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The martyrdom of St Trump
A conversation with Julien Hoez of The French Dispatch on political violence, the uses of blood and the increasing irrelevance of facts in democratic…
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Martin Gak
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37:06
The Hannibal Directive and its meaning
On the 7th of October, Israel put into action a program to kill its own citizens
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Martin Gak
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15:36

June 2024

Euroscopic S220: Fist fight in Italy's parliament, Macron lights a fuse on the EU
Yes, the “center” of European politics “held.” But oh dear are things fragile. Neither the German nor French political establishment enjoys much…
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Martin Gak
1:28:26
The Jewish Nakba
On Judaism and Jewish Values After Gaza
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Martin Gak
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Euroscopic S219: European elections, now what?
Let the somber postmortems and insider jockeying begin! The result of the 2024 European elections this week was, broadly speaking, what we all figured…
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Martin Gak
1:11:48
Euroscopic S218: EU elections are here. Go vote!
The nice thing about voting, other than that whole democracy thing, is it puts an end to months of filling airtime with unverifiable speculation. (Not…
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Martin Gak
1:07:16

May 2024

Euroscopic S217: Which EU party are you? We help you choose sides!
It’s not long now until citizens of the European Union vote for their next European Parliament and, in turn, the Commission. So it’s a good time for…
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Martin Gak
1:21:42
Euroscopic S216: Hitchhiker's guide to EU everything
Tech, climate, illiberalism. Any one of those is enough to fill a policymaker’s plate. So why not take on all three at once? It’s actually six, if you…
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Martin Gak
1:01:09
Euroscopic S215: Blurry Eurovision
If your kind of music is the sort of derivative spectacle that sounds like something you could have asked ChatGPT for (fwiw, I did that here), then the…
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Martin Gak
51:25
Euroscopic S214: Planes, trains, and automobiles
Germany’s national rail company, Deutsche Bahn, is not known for the most reliable infrastructure — physical or digital. So we rolled the dice running…
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Martin Gak
49:56
Euroscopic S213: On your mark, get set ...
William and Martin continue their criss-crossing of the European political order. With Martin in Vienna, among other places, he got a chance to talk to…
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Martin Gak
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April 2024

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