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**Quillette Narrated**

Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.

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In Defence of John Money May 23, 2025

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How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe?

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The Women Excluded from Parsi Life May 23, 2025

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The Zoroastrians of India, are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community.

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Brave New Marvel May 22, 2025

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Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner.

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Out with the Old... May 20, 2025

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Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat.

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Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles? May 19, 2025

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Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.

By Ellie Avishai.

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The Many Faces of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ May 19, 2025

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Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate.

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'Oikophobia': Our Western Self-Hatred May 19, 2025

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The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.

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Truth Telling and Colonial History May 19, 2025

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The colonisation of Australia was neither a "peaceful settlement" nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists.

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Scientology’s War on Psychiatry May 14, 2025

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What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted?

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Our Glorious Unhead of State May 13, 2025

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The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state.

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