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'The German Left's Jewish Dilemma' by Gerfried Ambrosch Jul 24, 2024

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Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals.

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Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time by Frank Celia Jun 26, 2024

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The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.

Zoe Booth reads 'Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time' by Frank Celia. Published in Quillette on 17 Jun 2024.

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'Unbowed But Gravely Wounded' by Paul Berman Jun 03, 2024

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Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, Knife, describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality.

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How French Intellectuals Ruined the West May 08, 2024

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Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained.

Iona Italia reads 'How French Intellectuals Ruined the West' by Helen Pluckrose. First published in Areo Magazine. Republished in Quillette on 7 May 2024.

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Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge Apr 25, 2024

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Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history.

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'Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022)' by Charlotte Allen Apr 15, 2024

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A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.

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'Toward Ruin or Recovery?' by Larissa Phillips Apr 11, 2024

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The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.

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'Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65)' by Charlotte Allen. Apr 10, 2024

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A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.

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'History Matters' by Joel Kotkin Sep 18, 2023

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A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit.

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'Ending the Hunger Games' by Iona Italia Sep 14, 2023

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New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat.

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