Quillette Podcast

Girls in an Online World

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:21:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to writer Freya India about her book 'Girls: Gen Z and the Commodification of Everything.'

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Documenting a Decade of Academic Meltdowns

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:45:00 -0000

Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock about her new CBC/BBC documentary, Speechless—which explores the rise of censorship and mobbings on campus.

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The Search for Truth

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:07:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to author Michael Shermer about his new book, Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters.

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The Historical Case for Israel

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:14:00 -0000

In a new book, U.S. District Court Judge Roy Altman traces Jews’ indigenous presence in the holy land over the last 3,231 years.

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The Ayatollahs' Assassins

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:08:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to Roya Hakakian about her book ‘Assassins of the Turquoise Palace’ and the past and present crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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When Everyone Knows Every Knows...

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:06:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker about his new book on Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life.

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Has the Gay Rights Revolution Gone Too Far for the Gay Community’s Own Good?

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:57:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University College London law professor Ronan McCrea about his new book, The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom.

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The Extraordinary Exploits of Agent Zo

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:36:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to historian Clare Mulley about her biography of Polish war heroine Elżbieta Zawacka, aka Agent Zo.

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Will Post-Islamist Iran Get a Royal Restoration?

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:31:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Iranian-Canadian human-rights activist Kaveh Shahrooz about whether Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the last Shah of Iran, might rise to power as a new Prince of Persia.

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Catching a Serial Killer

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:42:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Maureen Callaghan about her book American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century.

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Why We Need to Talk About Transgender School Shooters

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:05:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with journalist Adam Zivo about the 10 February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia—a mass murder perpetrated by a trans-identified male gunman who was initially identified by police and journalists as a woman.

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Guests of the Nation

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:24:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to writer Lionel Shriver about her new novel, A Better Life, which tackles the theme of immigration.

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British Columbia’s Radical Political Landscape

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:18:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with B.C. politician Dallas Brodie about why her province continues to promote dubious social-justice policies and myths—including the false claim that 215 dead Indigenous children were discovered four years ago in ‘unmarked graves.’

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The Demise of Private Life

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:36:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Tiffany Jenkins about her fascinating and provocative new history, 'Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.'

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Understanding Journalistic Groupthink

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:46:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Graham Majin about the recent scandal at the BBC, and the need for reporters to prevent the ‘poison of narrative’ from corrupting their craft

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Fighting for Freedom in Iran

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:01:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Iranian writer and journalist Roya Hakakian about the protests in Iran and why and how they might succeed.

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How to Think Like a Human

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:28:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to psychologist David Weitzner about the differences between human cognition and artificial intelligence.

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Christmas in Byzantium

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0000

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with History of Byzantium podcast host Robin Pierson about the Christian traditions and imperial culture that took root in the eastern half of the Roman Empire .

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Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadian by Choice

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:45:00 -0000

⁠Prisoner #1056⁠ author Roy Ratnavel discusses his journey from a prison cell in war-torn Sri Lanka to the heights of Canada’s financial industry—and the (sometimes politically incorrect) lessons about race, immigration, and multiculturalism he’s learned along the way.

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The Genius of Jane Austen

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:28:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Jane Austen scholar John Mullan to commemorate the 250th anniversary of her birth.

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Marriage and Divorce in America

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:24:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger about trends in marriage, divorce, and maternity in the US from the 1950s to the present day.

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A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer Radicalism, and ‘Scrupulosity’

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:58:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with writer Ben Appel about his new memoir, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic

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Jesse Brown’s Rude Awakening

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:21:00 -0000

In an interview with Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay, Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown discusses how an anti-Israel faction within his own subscriber base tried to cancel him after he began speaking out about the rise of antisemitism.

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Ancient Christianities: The First 500 Years

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:20:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with biblical scholar Paula Fredriksen, whose new book describes the theological diversity that existed among Christian communities before Nicene Christianity was adopted as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century.

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Finding Humor in Dark Places

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:51:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host speaks with ⁠Healing Roar⁠ founder and comedian Matthew Pettit, who candidly tells audiences about the severe childhood abuse that once propelled him into a life of sexual confusion, meth addiction, crime, and incarceration.

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A Crisis of Tolerance

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:00:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Harry Saul Markham about the increasingly acute threat of Islamism in the UK and the normalisation of virulent antisemitism among British Muslims.

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Is There a Politically Motivated ‘War on Science’? (And If So, Who’s Waging It?)

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:53:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss about ⁠his latest book projec⁠t, in which renowned scholars speak out about threats to open inquiry and the scientific process.

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Machetes in Melbourne

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:18:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to criminal justice researcher Andrew Bushnell about the many causes of the recent surge in crime in Melbourne.

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From Cult Child to Chess Wunderkind

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:36:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Danny Rensch about his astounding journey from the ‘Church of Immortal Consciousness’ to the role of Chief Chess Officer at Chess.com

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Desexing the Language of Motherhood

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:00:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Dr Karleen Gribble, who works in the field of maternal and infant health, on the impacts of desexed language on women’s healthcare and wellbeing.

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Managing the Growing Gender-Critical Counterrevolution

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 03:41:00 -0000

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.

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The End of Woke

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:34:00 -0000

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.

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When New Netherland Became New York

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:58:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Russell Shorto, whose new book chronicles the extraordinary events in 1664 that delivered Manhattan from the Dutch to the British.

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Should Feminists Work with the Right?

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:00:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith about her new book, Feminism Beyond Left and Right.

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RFK Jr.’s Unprecedented Attack on Life-saving Vaccines

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:18:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Stanford University infectious diseases expert Jake Scott about the perils of rolling back immunization treatments for COVID, RSV, and Measles.

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The Modular Mind

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:31:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist Rob Kurzban about his book Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind.

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A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:49:00 -0000

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Roya Hakakian about her extraordinary memoir, Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran.

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What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped Brain’?

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:45:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to linguist, mathematician, and tournament organizer John Chew about the world of ultra-elite Scrabble word-masters.

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Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:17:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to novelist and historian Nev March about how a series of landmark court cases in the 19th and 20th centuries upended both the Indian legal system and the Parsi community.

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How LGB Became Estranged from T

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:25:00 -0000

Gay activist-turned-journalist Adam Zivo explains how radicalized forms of trans and queer advocacy became a liability to the once-united LGBT movement.

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War and the End of Empire

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:07:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to historian and film-maker Phil Craig about the latest in his series of books about World War II: 1945: A Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World.

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When Entertainment Reporting Gets Political

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:44:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host interviews veteran entertainment journalist Ben Mulroney—whose career has taken him to the Oscars red carpet and Kelly Ripa’s studio—about how ideological fads have damaged his industry.

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The First Journalists

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:10:00 -0000

The philosopher Stephen Harrop interviews Quillette’s Managing Editor Iona Italia about her book Anxious Employment on the journalism of Enlightenment London.

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Social Work Without Stereotypes

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 02:27:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Heterodox Academy scholar Nafees Alam about the need to challenge political orthodoxies in the field of social work.

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Science vs Māori Knowledge

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 03:43:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to Professor Kendall Clements of the University of Auckland about attempts to conflate traditional Maori knowledge with science, which, he argues, debases both.

