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Szego Unplugged Podcast
by Julie Szego
My eclectic obsessions and musings. Gender identity, identity politics, politics, public education, class, old-school feminism. szegounplugged.substack.com
Episodes
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Inside Israel’s protest camp
Welcome to my first video post. It’s non-stop innovation here at Szego Unplugged: no boo boo this time! Esther Takac is a Melbourne-based filmmaker, author and psychologist, who I first met eons ago when she responded to a column I wrote about the challenges of reading the Book of Genesis to my...
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Jason Arday et al
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit szegounplugged.substack.com By popular demand, theologian, author and fellow Stacker Paul Tyson returns to this podcast! We chat about the Jason Arday controversy, a defining, and tragic, episode of the DEI era. Since we recorded this...
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The Palestinian Maverick
For some time now I’ve been keen to speak with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, an anti-Hamas Palestinian nationalist and peace advocate who has a scorching critique of the so-called pro-Palestinian movement in the West. This week I finally got my wish; here, Ahmed talks to me at length about his essay…
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Multicultural Troubles
Chetna Mahadik is general manager at the Robert Menzies Institute in Melbourne, a fellow stacker and the editor of, and contributor to, a recently published book of essays, Immigration & Multiculturalism: The Past, The Present and The Future. Chetna’s essay, Racism in Australia: Narrative and...
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The rot in Australia's literary scene
David Free is a critic (including for the Nine papers), novelist, and fellow-Stacker. In recent times, David, a non-Jew, has drawn attention for his lucid and brave essays on the anti-Jewish hostility that’s found a place in Australia’s literary scene. If you haven’t subscribed to his newsletter,...
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The Greens and the trans "cult"
Here I talk to Drew Hutton, a man of the moment for all the wrong reasons. Alongside Bob Brown, Hutton co-founded the national Greens in the early 1990s. A week ago the party’s state council in Queensland affirmed an earlier decision to boot him out for refusing to delete “transphobic” comments...
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The real John Anderson
I’ll explain the “accidental” gag soon — first, the important stuff. In this episode I pick the formidable brain of John Anderson, second-in-charge of Oz from 1999 to 2005 and these days a serious player in the world of long-form podcasting. He was an early adopter of the web-based interview,...
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The secret pain of 'trans widows'
In this podcast I speak with Indian filmmaker Vaishnavi Sundar, currently in Australia for screenings of her groundbreaking feature-length documentary, Behind the Looking Glass, which explores the lives of women whose male partners have “come out” as trans. (For details of screenings scroll to…
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The West's war on free speech
In this podcast episode (click here for the video version or listen wherever you get your podcasts) I speak with Dr Alan Davison, President of the Free Speech Union Australia, the local chapter of an organisation established in the UK in 2019. As its name suggests, the FSU defends freedom of...
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An atheist Jew and a conservative Christian walk into a bar ..
Can a believer and a non-believer find enough common ground to have a truly meaty conversation? I’ve always wondered about this. But my podcast guest Dr Paul Tyson, a philosopher, theologian, sociologist and fellow Substacker, reckons these days he finds it easier to talk meaningfully with…
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Trump and the working class: the sequel
If four years ago you would have told me that come the next US election we’d be confronting the prospect of Donald Trump: The Resurrection, I’d have suggested you get more fresh air. But here we are. And with his fascinating, if not inspired, choice of Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance as running...
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Dissecting the Cass Review
In this podcast I speak with journalist Bernard Lane, formerly at The Australian and now a fellow Substacker, whose newsletter Gender Clinic News — see the link below — covers the escalating debate over youth gender medicine at home and abroad. For many years Lane was effectively the only...
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And today's lesson is ...
Over the past 20 years governments have poured billions into the education system, overhauled the national curriculum again and again, reformed the school funding model (or not — but never mind that for now), beefed up teacher training standards, and expounded on the history, maths and reading...
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The three faces of Jew hatred
In this podcast I speak with distinguished historian Jeffrey Herf about the global wave of anti-Semitism unleashed in the aftermath of October 7. We discuss the Jew hatred of the right, the left and the Islamist movement — and how Hamas has seduced Western intellectuals into “magical thinking”...
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Israel, Jews and journalism
Amid a new Israel-Gaza war, the world reeling from unprecedented atrocities against Israeli civilians, former Age editor Michael Gawenda reflects on his life as a Jew — the title of his astonishing new book— and on what he sees as a troubling shift towards activist journalism. During the last...
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The ghost of Christopher Hitchens
Welcome to my inaugural podcast episode! I’m speaking here with journalist Matt Johnson about his latest book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment. The subject couldn’t be closer to my heart because: a) I’m an enduring fan of...
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My eclectic obsessions and musings. Gender identity, identity politics, politics, public education, class, old-school feminism.
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Julie Szego
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