 1:03:49

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

'Toward Ruin or Recovery?' by Larissa Phillips 11.04.2024 57:42

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

'Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65)' by Charlotte Allen. 10.04.2024 1:04:54

'History Matters' by Joel Kotkin 18.09.2023 30:39

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

'Ending the Hunger Games' by Iona Italia 14.09.2023 51:21

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

‘Our New, Subscription-Based World,’ by the Quillette editorial board. 14.04.2023 11:42

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‘Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal,’ by Nina Paley. 06.04.2023 8:05

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‘Hormones First. Research Later,’ by Bernard Lane, 19.03.2023 23:16

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