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The Wars Before the War

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:09:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews Jonathan Spyer, director of research at the Middle East Forum, about how Israel laid the groundwork for its war with Iran by confronting threats in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

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The Catastrophe Hour

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 03:30:00 -0000

Writer Meghan Daum talks to Iona Italia about her new essay collection, The Catastrophe Hour.

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Enforced Ideological Conformity Among British Artists

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:04:00 -0000

Dancer and choreographer Rosie Kay talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the three radioactive political topics that can derail an artist’s career.

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The Problem With ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’

Sat, 31 May 2025 20:36:00 -0000

Harvard professor Steven Pinker tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why Donald Trump’s campaign against his university’s ‘woke’ policies goes too far.

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Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Free-Speech Principles?

Mon, 26 May 2025 15:53:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Ellie Avishai—who recently lost her affiliated position at UATX after she pushed back against the school’s strident anti-DEI messaging.

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The Green Delusion

Fri, 16 May 2025 06:10:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to engineer Paul Brown about the hidden costs of renewables and the skewed incentives that are driving some countries towards unsustainable energy policies.

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Lessons from the Luddites on Adapting to AI

Sat, 10 May 2025 01:04:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Washington Post columnist and TED Talker Megan McArdle about the short-term pain—and long-term gain—heralded by the AI revolution.

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Free Speech in Australia

Fri, 02 May 2025 01:36:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to Alan Davidson about censorship, self-censorship, the Online Safety Act and other threats to free speech in Australia.

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Canada’s Strange Election Season

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 02:44:00 -0000

In advance of Monday’s nation-wide vote, Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay discusses Justin Trudeau’s resignation, Pierre Poilievre’s bad luck, the rise of Mark Carney, and the effects of Donald Trump’s aggressive protectionism on Canadian politics.

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Making the Case for ‘Free-Range Parenting’

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:49:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author and TED Talker Lenore Skenazy, whose campaign to give children more opportunities for independent play and learning once earned her the title of ‘America’s Worst Mother.’

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The Trouble with Tariffs

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:19:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to John H. Cochrane aka "The Grumpy Economist" about the motivations, effects and implications of Donald Trump's economic policies.

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How Accurate Is 'Adolescence'?

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 04:34:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to William Costello, an evolutionary psychologist whose work focuses on incels, about what the Netflix series 'Adolescence' gets right and wrong about this group.

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The Scourge of the ‘Woke Right’

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:27:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author and satirist Andrew Doyle about the worrying rise of illiberal ideologies and cultish political tendencies among conservatives.

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Anti-Zionism, Past and Present

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:23:00 -0000

Quillette’s Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to scholar Izabella Tabarovsky about the Soviet roots of contemporary anti-Zionism and antisemitism.

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On Book Banning

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 05:30:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with book author Ira Wells about the censorship demands emanating from both sides of the political spectrum.

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Christianity and the American Polity

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:53:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to Brookings Institution senior fellow Jonathan Rauch about his latest book, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy.

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Australia’s Antisemitism Crisis

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 04:31:00 -0000

Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann speaks with Bangladeshi-born Australian psychiatrist and journalist Tanveer Ahmed about the rise of Jew-hatred in their country.

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The Great Divergence

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:01:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes have been growing more salient in western societies.

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The Canadian Episode: Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s Travails

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 04:35:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape.

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‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 05:23:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism.

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'The Power of Nuclear'

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:10:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Iona Italia speaks with Dutch writer Marco Visscher, author of The Power of Nuclear: The Rise, Fall and Return of Our Mightiest Energy Source.

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The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:02:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Southern California scholar William Deverell about the enormous fires that have destroyed large swathes of the Los Angeles area.

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Reading and Writing Science

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 21:38:20 -0000

Iona Italia talks to eminent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about science, literature, and genetics.

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Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas?

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:30:00 -0000

In a special yuletide episode, Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Crowther about seventeenth-century puritan attitudes toward yuletide debauchery—and about his acclaimed History of England podcast.

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'A Theory of Everyone'

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:34:58 -0000

Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of A Theory of Everyone, about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything.

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In Defence of Julia the Elder

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 21:48:36 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Joan Smith, whose new book critically examines the 2,000-year-old propaganda campaign against imperial Rome’s leading women.

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'Interintellect and the Modern-Day Salon'

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:40:22 -0000

Iona Italia talks to globetrotter and intellectual magpie Anna Gat about her modern-day salon, Interintellect.

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Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 07:29:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay discusses recent events at the University of Western Ontario, where instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights.

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'Making Britain Great Again'

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:00:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to Sam Bowman about how to combat the economic stagnation and excess bureaucracy that are currently preventing the UK from reaching its full potential.

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The Campaign Against 'Settler Colonialism’

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:23:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Adam Kirsch about the growing corps of academics and activists seeking to demonize ‘settler colonialists’ in North America, Australia—and especially Israel.

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Canadian Bureaucracy and Its Discontents

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 23:52:58 -0000

Iona Italia talks to Nick Osmond-Jones about the impacts of some absurd DEI directives on Canadian public service.

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How Universities Should Regulate Contentious Speech

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:51:43 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with prolific Harvard University legal scholar Cass Sunstein about his new book, Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide

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Unreliable Sources

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:31:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to Jack Despain Zhou (aka "Tracing Woodgrains") about the decline of standards at Wikipedia as a result of the obsessive efforts of ideologically motivated editors.

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We Have Never Been Woke

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:41:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with scholar Musa al-Gharbi, whose acclaimed new book analyses the rise of progressive ideological orthodoxy as a means for elites to signal status and accumulate ‘cultural capital.’

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In Defence of Beauty with Megan Gafford

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 04:08:22 -0000

Iona Italia talks to artist Megan Gafford about how we have come to value statement-making over beauty and craftsmanship in art and architecture. To listen to the full episode, please become a Quillette subscriber https://quillette.com/#/portal/signup

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A Brief History of Communism with Sean McMeekin

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 04:50:33 -0000

Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin about his new book, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism. To listen to the full episode, please become a Quillette subscriber https://quillette.com/#/portal/signup

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'Trans Rights, Israel and the Progressive Circus' with Brianna Wu

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0000

'Trans Rights, Israel and the Progressive Circus' with Brianna Wu. Iona Italia talks to Democratic political campaigner Brianna Wu about finding a more sensible approach to trans rights and combating progressive insanity.

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Tracing the Rise of Radicalized Anti-Zionism on American Campuses

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 04:50:55 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Paul Berman about the lingering influence of ’Black Power’ advocate Stokely Carmichael, who once infamously claimed that ’the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.’

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'Israel: Germany's Reason of State'

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:00:00 -0000

Podcast host Iona Italia talks to Gerfried Ambrosch about pro-Israel feeling on the German Left, antisemitism among Muslim immigrants and why Israel’s safety is “Germany’s reason of state.”

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The (Other) Scandal at Oberlin College

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:31:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Roya Hakakian about the rise and fall of Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, a former Iranian official who’d presented himself to Oberlin as an agent of peace and ‘forgiveness.’

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Bridging Divides Between Democrats and Republicans

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:59:00 -0000

Podcast host Iona Italia talks to John Wood, Jr. of Braver Angels about building a stronger democratic consensus in America.

