Podcast #322: The Demise of Private Life
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Tiffany Jenkins about her fascinating and provocative new history, 'Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.'
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Tiffany Jenkins about her fascinating and provocative new history, 'Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.'
Australia’s under-16s social media ban has proven wildly popular among parents, but nevertheless it was ill conceived and comes with worrying trade-offs.
In April 1940, Danes, Germans, Brits, Americans, and Canadians had designs on the world’s largest island. Eighty-five years later, many of their arguments sound eerily familiar.
The brutality the security forces are unleashing in Iran is not an improvisation. It is doctrine.
The right-wing response to recent events in Minneapolis indicates that MAGA conservatives are determined to repeat the mistakes made by Daryl Gates 35 years ago.
An interview with the curators of the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum, the first Holocaust museum founded by Holocaust survivors.
Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and the antisemitic Right.
Tony Abbott argues that Australia’s history provides a lot to be proud of.
The convicts and soldiers who arrived in January 1788 had not just traversed a vast distance across the oceans; they had effectively journeyed back in time.
Greenland and the erosion of deep literacy.
The Australian identity 125 years after Federation.
An Australia Day reflection on the founding of a ‘free land.’
What the Adelaide Writers’ Week fiasco reveals about the moral economy of cultural elites.
How internet blackouts, morgue data, and medical testimony point to a five-digit death toll.
What large-scale genomic data reveals about consanguinity, inherited disease, and the uneasy politics of discussing biological risk.