Dennis Saffran

Sep 26, 2024 | quillette.com | Iona Italia |Holly Lawford-Smith |Benny Morris |Dennis Saffran

Editor’s Note: Back in 2019, I felt that my life had become increasingly financially precarious and spiritually empty and I fell into a deep well of regret and self-reproach. I was brooding obsessively over what I saw as the mistakes and missed opportunities of my past and was consumed by anxiety about the future. It was the discovery of Stoicism—largely through Derren Brown’s work (see below)—that, together with the love of friends, helped me out of it.

Sep 25, 2024 | quillette.com | Holly Lawford-Smith |Benny Morris |Dennis Saffran |Daniel McGraw |Daniel Mcgraw

On 19 March 2023 at 10:59am, Melbourne women’s rights advocate Angie Jones tweeted the following message:I have been denouncing Nazis more than ever in the last 24hrs despite them having nothing to do with us. It’s changed absolutely nothing. It’s just about making women bend & grovel for forgiveness for sins that aren’t ours. — Angie Jones (@angijones) March 18, 2023It was Sunday morning, the day after the ‘Let Women Speak’ rally hosted by British women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen.

Sep 25, 2024 | quillette.com | Benny Morris |Dennis Saffran |Daniel McGraw |Daniel Mcgraw |Jonathan Kay

On 5 January 1996, the Israeli security service, the Shin Bet, assassinated Hamas’s chief bomb-maker: Yahya Ayyash, codenamed “the Engineer.” The 29-year-old electrical engineer is believed to have been responsible for constructing sophisticated bombs and recruiting the suicide bombers who had killed some 90 Jews in buses and squares around Israel over the previous months. His assassination was a clever piece of tradecraft.

Sep 24, 2024 | quillette.com | Dennis Saffran |Daniel McGraw |Daniel Mcgraw |Jonathan Kay |Megan Gafford

Introduction: My guest this week is Brianna Wu. Brianna is a software developer and Democratic political operative. I invited her onto the podcast for two reasons. Since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7th October, she has been a voice of reason on the left, pushing back against the anti-Zionist and increasingly antisemitic rhetoric among American progressive activists in particular.

Sep 24, 2024 | quillette.com | Zoe Booth |Justo Antonio Triana |Dennis Saffran |Daniel McGraw |Daniel Mcgraw

Justo Antonio Triana is a Cuban poet, novelist, and free speech advocate. He is studying classical civilisation at Syracuse University and is interning with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Cuba’s Imprisoned TruthAn interview with the father of Cuban political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera. In this conversation, Justo reflects on his experience growing up in Cuba under a dictatorship, highlighting the pervasive poverty and lack of freedom.