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The Malpractice of Menopausal Medicine Reveals a Broken Medical System

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 23h

Healthcare for menopause and perimenopause is the single most patient-betraying area of medicine—but it has plenty of company.

Healthcare for menopause and perimenopause is the single most patient-betraying area of medicine—but it has plenty of company.

A Subterranean Celebration

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 1d

How the 6 Gallery reading in San Francisco on 7 October 1955 changed the counterculture.

How the 6 Gallery reading in San Francisco on 7 October 1955 changed the counterculture.

Podcast #305: Managing the Growing Gender-Critical Counterrevolution

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 1d

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks with Canadian Genspect director Mia Hughes about the emerging ‘gender glasnost’—and the best way to continue rolling back the excesses of trans activism.

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks with Canadian Genspect director Mia Hughes about the emerging ‘gender glasnost’—and the best way to continue rolling back the excesses of trans activism.

Donald Trump’s twenty-point peace proposal marks a potential turning point in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict—though whether it can be implemented remains uncertain.

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump’s twenty-point peace proposal marks a potential turning point in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict—though whether it can be implemented remains uncertain.

Trump’s Gaza Plan

A new book looks back on the making of Billy Wilder’s American classic.

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 2d

A new book looks back on the making of Billy Wilder’s American classic.

Out of the Past

In Defence of the Moynihan Report

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 4d

Sixty years later the Moynihan Report still divides us. American families have paid the price.

Sixty years later the Moynihan Report still divides us. American families have paid the price.

Jake Wallis Simons argues that Western democracies have abandoned their values and their Jews—and that Israel’s fight for survival is a warning the West cannot afford to ignore.

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 4d

Jake Wallis Simons argues that Western democracies have abandoned their values and their Jews—and that Israel’s fight for survival is a warning the West cannot afford to ignore.

The New Antisemitism

No, You Don’t Have a Disorder, You Have Feelings

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Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 5d

When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative.

When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative.

Better Than Bobby Fischer

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 7d

Danny Rensch never became the world’s greatest chess player. But his improbable rise from traumatised cult child to dot-com wunderkind represents an even more impressive achievement.

Danny Rensch never became the world’s greatest chess player. But his improbable rise from traumatised cult child to dot-com wunderkind represents an even more impressive achievement.

Liberalism v The Rule of Law

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 8d

Two recent Australian Federal Court judgments illustrate the good things that the rule of law may confer on a society, even when it conflicts with ideals like freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

Two recent Australian Federal Court judgments illustrate the good things that the rule of law may confer on a society, even when it conflicts with ideals like freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

Schrödinger’s Palestine: Einat Wilf on Statehood, Refugees, and Jewish Sovereignty

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 8d

Pamela Paresky speaks with Israeli intellectual and former Knesset member Einat Wilf about the contradictions of Palestinian statehood, the role of UNRWA, and the enduring rejection of Jewish sovereignty.

Pamela Paresky speaks with Israeli intellectual and former Knesset member Einat Wilf about the contradictions of Palestinian statehood, the role of UNRWA, and the enduring rejection of Jewish sovereignty.

Jon Lee Anderson’s powerful new book on Afghanistan reminds us that the justness of a cause is no guarantee of its success.

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 9d

Jon Lee Anderson’s powerful new book on Afghanistan reminds us that the justness of a cause is no guarantee of its success.

The Good War No More

The Liberal-International Order Will Survive

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 9d

...but it will need to be reimagined in the post-Trump era.

...but it will need to be reimagined in the post-Trump era.

In its quest to exploit Myanmar for diverse ends, the Chinese Communist Party keeps underestimating the state’s volatility.

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 11d

In its quest to exploit Myanmar for diverse ends, the Chinese Communist Party keeps underestimating the state’s volatility.

Dangerous Games

Jordan Castro’s new novel ‘Muscle Man’ offers a wry and meme-literate vision of blokey intellectualism.

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 12d

Jordan Castro’s new novel ‘Muscle Man’ offers a wry and meme-literate vision of blokey intellectualism.

Lifting Weights

The Masses and the Market

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 12d

If liberalism is to recover it must find a way to create the conditions for a better future.

If liberalism is to recover it must find a way to create the conditions for a better future.

Podcast #304: The End of Woke

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 13d

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to author Andrew Doyle about his new book, The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution.

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to author Andrew Doyle about his new book, The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution.

New political and technological developments have eased Australia’s path to becoming a major partner for America’s commercial space industry. We should seize the chance.

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 14d

New political and technological developments have eased Australia’s path to becoming a major partner for America’s commercial space industry. We should seize the chance.

Space for Australians

Angertainment capitalises on ordinary democratic conflict by selling it back to us as spectacle.

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 14d

Angertainment capitalises on ordinary democratic conflict by selling it back to us as spectacle.

Rage Is Now the Machine

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 16d

I post mostly on X. I have almost no followers on here, but I just try to keep my hand in from time to time.

Townsville, Queen of the Sea

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Mario Rustan @mariorustan.bsky.social · 25d

@ionaitalia.bsky.social in Townsville, northeast Australia.
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An underrated piece of paradise

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Glimpses of a beautiful life

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 16d

I didn't write this piece. It's an autoshare.

Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 16d

"There on the high ridge by Toowoomba, above the steamy heat of Brisbane, where the wallabies lope along beside the red-clay track as we take our morning walk, love is flourishing." My latest for The Second Swim 🏊. www.drionaitalia.com/p/love-on-th...

Love on the High Range

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Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · 16d

The modern CIA is everything its enemies and friends say it is—by turns heroic, villainous, duplicitous, servile, and frequently ineffective.

Working for the Company

The modern CIA is everything its enemies and friends say it is—by turns heroic, villainous, duplicitous, servile, and frequently ineffective.