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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.
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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.
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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’s where, earlier this year, I found Ezekiel Kweku, one of the paper’s editors, complaining bitterly about Hamilton. A decade after the musical about America’s neglected founding father became a Broadway sensation, Kweku wants his readers to know that it has not aged well.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Claire Lehmann |Lawrence Cahoone |Charlotte Allen |Matt Johnson
Two days after Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, I was sitting at my desk in the Sydney Central Business District. Zoe, my colleague, stood up from her desk with a worried look. Holding her phone, she told me that the New South Wales Board of Deputies had received a police warning: the safety of Jews in the city could not be guaranteed. The message she had just received was encouraging them to leave.
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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.
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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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Dec 4, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Charlotte Allen |Matt Johnson |Brian Stewart |Joel Kotkin
On the surface, Gints Zilbalodis’s Flow is simple enough that even a toddler can enjoy it. The plot and stakes are lessons in ruthless efficiency. A lonesome cat—named Flow in promotional material—has to survive on a small boat when a flood surges across the Earth. As the film progresses, the boat’s “crew” comes to include a capybara, a lemur, a secretary bird, and a golden retriever.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Charlotte Allen |Matt Johnson |Brian Stewart |Joel Kotkin
While watching Gladiator II, I was mesmerised by... no, not Paul Mescal’s legs. Although did anyone besides me notice that his protagonist, Lucius, wears his Roman tunics about 24 inches shorter than his fictional father, Maximus (Russell Crowe), did in the original Gladiator (2000)? Maximus went for just above the knees, in a style that seemed to be based on actual portrait-statues of Roman luminaries such as Julius Caesar and the emperor Trajan.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Greg Koabel |Josh Feldman |Jonathan Kay |Charlotte Allen
What follows is the twenty-third instalment of The Nations of Canada, a serialised Quillette project adapted from Greg Koabel’s ongoing podcast of the same name. As Cardinal Richelieu transformed New France from a trading post on the St. Lawrence into a full-fledged colony in the 1620s, he brought Canada into the sphere of European power politics. Europe’s wars had become global affairs. As a result, the handful of colonists at Quebec were swept up in imperial campaigns far above their pay grade.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Josh Feldman |Jonathan Kay |Charlotte Allen |Russell Warne
Were Hezbollah to disappear tomorrow, the world would be a safer place. Instead, thanks to UNIFIL’s failure to fulfil its mandate, the Middle East is on the precipice of a war of unprecedented destruction. Keep Reading From the Blog 30 Oct 2024 16 Oct 2024 10 Oct 2024 Join the newsletter to receive the latest updates in your inbox.
