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  • 1 month ago | quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Brian Stewart |Charlotte Allen |Paul Brown

    My guest this week is Jonathan Rauch. Jon is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies programme at the Brookings Institution.

  • 1 month ago | quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Brian Stewart |Charlotte Allen |Paul Brown

    Tsar Nicholas II, being the last reigning Emperor of Russia, ranks as a major historical figure. Yet in many histories of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Tsar is treated almost as a secondary character—more a passive symbol of old-world aristocracy than a major protagonist in his own right. This is why I was uncertain about launching myself into historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa’s newly published book, The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.

  • 1 month ago | quillette.com | Brian Stewart |Jonathan Kay |Charlotte Allen |Paul Brown

    Anyone wanting to take the pulse of progressive America can consult the opinion pages of the New York Times. That‚Äôs where, earlier this year, I found Ezekiel Kweku, one of the paper‚Äôs editors, complaining bitterly about Hamilton. A decade after the musical about America‚Äôs neglected founding father became a Broadway sensation, Kweku wants his readers to know that it has not aged well.

  • Dec 5, 2024 | quillette.com | Lawrence Cahoone |Charlotte Allen |Matt Johnson |Brian Stewart

    Introduction: My guest this week is Anna Gat. Anna is a Hungarian émigré who is now happily based in New York. A former poet, screenwriter, and playwright, in 2016 Anna founded Interintellect: a platform that allows people to create discussion forums, talks followed by Q&A sessions, and more informal meetups, both online and in person. Interintellect now hosts one or two salons every day and subscribers to the platform number in the tens of thousands.

  • Dec 5, 2024 | quillette.com | Charlotte Allen |Matt Johnson |Brian Stewart |Lawrence Cahoone

    Some commentators fear that the West is in decline or dying or committing suicide. Others look forward to this development. Still others claim there never has been a “West” to worry about. Each may be right about a different appendage of the elephant. The unipolar moment—the “end of history” in 1989 when the Cold War concluded and the West with its allies seemed triumphant—led to new globalisation, economic gains in the developing world, and an expansion of liberal democracy.

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