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D.D. Guttenplan on Ending the War in Gaza and John Powers on Slow Horses

On this episode of Start Making Sense, The Nation’s editor talks about the peace movement, and our critic reviews the British spy show on TV.

Jon Wiener

November 30, 2023

Israeli left-wing activists hold a demonstration near the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv on November 11, 2023, calling for a cease-fire amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas.(Ahmad Gharabli / AFP via Getty Images)

People with very different visions of what a just peace between Israel and the Palestinians might look like must work together to stop the war: That’s what D.D. Guttenplan argues. He’s the editor in chief of The Nation.

Also: Slow Horses, the British spy series based on the books by Mick Herron, is starting its third season this week. John Powers has our review.

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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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