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Multinational Parsi 🔥 Chess, tango, dogs, sci fi, nuclear power, free speech, Mars. Solidarity with Jews. Senior Writer and Media Producer at Thinkable.
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Why the Enlightenment Matters

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By Iona Italia Verified, Adam Wakeling
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Podcast Iona Italia talks to lawyer and historian Adam Wakeling about the enduring importance of Enlightenment values and how to defend them today. Weimar's Courtyard of the Muses (1860) by Theobald von Oer, depicting the poets and thinkers of Weimar Classicism — including Schiller, Wieland, Herder, and Goethe — gathered in an idealized garden setting. Wikimedia Commons. Adam Wakeling is a historian based in Melbourne.
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The Last Straight Woman

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By Iona Italia Verified
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Introduction In this week’s edition of the Quillette podcast, I talk to writer, journalist and cultural commentator Phoebe Maltz Bovy. Phoebe is the co-host of two podcasts: the Canadian Jewish News podcast Bonjour Chai, with Rabbi Avi Finegold, and Feminine Chaos, with Kat Rosenfield. She is the author of The Perils of “Privilege”: Why Injustice Can’t Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage (2017).
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What Straight Women Want

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By Iona Italia Verified
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A Review of The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men by Phoebe Maltz Bovy, 288 pages, Penguin Random House (May 2026) The central premise of Phoebe Maltz Bovy’s new book is that female heterosexuality has been misunderstood and needlessly politicised by theorists—many of them lesbians—who seem to underestimate the extent to which women find it exciting and rewarding to be around men they find attractive.
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