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Should Imane Khelif be allowed to box against women?

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 05:17:29 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Manchester Developmental Biologist Emma Hilton about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who won the gold medal in the women's welterweight event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, despite widely reported indications that Khelif may be biologically male.

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How Gender Activists Took Over a Scottish Rape-Crisis Centre

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 03:26:37 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Joan Smith about the scandals that unfolded at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre under the leadership of its male trans-identified CEO, Mridul Wadhwa.

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'How We Form Our Political Beliefs' with Oliver Traldi

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:18:00 -0000

Iona Italia talked to Oliver Traldi about his recent book, Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction. They discussed a number of philosophical questions with implications for everyone who is keenly interested in politics. What do we mean when we describe something as political? How do we form our political beliefs? Why do those views tend to cluster around certain anchoring beliefs? Is the marketplace of ideas a good metaphor for the way in which we arrive at political opinions? Why is politics so adversarial and is that a good thing? How does identity figure into this? And why should we take an interest in politics at all?

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'Language vs. Reality' with Nick Enfield

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:35:00 -0000

Iona Italia interviews linguistic anthropologist Nick Enfield about why language is good for lawyers and bad for scientists.

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The Freedom to Blaspheme

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:42:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay speaks to fellow podcast host Kushal Mehra about the ‘eerie similarities’ between censorship campaigns in India and Canada.

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'Life on Mars' with Robert Zubrin

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 08:16:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to the president of the Mars Society, Robert Zubrin, who explains the intellectual, economic, social, and ecological advantages of settling the Red Planet and how to overcome the challenges of doing so.

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Protest? Polite Pass

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 02:32:00 -0000

New York Times columnist Pamela Paul tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why standing around yelling slogans isn’t her preferred way of changing the world.

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'Parsi Bombay Then and Now' with Nev March

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 23:00:00 -0000

Iona Italia talks to Nev March about her novel, Murder in Old Bombay, set in late 19th-century India and about the Zoroastrians of Bombay past and present.

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Justin Trudeau’s Ominous Online Harms Act: ‘Minority Report’ Comes to Canada

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 02:05:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic Magazine staff writer Conor Friedersdorf about an alarmingly censorious government bill that would allow officials to punish Canadians for things they haven’t done yet.

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Supporting Trans People Without Denying the Facts of Biology

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:50:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Duke University law school professor (and former U.S. National Collegiate athletic champion) Doriane Lambelet Coleman about her new book, On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach.

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Technology Is Not the Problem

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:19:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Timandra Harkness about her new book on technology, micro-targeting, personalisation and narcissism.

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The (Culture) War Diaries of Nellie Bowles

Wed, 22 May 2024 17:50:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Morning After the Revolution author Nellie Bowles about her tragicomic journalistic adventures amid progressive true believers and ideological enforcers—from the offices of The New York Times to the streets of Seattle and San Francisco.

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'Recovery from Rape' with Larissa Phillips

Wed, 22 May 2024 02:05:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Larissa Phillips about the best ways to prevent rape and promote victims' recovery.

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Experiencing Autogynephilia

Mon, 06 May 2024 19:49:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to self-described 'Transsexual Apostate’ Debbie Hayton about the link between male sexual self-attraction and transgender self-identification.

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Fighting Back Against Progressive ‘Neo-Racism’

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:11:43 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Coleman Hughes about his acclaimed new book, The End of Race: Politics Arguments for a Colorblind America.

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Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:31:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with fellow podcaster Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy, a “community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations about subjects that don’t come with easy solutions.”

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Is Israel Really Committing Genocide in Gaza?

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 02:20:00 -0000

University of Florida historian Norman Goda tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he isn’t persuaded by South Africa’s claims against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

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Leaving MAGA

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 05:07:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Rich Logis, a one-time fervent Donald Trump supporter who’s now renounced his MAGA beliefs—and is trying to help others do the same.

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The Fine Line Between Denouncing ‘Settler Colonialism’ and Supporting Terrorism

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 05:09:00 -0000

Atlantic magazine writer Michael Powell talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his latest article—The Curious Rise of Settler Colonialism and Turtle Island—in which he explains how activists are weaponizing fashionable academic doctrines to delegitimize the existence of Israel, the United States, and other Western societies.

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How ‘Intersectional Feminism’ Got Hijacked by Men

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:46:00 -0000

Veteran feminist activist, author, and pundit Julie Bindel talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the need to protect hard-won women’s rights from gender ideologues.

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The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Justinian

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 05:44:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Cambridge University historian Peter Sarris about his new book on Justinian the Great, the lowborn sixth century Byzantine emperor who remade Roman law, suppressed Christian heresies, built architectural wonders, and reconquered lost lands.

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The October 7 Terrorist Attacks, in Historical Perspective

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 02:38:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to influential Israeli historian Benny Morris about Hamas’ acts of mass murder, the Israeli response, and the future of Gaza.

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Eric Kaufmann’s New ‘Centre for Heterodox Social Science’

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 01:07:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with political scientist Eric Kaufmann about cancel culture, switching universities, and why academics need to have honest conversations about the down side of immigration.

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The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash aka DJ Hookie

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 01:41:00 -0000

Quillette editor and podcast host Iona Italia talks with speaker, DJ, and quadruple amputee Tom Nash about his new book, ‘Hook, Line, and Sinner.’

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Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 05:07:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychotherapist and book author Stella O’Malley, and parent “Josie A.,” about the need to heed parents’ voices before “affirming” a child’s desire for gender-transition therapies.

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Tracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (Formerly) Known as Wokeness

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 23:53:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Johns Hopkins University professor Yascha Mounk about the role of Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in shaping today’s illiberal, identity-fixated political mantras—and how we can help lead progressives back to their liberal roots.

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Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:02:00 -0000

Quillette associate editor Iona Italia interviews journalist John Colapinto, whose book "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl" chronicles the life of David Reimer, a Canadian man who was born as Bruce Reimer and subjected to a controversial and ultimately unsuccessful gender-reassignment following a botched circumcision.

The book delves into the psychological, ethical, and medical complexities of David's life, from the surgical accident and subsequent interventions to his struggle with his gender identity. It also serves as a critique of Dr. John Money's theories on gender plasticity and the ethics of imposing a gender identity on a child unable to provide informed consent.

Colapinto interviews various people involved in the case, including David Reimer himself, his family, and professionals who later questioned Money's work. The book paints a detailed picture of the Reimer family's ordeal, David's internal struggles, and the professional controversies that the case stirred up.

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Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious Movements

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 02:06:00 -0000

Indian-Canadian podcast host Kushal Mehra interviews Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the radicalized beliefs and unsettling rituals that now characterize performative progressive politics in Canada and the rest of the Western world.

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Talking Science and Substacking in ‘Nash Vegas‘

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 05:06:00 -0000

Podcast host Jonathan Kay shares a Nashville breakfast with journalist Christina Buttons and her Quillette-alumnus boyfriend, Colin Wright, author of the popular Substack, Reality’s Last Stand

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When DEI ‘Training’ Becomes a Pretext for Bullying and Harassment: A Tragic Canadian Case Study

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 03:35:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with municipal politician Bill Dennis about diversity consultant Kike Ojo-Thompson, whose training methods became infamous following the recent suicide of Toronto educator Richard Bilkszto (1963-2023).

