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Quillette Narrated
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Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
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What 7 October Taught Me About Decolonisation: Maarten Boudry
3w ago00:10:29Summary readyA philosopher explains how 7 October exposed decolonisation as a dangerous, Manichaean ideology — not harmless academic theory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Inside Australia’s Black Market Tobacco Crisis
3w ago00:28:35Summary readyAustralia’s war on tobacco created a $5.6B black market and a surge in gang violence. Written by Andrew Bushnell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I Chaired Canada's Human Rights Tribunal. Here's What I Saw.
4w ago00:21:21Summary readyDuring my time chairing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, I sometimes felt like the agent of a state-funded extortion ring, writes David Thomas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Menace of a Respectable Hatred
Jul 1200:30:32Summary readyWhat remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence? By Yuki Zeman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Never Neverland: What the Michael Jackson Biopic Leaves Out
Jun 801:00:29Summary readyAs Michael Jackson's new biopic crosses $790 million at the box office, the allegations against him remain largely unaddressed by mainstream culture. In this long read for Quillette, Andrew Hammel examines the evidence methodically — the police searches at Neverland, the corroborated physical descriptions, the pattern of relationships with boys from vulnerable homes, and the accounts of Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck. Jackson was acquitted at trial in 2005, and Hammel weighs that fact alongside the rest of the record. The result is one of the most thorough and dispassionate examinations of the case to date. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Enhanced Games: How to Take Drugs and Still Lose to High Schoolers
May 2900:08:42Summary readyThe Enhanced Games handed athletes a boatload of drugs. They still ran slower than high school boys, missed every world record, and proved that steroids can't replace talent plus daily boring work. Written by Steve Magness, a performance coach and the author of Do Hard Things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Intifadas Bring Neither Justice Nor Peace
May 2500:14:25Summary readyCalls to “globalise the intifada” have produced a wave of antisemitic terror and encourage an unending cycle of violence. By John Aziz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Strange Bedfellows
Apr 1300:13:39Summary readyThe hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Once Upon a Time...Film Critics Became Joyless—A Review
Mar 3100:14:36Summary readyTarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Beautiful Visions
Mar 2700:18:55Summary readyVan Morrison turns eighty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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