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'The German Left's Jewish Dilemma' by Gerfried Ambrosch
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.

Ep 12Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time by Frank Celia
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.

'Unbowed But Gravely Wounded' by Paul Berman
Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, Knife, describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality.

How French Intellectuals Ruined the West
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.

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

'Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022)' by Charlotte Allen
A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.

'Toward Ruin or Recovery?' by Larissa Phillips
The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.

'Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65)' by Charlotte Allen.
A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.

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

'Ending the Hunger Games' by Iona Italia
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.

‘Our New, Subscription-Based World,’ by the Quillette editorial board.

‘Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal,’ by Nina Paley.

‘Hormones First. Research Later,’ by Bernard Lane,
A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’