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McMaster University’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:44:00 -0000

Lawrence Krauss, host of The Origins Podcast, interviews Jonathan Kay about his Quillette investigation into the spread of false rape allegations on a Canadian university campus in 2020—and the lessons that can be learned.

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Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 03:14:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to acclaimed historian Orlando Figes, whose new book traces Russia’s political dysfunction back to the age of Byzantium and the Mongol invasion.

This podcast is also available on YouTube.

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'Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist' with Henry Rambow

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 02:19:00 -0000

Iona Italia speaks with Henry Rambow, whose Hate No More podcast tells the story of “Casper,” a one-time leader of the State Prison Skinheads.

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Whom is the Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Industry Actually Helping?

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:40:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf about his recent article, The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege.

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Bastardizing Beethoven, Mangling Mozart

Fri, 19 May 2023 03:29:00 -0000

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Meghan Murphy on Sex, Feminism, Sports, Fast Food, The Walking Dead, Mexico, and Some Like It Hot

Sun, 07 May 2023 01:16:00 -0000

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Kellie-Jay Keen on Protecting Women, and Facing Down Aggressive Gender-Rights Mobs

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:47:00 -0000

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A Sample Episode from Our New Quillette Narrated Podcast: Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal, by Nina Paley

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 04:45:07 -0000

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Youth Gender Dysphoria and Social Contagion: Exploring the Latest Research

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 05:27:00 -0000

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Keeping Biological Males Out of Women’s Swimming

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:30:16 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to NCAA backstroke champion-turned-activist Marshi Smith about her years in the pool, the Lia Thomas controversy, and Smith’s campaign to protect the integrity of female sport.

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In Defence of the British Empire

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 05:36:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar, author of a newly published, best-selling book that examines the mixed legacy of British colonial rule.

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Fair Play for Female Athletes—Then and Now

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 05:11:06 -0000

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The Fight to Provide Gender Dysphoric Children with Holistic Therapy Instead of Instant ‘Affirmation’

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 06:42:00 -0000

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Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard: The Definitive Postmortem from an Unlikely Expert

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 04:56:00 -0000

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From Golden Girls Superfan to Right-Wing Culture Warrior: The Strange Journey of Dave Rubin

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 22:48:00 -0000

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Discovering Your Inner ‘Demisexual’

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:46:00 -0000

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A Marriage Lost to Gender Identity

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 04:51:00 -0000

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How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the Guggenheim Museum’s Top Curator

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:55:51 -0000

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Sahar Tartak on Fighting Back Against Coerced ‘Anti-Racist’ Indoctrination in American Education

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 23:18:00 -0000

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Jonathan Kay on the State of Journalism, the Perils of Audience Capture, and the Art of Podcasting

Sun, 23 Oct 2022 03:24:11 -0000

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Andrew Lawton on the Political Legacy of Canada’s 2022 ‘Freedom Convoy’

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:33:00 -0000

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Kushal Mehra on the Explosive Growth of YouTube in India

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 20:27:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Indian podcaster and YouTuber Kushal Mehra about the raucous, angry, informative, and often hilarious world of Indian YouTube.

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From VisiCalc to Global Cloud Computing: Lessons from a Lifelong Love Affair with Digital Technology

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 16:59:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to veteran Microsoft program manager, R&D coordinator, tablet-computing pioneer, and workplace visionary David Jones about the joy of spreadsheets, the art of “schedule chicken,” Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and “Clippy,” everyone’s least favourite digital office assistant.

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When Workplace Anti-Racism Training Goes Off the Rails

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 01:53:00 -0000

Nicole Levitt tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay what happened when diversity consultants were hired to teach the mantras of social justice to staff at her Philadelphia-based non-profit organization.

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Meet the 80-Year-Old Feminist Who Got Banned From the YMCA for Protesting Male Bodies in the Women‘s Locker Room

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 05:07:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to Port Townsend, WA-area swimmer Julie Jaman, the octogenarian whose efforts to keep biological men out of a changing area reserved for girls and women led to accusations of transphobia, a visit with the police, multiple town-council debates, and an ongoing Twitter campaign called #LetJulieSwim.

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Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong?

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 20:03:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to National Post reporter Terry Glavin about the blockbuster 2021 claim that hundreds of murdered Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves, the process by which that story began to unravel in the year that followed, and what the whole spectacle tells us about Canada’s intellectual class.

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Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Privileged Class

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 06:38:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Swedish Marxist Malcom Kyeyune, who argues that nominally progressive theories of race and gender are actually aimed at securing influence, employment, and prestige for underemployed university graduates.

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James Kirchick on ‘Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington’

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:24:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author James Kirchick about the closeted lives of gay men living and working in America's capital during the Cold War.

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Richard Dawkins on the Wonders of Flight

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:25:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about his new book on the science and mythology of life in the air—from puffins and flying squirrels to fairies and angels

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‘Sex Realism’ Versus ‘Sex Denialism’: Is the Tide Finally Turning Against Gender Ideology?

Sun, 05 Jun 2022 04:30:00 -0000

Economist editor Helen Joyce, author of ‘Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality,’ explains to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why biology must trump politics when it comes to defining who is a woman and who is a man.

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Progressive Social Panic at Yale and Princeton

Mon, 23 May 2022 19:45:00 -0000

Reporter Aaron Sibarium talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his recent scoops concerning the campaign against anti-woke Princeton classics professor Joshua Katz, and the unsettling radicalism of student activists at Yale Law School

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How Elon Musk Can Promote Free Speech—Without Turning Twitter Into One Big ‘Dumpster Fire’

Sun, 08 May 2022 20:45:00 -0000

Veteran technology expert Jim Rutt tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the hard lessons he’s learned over four decades of creating and implementing content-moderation standards on numerous social-media platforms.

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Rob Montz on Harvard University’s Campaign Against One of Its Most Famous (and Politically Incorrect) Black Professors

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 05:19:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with documentary filmmaker Rob Montz about self-made education expert Roland G. Fryer Jr.—who bucked Harvard’s progressive party line on race and education, and then got targeted with dubious harassment claims.

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Frances Widdowson on the Questions Canadians Aren't Supposed to Ask About Unmarked Graves

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:51:00 -0000

Former Mount Royal University professor Frances Widdowson describes the political, academic, and journalistic taboos surrounding the fate of Indigenous residential-school students in western Canada.

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Shmuel Bar on the War in Ukraine, and the Failure of Western Deterrence

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 04:19:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to intelligence expert Shmuel Bar about why Putin bungled the war in Ukraine, why NATO didn't do enough to deter the Russians, and what happens next.

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Sam Harris on Islam, Dropping Acid, Joe Rogan, Vaccine Pseudoscience, the Wonders of Meditation, Collaborating with Ricky Gervais, and the Myth of Free Will

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 02:07:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay asks neuroscientist, philosopher, best-selling author, and celebrity podcaster Sam Harris about the key to living a fulfilling and satisfying life (and whether it‘s okay to tell your children they’re bad at sports)

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Russia's Surprising Military Blunders in Ukraine: A Strategic Analysis

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 03:28:00 -0000

Royal Military College professor Scott Maloney and Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay discuss the state of the war in Ukraine, and consider what Vladimir Putin will do to salvage his widely denounced invasion.

