Podcast 138: Literary Critic Leon Wieseltier on His New Magazine, the Meaning of Forgiveness, and His Favorite Car-Chase Movies
Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to long-time New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier about Liberties, the ambitious literary journal...
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The Podcaster Who (Single-handledly) Made Me Love History
This is an instalment of Simple Pleasures, an occasional Quillette series about some of the new joys that our writers have discovered as a...
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My Generation Isn’t Suffering Enough
An age of happiness is quite impossible, because men want only to desire it but not to have it, and every individual who experiences good...
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The Evolutionary Advantages of Playing Victim
Victimhood is defined in negative terms: “the condition of having been hurt, damaged, or made to suffer.” Yet humans have evolved to...
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To Skate—Perchance to Soar
Nairobi, January 2021. Saturday morning. I whizz joyfully around the multi-coloured skatepark. Beneath my feet, the board responds with...
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