A thoroughly enjoyable and fascinating interview thanks Jeff.
It’s a tragedy and curiosity that the West, supposedly valuing reason, and freedom of speech and expression, is shutting down its dissenting voices and seems to be trapped in narratives increasingly divorced from reality.
Russophobia and Sinophobia are back in fashion and the claim, repeated ad nauseam, that “Israel has the right to defend itself” is the tawdry shield against the West’s complicity in the barbarous live-streamed treatment of the Palestinians.
Sheila Fitzpatrick’s work, seeking to understand the lives of others in a different (and then and now thoroughly demonised) political system is inspirational.
Sounds greats. And timely. And I have had the privilege of seeing Sheila give a presentation a few years ago
A thoroughly enjoyable and fascinating interview thanks Jeff.
It’s a tragedy and curiosity that the West, supposedly valuing reason, and freedom of speech and expression, is shutting down its dissenting voices and seems to be trapped in narratives increasingly divorced from reality.
Russophobia and Sinophobia are back in fashion and the claim, repeated ad nauseam, that “Israel has the right to defend itself” is the tawdry shield against the West’s complicity in the barbarous live-streamed treatment of the Palestinians.
Sheila Fitzpatrick’s work, seeking to understand the lives of others in a different (and then and now thoroughly demonised) political system is inspirational.