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Jacob Mchangama on His New Book, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media"

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:57:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Copenhagen-based think-tank scholar and podcaster Jacob Mchangama about why so many human societies have a difficult time tolerating dissent and heresy

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Chris Best on Substack's Commitment to Free Speech

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 05:43:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Substack's founder and CEO about empowering writers through free expression (and his company's new, foosball-table-free San Francisco offices)

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Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' Protesters, in Their Own Words

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 06:34:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Paisley and Jay VanderWier, two of the many ordinary working-class Canadians who’ve assembled in Ottawa to protest restrictive government COVID policies.

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Christopher J. Ferguson on Racist Orcs, Ableist Adventures, and Non-Binary Monsters: Can 'Dungeons & Dragons' Survive Wokeness?

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 04:35:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychology professor Christopher J. Ferguson about his newly published academic paper, "Are Orcs Racist? Dungeons and Dragons, Ethnocentrism, Anxiety, and the Depiction of 'Evil' Monsters"

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Michael Shermer: Watching 'Scientific American' Go Woke

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 20:06:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to book author and Skeptic editor Michael Shermer about why scientific media, professional organizations, and academic departments are increasingly succumbing to progressive ideological fads.

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New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat on His Hellish Experience with Lyme Disease

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 04:52:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat about how his new book—which explores both his own fight against chronic Lyme disease, and the controversy surrounding the condition within the medical community

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Jonathan Kay on Middle Age, Watch Collecting, Sports Cars, Board Games, and Disc Golf

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 21:34:00 -0000

Quillette's Jonathan Kay ends 2021 by speaking to Bob Tarantino about the things he does when he isn't hosting the Quillette podcast.

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Paul Lockhart on How Guns Transformed Western Civilization

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:03:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Wright State University professor Paul Lockhart about the enormous military and political upheavals set in motion by the adoption of gunpowder-based weapons from the 13th Century onward—including the demise of the medieval castle, the empowerment of large centralized states, and the deployment of permanent standing armies.

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Trent Colbert Turns the Tables on Yale Law School's Kafkaesque Diversity Department

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 14:11:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks with second-year law student Trent Colbert, who recorded YLS Diversity Director Yaseen Eldik and Associate Dean Ellen Cosgrove as they tried to strongarm him into a public confession.

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Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Growing Gulf Between Ordinary Americans and the Progressive Journalists Who Cover Them

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:07:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Newsweek editor Batya Ungar-Sargon about her new book, "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy"—and her political voyage from doctrinaire progressive to self-described "left-wing populist"

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Nancy Segal on Lessons in Human Nature Revealed by Identical Twins

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 00:21:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with California State University professor Nancy Segal about her career spent studying twins, and her new book, Deliberately Divided.

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Michael Shellenberger on How Progressive Activists Are Making American Cities Poorer, Dirtier, and More Dangerous

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:11:00 -0000

Author Michael Shellenberger speaks with Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his new book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

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Will Storr on Our Insatiable Appetite for Status

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:00:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Will Storr about his new book detailing the profound role of status-seeking in shaping human societies

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Harvard Professor Steven Pinker on How to Think Rationally, the Monty Hall Problem, Kurt Gödel, and the Case for Objective Truth

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 05:16:00 -0000

'Enlightenment Now' author Steven Pinker speaks with Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his newly published book, 'Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters'

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Jonathan Haidt on Instagram’s Mental Health Emergency

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:48:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with NYU professor and “Coddling of the American Mind” Co-Author Jonathan Haidt about the emotionally destructive effect of social media on many young users

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Vivek Ramaswamy on the 'Woke Smoke' Blown by Corporate America

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 21:20:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with 36-year-old biotech entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy about how corporate elites burnish their progressive bona fides (and distract their critics) with anti-racism slogans and hashtags—instead of taking concrete steps to address real inequalities within their organizations.

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Josh Szeps on the Myth of Australia's COVID 'Concentration Camps'

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 03:35:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay interviews TV host and podcaster Josh Szeps about Australia's unique experience in managing the COVID pandemic—and the urban legends the country's quarantine system has spawned among right-wing pundits on the other side of the world

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'Grievance Studies' Hoaxster Peter Boghossian on Quitting Portland State, and His Mission to Bring Intellectual Pluralism Back to Universtiy Education

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 04:15:00 -0000

Philosopher Peter Boghossian tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he no longer felt he could provide his students with a proper education in the current ideological climate.

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Comedian and Podcaster Jamie Kilstein on His COVID-Era Struggles

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 03:41:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Jamie Kilstein about the challenges he's faced since his excommunication from California's progressive entertainment circles

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Satirist Simon Edge on His New Novel, 'The End of the World Is Flat,' a Send-up of Radical Gender Politics

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:16:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Simon Edge about his new book, in which a fictional flat-earth advocacy group campaigns against the idea of a spherical earth (not to mention the 'globularist' 'TERGs' who oppose the new 'True Earth' orthodoxy) in the name of social justice.

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Journalist and Book Author Terry Glavin on the Fall of Kabul and the Fate of Afghanistan

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 04:12:00 -0000

Host Jonathan Kay interviews Afghanistan expert Terry Glavin about the complex mix of warlords and foreign players who may seek to undo the country’s takeover by Taliban forces

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Comedian Jessica Pigeau on 'Safe Space' Performers, Progressive Mobbing, and Anxiety Overload in the World of Stand-Up

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:02:00 -0000

Host Jonathan Kay interviews Vancouver-based queer comedian Jessica Pigeau about her recent Quillette essay describing the clash between good comedy and strident social-justice activism

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Author Milli Hill on the Growth of Social Justice Mobs Among Birthing Activists, Dhoullas, and Midwives

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:48:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with British writer Milli Hill about the online mob that accused her of transphobia in late 2020—and why she still refuses to describe women as "birthing people."

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Jonathan Kay on Life at Quillette, The New York Times, FOX News, Seth Rogen, Dog Shampoo, His New Book, and Childhood Vacations at Del Boca Vista

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 04:46:00 -0000

Quillette editor and podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Bernstein, founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, about his life as a journalist and self-described “lapsed Jew”

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Glenn Loury on America's Political Polarization and the 2020 Election

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:21:00 -0000

Veteran professor and public intellectual Glenn Loury is interviewed by Australia's Josh Szeps for Quillette's Free Thought Live series. Professor Loury discusses America's political polarization, black voters, American history, and the 2020 election.

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Christopher Rufo’s Whirlwind Campaign Against Critical Race Theory

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:02:00 -0000

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to activist Christopher Rufo about his new status as conservative intellectual celebrity—and asks whether the rising opposition to progressive ideological radicalism can go too far

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Christian Toto on Progressive Ideological Inroads Into Children’s Shows, Anti-Racist Baby Books, And… Breakfast Cereal

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 12:56:00 -0000

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks to film writer Christian Toro about the increasingly direct identity-politics messaging that now is being pushed on North American toddlers.

