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Oct 20, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Peter Hague |John Aziz |Charlotte Allen |Robert Huddleston
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
quillette.com | John Aziz |Charlotte Allen |Robert Huddleston |Julia Friedman
When I first heard, the news hadn’t yet been confirmed: there were just swirling rumours that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, had been killed in Gaza. But then within a half-hour, the press carried a series of photos of a dead man, bearded and dusty, with his skull caved in, surrounded by a troop of teenage IDF grunts.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Charlotte Allen |Robert Huddleston |Julia Friedman |Sonny Loughran
Jonathan Kay: In this week’s episode, I’ll be talking to scholar Musa al-Gharbi, author of the acclaimed new book, We Have Never Been Woke: the Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, published this month by Princeton University Press.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Charlotte Allen |Robert Huddleston |Julia Friedman |Sonny Loughran
In September 2022, Netflix released Blonde, Andrew Dominik’s 167-minute adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s 738-page novel about the life and death of Marilyn Monroe. If the studio’s executives expected the film to be greeted with plaudits and awards, they were mistaken—most critics responded with scorching outrage to Dominik’s brutal and lugubrious take on the misfortunes of the screen icon and sex goddess who died following a self-administered overdose of Nembutal some sixty years before.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Robert Huddleston |Julia Friedman |Sonny Loughran |Benny Morris
A review of On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice by Adam Kirsch, 160 pages, W.W. Norton & co. (August 2024).
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Robert Huddleston
Pondering the crimes of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century, the Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn compared their unprecedented scope to the relatively small-scale persecutions engaged in by the paradigmatic political villains of Shakespeare’s plays, such as Macbeth, whose victims numbered only in the dozens or hundreds.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
compactmag.com | Robert Huddleston
In the early 13th century, amid an upsurge of religious dissent, Pope Innocent III launched a campaign to eliminate a heretical sect in southern France known as the Cathars or Albigensians (after the town of Albi). To put an end to the challenge to his authority, the pontiff enlisted the military aid of an expansionist dynasty of French monarchs, the Capetians, who were eager to bring the restive border region of Languedoc under their control.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Robert Huddleston
If someone says, “This land, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, is all mine and only mine,” then he is out for blood. —Amos Oz, Dear ZealotsIn early March the Tufts University student senate met to debate a series of proposals backing measures linked to the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions campaign, including the suspension of the university’s study-abroad programs in Israel.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Robert Huddleston |Katherine Streeter
An assortment of recent books has sought to reckon with the unnamable specter haunting the political left, especially on college campuses. Two of the most insightful, both published in the past year, are by academics who identify themselves as liberals or leftists: the political scientist Yascha Mounk’s analytically measured The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time and the philosopher Susan Neiman’s more polemically incisive Left Is Not Woke.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
quillette.com | Holly Lawford-Smith |Robert Huddleston
Note: This is an extended version of my contribution to the panel “Free Speech on Campus: Should Hecklers Be Banned?” at the Battle of Ideas Festival, held in London in October 2023. The heckler’s veto is, roughly, a veto over another person’s speech, exercised by opponents of the speaker and/or their speech. It can involve interrupting, shouting over, distracting from, or drowning out what the speaker is saying.
