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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia.

Quillette is where Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for

heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. You are about to hear a free preview of this

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I'm Ayona Italia, your host this week. My guest today is the historian Tiffany Jenkins,

the author of the book, Strangers and Intimates, The Rise and Fall of Private Life.

It's not a long book, but it covers a lot of ground both historically and philosophically.

Among other subjects, we talk about the evolution of the notion of a private sphere,

from the times of ancient Greece to the Victorian era,

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