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Heather Mac Donald on The Juilliard School's Strange Anti-Racist Meltdown

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 22:58:00 -0000

Quillette's Jonathan Kay speaks to City Journal writer Heather Mac Donald about how a single drama workshop caused Juilliard students to feel "traumatized"—sparking an activist campaign aimed at undermining the elite performing-arts school's famously rigorous standards.

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Jonathan Rauch on the importance of free speech in an age of misinformation

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:33:00 -0000

Quillette's Toby Young talks to free speech advocate and Brookings Institution Fellow Jonathan Rauch about his new book The Constitution of Knowledge.

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Michael Shermer on Our Enduring Fascination with UFOs

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 03:35:00 -0000

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to UFO expert Michael Shermer about why we keep searching the skies for signs of alien visitors (and why we always come away disappointed)

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Nicholas Wade Explains Why It’s No Longer Taboo to Ask Whether COVID-19 Was Caused by a Chinese Lab Leak

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 18:42:00 -0000

Quillette’s Razib Khan speaks with veteran science writer Nicholas Wade about why so many scientists and journalists are now exploring theories about the origins of COVID-19 that, not so long, ago, were being dismissed as conspiracy theories.

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Kenny Xu on Asian-Americans' Success, And Their Complicated Placement in the Progressive ‘Intersectional’ Hierarchy

Fri, 28 May 2021 16:52:00 -0000

Host Jonathan Kay speaks with conservative activist, book author, and Quillette contributor Kenny Xu about the pressures that Asian-Americans now face to toe the line on progressive race orthodoxies—including acquiescing to their own unfavorable treatment in elite school admissions

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Author Helen Pluckrose on the Role of Postmodernism in the Construction of Modern Social-Justice Dogmas

Tue, 25 May 2021 02:48:00 -0000

Quillette founder Claire Lehmann speaks with “Cynical Theories” co-author (and Grievance Studies Hoax collaborator) Helen Pluckrose about the influence of postmodern ideas in the formulation of the latest iterations of Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and other “intersectional” doctrines

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Lingnan University scholar Peter Baehr on Academic Life Within Hong Kong’s Increasingly Repressive Political Atmosphere

Fri, 14 May 2021 14:12:00 -0000

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Hong Kong-based professor Peter Baehr about the many ways in which free speech and democratic politics are being suppressed by China’s mainland communist government,

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A Short Message From Quillette: Here's How to Help Us Make Our Podcast Better

Wed, 12 May 2021 01:47:00 -0000

Want to suggest a topic or guest, critique a segment, or just let us know what you think? We want to hear from you.

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Bernard Lane on the Fight for a More Balanced Approach Toward Children and Teens Seeking Medicalized Gender Change

Mon, 10 May 2021 13:52:00 -0000

Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to The Australian writer Bernard Lane about the severe risks associated with rushing gender dysphoric children into puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery—and the rising tide of concerned parents who are pushing back against the campaign to reflexively ‘affirm’ children’s beliefs about their inner identity.

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Richard Hanania on the Real Reason Progressives Are Winning the Culture War: They Just Want It More

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:59:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Richard Hanania, President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, about his much-discussed essay, “Why is Everything Liberal? Cardinal Preferences Explain Why All Institutions are Woke”

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Michael Shellenberger on the Case for Nuclear Power, Progressive Hypocrisy on Energy Policy, and His New book, ‘Apocalypse Never’

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 19:14:00 -0000

Quillette founder Claire Lehmann talks to author and activist Michael Shellenberger about how environmental alarmism and ideological blind spots often prevent us from having a rational discussion about the best way to address climate change while growing national economies

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Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 03:44:00 -0000

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the course of the Second World War

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James Kirchick on 'The Disintegration of the ACLU'

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:19:00 -0000

Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to author James Kirchick about his recent Tablet article documenting how the American Civil Liberties Union abandoned its core mission in favor of doctrinaire progressive politics

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Daphne Merkin on the Baseless Abuse Claims Against Woody Allen—And Why The Media Refuses to Let Them Die

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 02:24:00 -0000

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to journalist Daphne Merkin, author of a widely discussed 2018 New York Magazine article on Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, about HBO’s highly torqued documentary, 'Allen v. Farrow,' and the dubious claims it contains.

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Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten on Portland's Descent Into Violence—And Why They Finally Decided to Flee

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 04:00:00 -0000

Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to two ex-Portlanders about how the COVID-19 pandemic and a year of violent protests turned their once beloved city into a fractured, downwardly mobile arena for America's culture war.

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Psychiatrist Andrew Lustig on the Conspiracist Internet Subculture of ‘Gangstalking’

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:47:00 -0000

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks to Canadian researcher Andrew Lustig about his research on the web-based communities of individuals who believe they are surrounded by evidence of an enormous “gangstalking” conspiracy, involving dozens or even hundreds of individuals, aimed at causing them to become insane or commit suicide.

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Evolutionary Psychologist (and Twitter Hit Man) Gad Saad on the ‘Cesspool’ in Academia, Hollywood’s Man-Children, and His New Book, ‘The Parasitic Mind’

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 02:25:00 -0000

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Concordia University marketing professor Gad Saad about his take-no-prisoners social-media style, Lebanese politics, and the inner ideological life of Seth Rogen

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Andrew Doyle—The Brain Behind Titania McGrath—on His New (And Very Serious) Book, ‘Free Speech And Why It Matters’

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 03:49:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay interviews comedian, social critic, and book author Andrew Doyle on why he thinks government censors are a bigger threat to a free society than the bigots they’re seeking to cancel.

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Literary Critic (and Sopranos Cameo Actor) Leon Wieseltier on His New Magazine, the Meaning of Forgiveness, and His Favorite Car-Chase Movies

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 04:45:00 -0000

Host Jonathan Kay talks to long-time New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier about ‘Liberties,’ the ambitious literary journal he founded after getting Me-Too’d—and many other subjects besides, including the future of journalism, the innocence of Woody Allen, the allure of jazz music, and Nicolas Cage’s underrated cinematic masterpiece, 'Gone In 60 Seconds'

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Sociologist Nathalie Heinich on French Academics' Opposition to America's Race-Based Ideologies

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:02:00 -0000

Quillette's Jonathan Kay speaks to eminent French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, founder of a new organization that opposes the spread of America's race-fixated academic movements into French campuses. While many conservatives have traditionally complained about the excesses of "French theory," Prof. Heinich argues, many harmful ideas are now crossing the Atlantic in the opposite direction.

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Social Media Network Creator Brian Amerige: If You Could Create a New Network from Scratch, What Would It Look Like?

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:09:00 -0000

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerige—a former team leader at Facebook, and now the CEO of Thoughtful—about the content-moderation lessons he’s learned from established social-media giants, and how we can create something better.

