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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Evan Morris |Steve Salerno |Adam Garfinkle |Jonathan Kay
To understand how biomedical scientists feel as they watch Donald Trump and Elon Musk aim their bazookas at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), recall how you felt when the Taliban aimed their bazookas at the 1,500-year-old Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan. âSenselessâ may be one word that springs to mind. âPermanentâ might be another. But the destruction of NIH is in many ways worse than the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas.
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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Steve Salerno |Adam Garfinkle |Jonathan Kay |Greg Koabel
I was 23 the first time I heard the word spoken with real malice in my physical presence. This was, unmistakably, not the fraternal versionâthe one ending in the soft â-aâ that edgy black comics employ in their bonding moments with outgoing black presidents.
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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Adam Garfinkle |Jonathan Kay |Greg Koabel |James Kierstead
HOST: Welcome to the Quillette Podcast, which is usually hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia. Quillette is where free thought lives. We are an independent, grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. And this week, we’ll be talking about Ukraine—a subject that is at the top of the headlines thanks to the bizarre diplomatic spectacle that took place at the White House on Friday during a visit from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Adam Garfinkle |Jonathan Kay |Greg Koabel |James Kierstead
As I absorbed the collected enormities disgorged by the second Trump administration on the topics of Ukraine and NATO over the last few weeksâfirst in Brussels, then in Munich, then in Washington, then in Riyadh, and finally in the Oval OfficeâI was reminded of the following exchange from Lewis Carrollâs 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass: âThereâs no use trying,â Alice said to the White Queen: âOne canât believe impossible things.â âI daresay you havenât had much...
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
beritaharian.sg | Adam Garfinkle
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May 30, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Aaron Sarin |Norman Goda |Matt Johnson |Adam Garfinkle
The barges on the miry river, the familiar streets, the posters telling of cricket matches and Royal weddings, the men in bowler hats, the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, the red buses, the blue policemen—all sleeping the deep, deep sleep of England, from which I sometimes fear that we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs. ~George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938) Nine years ago, Xi Jinping visited the United Kingdom.
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May 29, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Norman Goda |Matt Johnson |Adam Garfinkle |Holly Lawford-Smith
Many human-rights advocates welcomed the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002. The new tribunal aimed to replicate for contemporary atrocities what Nuremberg and subsequent tribunals accomplished for Nazi crimes. The court has marshalled evidence in the form of documents and testimony, it has established narratives of the atrocities themselves, and it has provided some measure of justice.
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May 29, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Matt Johnson |Adam Garfinkle |Holly Lawford-Smith
This week marked the third anniversary of Canada’s strange “unmarked graves” scandal—a morbid social panic that took hold of my country in late May 2021, following unverified claims that the corpses of 215 (presumably murdered) Indigenous children had been located at the site of a former school in Kamloops, British Columbia.
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May 28, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Matt Johnson |Adam Garfinkle |Holly Lawford-Smith |Rainer Zitelmann
In March 2006, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt—professors of international relations at the University of Chicago and Harvard, respectively—published a long essay in the London Review of Books titled “The Israel Lobby.” It argued that pro-Israel political forces in the United States exert a disproportionate and generally detrimental influence on American foreign policy. “The Israel Lobby” was immediately and intensely controversial.
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May 27, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Adam Garfinkle |Holly Lawford-Smith |Rainer Zitelmann |Paul Monk
Planets sometimes line up metaphorically as well as astronomically. My 1995 book Telltale Hearts: The Origin and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement and my 2009 book Jewcentricity: Why Jews Are Praised, Blamed, and Used to Explain Just About Everything have aligned in recent weeks thanks to the campus upheavals over the Gaza war.
