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, you really must, and I suggest you start with this post, which we discuss at length here because in it David basically proves that the “woke”/intersectional/identity politics/regressive left brigade has a Jew problem. He rests his case on the 2018 book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, who he exquisitely calls “the American grievance huckster.” I’m so taken with his theory that I read aloud the incriminating passage in full!

We also yak about Clive James, George Orwell and the vicissitudes of this writing life. Listen, as they say, wherever you get your podcasts. Here’s the link to David’s Substack:

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