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Minds.Com CEO Bill Ottman on Censorship, ‘Algorithmic Transparency,’ and the Post-Trump Social-Media Landscape

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 18:09:00 -0000

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bill Ottman, co-founder of the Minds social-media network, about the challenges facing Silicon Valley communications giants

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John McWhorter on the Ideological Excesses of the Social-Justice Movement

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 02:47:00 -0000

Columbia University professor and Atlantic Magazine writer John McWhorter speaks with political satirist and TV presenter Josh Szeps about the transformation of radicalized progressive politics into a religious-style belief system

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Cheri Jacobus on How Donald Trump Used Twitter to Destroy People’s Lives (Including Hers)

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:36:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay speaks with Cheri Jacobus, a veteran Republican Party worker and conservative media figure who was mobbed and deplatformed after she called out Donald Trump for his abusive rhetoric and dubious campaign tactics

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Philippe Lemoine on the Case for Lockdown Skepticism

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 18:15:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay speaks to Philippe Lemoine about problematic assumptions embedded in the models used to support COVID lockdown policy. Yes, separating people helps reduce virus transmission and saves lives. But forced isolation also can generate serious (and often life-threatening) risks. Moreover, how much of the beneficial effects attributed to lockdowns are the result of disease-avoidant behaviours that most of us would engage in anyway?

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Professor Tania Reynolds on the Controversy Over Female Mentorship in Academia

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 16:41:00 -0000

University of New Mexico social psychologist Tania Reynolds speaks with Jonathan Kay about Nature Communications' questionable decision to retract a controversial article, the intrusion of ideology into scholarship about academic mentorship, and the principles of evolutionary biology that may affect female professional relationships

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Toby Young on the Free Speech Union, and His Campaign Against Cancel Culture

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 05:44:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay talks to colleague Toby Young about the fine line between journalism and activism, the politics of censorship, and his start-up year at the Free Speech Union

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Oren Cass on the Conservative Case for Labor Unions

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 21:04:00 -0000

As the conservative movement enters a period of post-Trump flux, American Compass CEO Oren Cass explains to Quillette's Jonathan Kay why a right-leaning coalition with organized labor now makes sense

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Nicholas Christakis on His New Book, ‘Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound And Enduring Impact of Coronavirus On The Way We Live’

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:10:00 -0000

Yale Sociologist and Physician Nicholas Christakis speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the origins of COVID-19, how it compares to Bubonic plague and Spanish Flu, and the way it will shape the future of our societies

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Historian Benny Morris on the Turks’ Forgotten 19th-Century Genocide of Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian Christians

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 05:35:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay speaks to famed Middle Eastern historian Benny Morris, whose latest book explores the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire

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Abigail Shrier on Her New Book About Peer Contagion and Gender Dysphoria

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 02:08:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay speaks to Wall Street Journal contributor Abigail Shrier about the epidemic of teenage girls seeking gender reassignment, the backlash against her book—and the backlash against the backlash

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Yale School of Public Health Professor David Paltiel on Computer Modelling COVID-19 Vaccination Programs

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 04:18:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay speaks to public health expert David Paltiel about how mass vaccination could help end the COVID-19 pandemic

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Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:44:00 -0000

Author Shelby Steele speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about white guilt, the ‘poetic truth’ of Ferguson, the dead end of racial grievances, and the creative process of working with his son Eli

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Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 19:11:00 -0000

Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB and T, and the new journalistic climate that he expects will emerge under Joe Biden.

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Jeffrey Flier, Former Dean of Harvard Medical School, on This Week’s Good News About the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Sat, 14 Nov 2020 04:22:00 -0000

Jeffrey Flier—physician, endocrinologist, researcher, and 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University—speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Pfizer’s recent announcement that its candidate COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be more than 90% effective in preliminary testing

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Jamil Jivani on the Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 22:02:00 -0000

While Trump’s hopes of a second Presidential term seem to be vanishing, his surprisingly strong showing among Black, Hispanic, Muslim, and Asian voters is challenging the progressive claim that Trump's appeal is rooted primarily in racism. Quillette’s Jonathan Kay discusses these surprising election results with author and journalist Jamil Jivani.

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Jodi Shaw on a Climate of Fear at Smith College, Following Unproven Racism Accusations

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 04:29:00 -0000

A whistleblower at an elite Massachusetts women’s college talks to Jonathan Kay about how a single 2018 incident on campus unleashed public-shaming measures that targeted the school’s lowest-paid workers—all in the name of social justice

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Cult Expert and Deprogrammer Rick Ross on NXIVM, Founder Keith Raniere, And the Many Tactics Cults Use to Exploit the Unwary

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:22:00 -0000

Rick Ross, executive director of the Cult Education Institute, speaks with Jonathan Kay about infamous cult leader (and now convicted felon) Keith Raniere, who spent 14 years suing Ross for telling the truth about NXIVM

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Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about intellectual conformity, being a lockdown sceptic and her new book

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:46:00 -0000

Literary superstar Lionel Shriver shares her thoughts about the pandemic, the rush to embrace Covid orthodoxy by politicians and scientists and the suppression of dissenting voices by big tech and the mainstream media, including hers

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Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into Social-Justice Extremism—And How She Escaped

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:27:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay speaks with Stanford University student and autism activist Lucy Kross Wallace about her former life as a militant social-justice activist—and what she learned about a movement that she now describes as a “cult.”

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Asra Nomani on the Collateral Damage Inflicted on Asian-American Students by Critical Race Theorists

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:59:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay talks to writer Asra Nomani about the campaign to end race-neutral admissions testing at Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, America’s best public high school—and the disturbing attacks on Asian academic “culture” that have accompanied it

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Stuart Buck on How COVID-19 Has Exposed the Shortfalls of Scientific Peer Review

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:20:00 -0000

Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to Stuart Buck about how the rapid pace of COVID-19 science has exposed longstanding problems with the methods we use to validate scientific research

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Cellist Daniel Lelchuk on How Beethoven’s Genius Flourished in Napoleon’s World

Sat, 03 Oct 2020 18:32:00 -0000

Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to concert cellist Daniel Lelchuk about the timeless, global appeal of Beethoven—and the turbulent historical world that inspired the great German composer’s works.

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Economist Jeff Rubin on the Plight of Today’s Middle-Class ‘Expendables’

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 23:12:00 -0000

Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to economist-turned-author Jeff Rubin about his new book, The Expendables How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization—and the devastating consequences of globalization that many progressive thinkers seem reluctant to talk about.

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Sex Neuroscientist Debra Soh talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her new book, The End of Gender

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:01:00 -0000

Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to scientist and author Dr Debra Soh about the misinformation being peddled to young people about biological sex and transition—and the most humane ways to help people who experience gender dysphoria. Debra has just published The End of Gender.

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Think Inc founder Suzi Jamil talks to Quillette's Claire Lehmann about their new collaboration – Free Thought Live

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 23:36:00 -0000

Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Think Inc Founder Suzi Jamil about the rewards and challenges of bringing the world’s greatest thinkers to Sydney—and their new collaboration, Free Thought Live. You can reserve a spot at their first joint event on September 26th—in which the political satirist and television presenter Josh Szeps interviews Professor John McWhorter—here.

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Psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed talks to Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann about His New Book, In Defence of Shame

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:00:00 -0000

Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Dr Tanveer Ahmed about how we should accept the presence of shame in our lives without succumbing to despair or outrage mobs.

