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Podcast #250: Israel: Germany’s Reason of State

Iona Italia talks to Gerfried Ambrosch about pro-Israel feeling on the German Left, antisemitism among Muslim immigrants and why Israel’s safety is “Germany’s reason of state.”

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4 Sep 2024 · 27 min read

A Muslim woman in London wearing a niqab, using a mobile phone while shopping on Oxford Street.

The Muslim Choice: Integration or Confrontation

Liberalising trends within Islam are facing resistance from radicals committed to a narrative of victimhood and grievance.

John Lloyd

3 Sep 2024 · 33 min read

The Case for Life on Mars

Settling Mars isn’t just about making humanity a multi-planetary species. It is about improving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone on Earth.

Stephen Fleming

3 Sep 2024 · 15 min read

Alice Munro, an elderly woman, walks along the foreshore in Canada.

Monstrous Things

Dostoevsky, Alice Munro, and the nature of fiction—what does our inability to forgive do to our ability to confess?

Allan Stratton

1 Sep 2024 · 11 min read

A deflated yellow smiley face balloon on a dirty road.

Selling Happiness Through Illusions

The caring industry’s wellness and positivity products cannot provide self-esteem to those who do not already have it.

Ronald W. Dworkin

30 Aug 2024 · 15 min read

Black and white photo of a replica of an early steam-powered locomotive, on train tracks, against a blank wall.

Forging Early America’s Northeastern Backbone

In a new book, David Alff traces the origins of the railway line that joined Boston to Washington, D.C., transforming a young nation in the process.

Jonathan Kay

29 Aug 2024 · 18 min read

Podcast #249: The (Other) Scandal at Oberlin College

Jonathan Kay speaks with Roya Hakakian about the rise and fall of Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, a former Iranian official who’d presented himself to Oberlin as an agent of peace and ‘forgiveness.’

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29 Aug 2024 · 23 min read

Sacha Guitry as Jean Lécuyer in Ils étaient neuf célibataires (1939), seated at a table, with a polka dot tie

A Filmmaker in Spite of Himself

Sacha Guitry disdained cinema as an art form, but with a slew of recent Blu-ray releases, his acidic comedies are finally receiving the attention they deserve.