What should we have for dinner Trevor? We've got a few bits in the fridge.

Beets me, Connie.

Hang on, I'll use my phone.

How about a nice prawn curry?

Whoa, that's amazing, Connie. You got a chef living inside your phone

Not quite Trev at Argos.

Co. UK we have all the latest must-have including the new Google Pixel with

Gemini AI There's more yum to Argos. Subject to

availability delivery fee may apply. Can the phone wash the dishes too, Connie?

Welcome to the Quilette Podcast. I'm your host Jonathan Kay, a senior editor at Quillett.

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And today's guest is Bard College History Professor Sean McMekan, whose newly published book on the

history of communism was recently excerpted on the Quilat website.

As you may have guessed, Professor McMekan isn't scared off by big subjects.

But even for a renowned scholar such as this,

a full history of communism sandwiched between two covers

is a tall order.

But he pulls it off, based on my own reading, beginning with communism's early ideological roots in ancient and medieval history,

before proceeding through to Carl Marx and his disciples,

...