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Substack founder Chris Best is interviewed by Jonathan Kay about how email newsletters are saving journalism

Sun, 06 Sep 2020 15:58:00 -0000

Tech entrepreneur Chris Best talks about Substack, his self-publishing platform that is attracting journalists like Andrew Sullivan, Jesse Singal and Jen Gerson

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Conservative intellectual Douglas Murray talks to Toby Young about the newly emboldened hard left and why the silent majority needs to speak up

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 09:22:00 -0000

Author Douglas Murray talks about the new Afterword to The Madness of Crowds, his best-selling book about identity politics, and the events of the last six months which have accelerated the toxic trends he warned about

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Trans porn star Buck Angel talks to Jonathan Kay about transitioning at age 28, his life in in adult film, and the infighting within the trans community

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:03:00 -0000

Trans Pioneer Buck Angel on the afterlife of a porn actor, his campaign for LGBT rights, and the reality of biological sex

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Journalist and documentary maker Christopher Rufo talks to Jonathan Kay about the ideology fuelling the violent protests in the Pacific Northwest

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 19:21:00 -0000

Christopher Rufo, Director of the Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute, talks to Jonathan Kay about the ideology fuelling the violent protests in Seattle and Portland.

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Conservative intellectual Yoram Hazony talks to Toby Young on the Marxist takeover of liberal institutions.

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:56:00 -0000

Yoram Hazony, author of The Virtue of Nationalism, talks about the why liberal institutions like the New York Times have proved so vulnerable to capture by the hard Left. He wrote about this recently for Quillette.

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University Fundraiser Peter Cohen talks to Jonathan Kay about Jeffrey Epstein, the scandal at MIT, and Ronan Farrow’s flawed journalism

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:50:00 -0000

Peter Cohen, a university fundraiser, talks about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, its impact on MIT, and Ronan Farrow’s flawed reporting. He recently wrote about all of the above for Quillette.

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Evolutionary biologist (and new Quillette Managing Editor) Colin Wright talks to Jonathan Kay about the state of academic science, gender, and his latest career move

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 08:41:00 -0000

Quillette Managing Editor Colin Wright explains why scientists no longer always feel free to speak up in the face of pseudoscience, and why he gave up his hunt for a job as a professor in the field of evolutionary biology for a career in journalism.

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Quillette contributor Rob Henderson talks to Toby Young about how cancel culture became one of America's biggest exports

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:02:00 -0000

Quillette contributor and Cambridge PhD student Rob Henderson talks to Toby Young about how cancel culture became one of America's most successful exports and why upper middle class whites have embraced the woke agenda. Rob recently wrote a piece for Quillette entitled America Exports Cancel Culture to the World.

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Comedian Ryan Long talks to Jon Kay about comedy in the woke era

Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:06:00 -0000

Canadian comedian Ryan Long talks to Jonathan Kay about the nature of comedy in the current political climate. Ryan Long's skit "When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything" has recently gone viral.

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Founder and editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay on the history and future of Quillette

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Jonathan Kay about how and why she created Quillette, and her plans for its future.

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Michael Shellenberger talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about his new book Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

Sat, 11 Jul 2020 16:44:00 -0000

Michael Shellenberger, President of Environmental Progress, talks to Jonathan Kay about global warming, natural disasters, media scaremongering—and why the world is actually getting safer, notwithstanding the scaremongering of Extinction Rebellion.

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Physicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why identity politics should be kept out of science

Sat, 04 Jul 2020 23:12:00 -0000

Renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Jonathan Kay about his Quillette essay Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem and explains why he expressed skepticism about the sincerity of the #strike4blacklives campaign supported by so many science organisations.

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Politics professor Eric Kaufmann talks to Quillette's Toby Young about America's Maoist moment.

Sun, 28 Jun 2020 14:10:00 -0000

Professor Eric Kaufmann talks to Toby Young about his Quillette essay The Great Awakening and the Second American Revolution. He believes American may be going through something akin to China's Cultural Revolution in which many aspects of American society, from the constitution to the name of the country, could change.

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Journalist Helen Joyce talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the difficulties trans activists have got themselves into over the definition of the word "Woman".

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 22:19:00 -0000

Quillette contributor Helen Joyce talks to Jonathan Kay about the many ways in which gender ideologues have tied themselves in knots by trying to make the sisterhood more "inclusive".

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Author and academic Joel Kotkin talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the pandemic and its riotous aftermath

Sun, 14 Jun 2020 22:41:00 -0000

Joel Kotkin, executive director of the Urban Reform Institute and author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, talks to Toby Young about the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on American cities and the rioting that broke out following the death of George Floyd. Joel recently wrote about this in a piece entitled Pandemics and Pandemonium for Quillette.

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Professor Glen Loury talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the racial unrest in America

Sun, 07 Jun 2020 22:58:00 -0000

Glenn Loury, a professor of economics at Brown University, talks to Jonathan Kay about the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. Professor Loury recently published a piece about this in Quillette entitled 'Condemn the Violence Without Equivocation.'

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Author and Journalist David Frum talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about His New Book Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:08:00 -0000

Former Bush speech writer David From talks to Jonathan Kay about the damage done by the Trump presidency and the way forward for America.

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Journalist Cathy Young talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her investigations into Tara Reade’s accusations against Joe Biden

Fri, 29 May 2020 10:14:00 -0000

Writer and Journalist Cathy Young talks to Jonathan Kay about her investigations into Tara Reade’s evolving accusations against Joe Biden, and explains why the ranks of Reade’s supporters are shrinking.

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Thomas Hale of Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about a new research project aimed at comparing international policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Tue, 19 May 2020 18:12:00 -0000

Thomas Hale, Associate Professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, talks to Jonathan Kay about a new research project aimed at comparing international policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Financial Times journalist John Lloyd talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the geopolitical fall-out From the coronavirus crisis

Thu, 14 May 2020 00:30:00 -0000

John Lloyd, co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, talks to Toby Young about the geopolitical fall-out from the coronavirus crisis. Will the Conservatives win the next UK election? Can the EU recover its authority? And is this China's Chernobyl?

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JAMA associate managing news editor Jennifer Abbasi talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about new COVID-19 antibody tests

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 23:37:00 -0000

Jennifer Abbasi, associate managing editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), talks to Jonathan Kay about new COVID-19 antibody tests that may help stop the pandemic and save the lives of those who are already infected.

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Quillette editors Jonathan Kay and Toby Young talk about Jonathan's article about coronavirus superspreaders

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 08:52:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay, Canadian editor of Quillette, talks to associate editor Toby Young about his recent article on COVID-19 superspreaders.

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Lawyer and sex worker Nadia Guo talks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about how the COVID-19 pandemic is devastating the sex trade

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:14:00 -0000

Nadia Guo, a sex worker and lawyer, talks to Jonathan Kay about the devastating impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the sex trade—although it's been great for the webcam business.

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Dr Michael Shermer talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book Giving the Devil His Due

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 21:27:00 -0000

Science writer, author and Skeptic editor-in-chief Michael Shermer talks to Toby Young about his new book Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist. They talk about a range of free speech issues, including hate speech, Holocaust denial, the Pentagon Papers and Wikileaks.

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Dr Jemma Geoghegan, a virologist at the University of Otago, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how viruses evolve

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 11:09:00 -0000

Dr Jemma Geoghegan, a virologist at the University of Otago, talks to Jonathan Kay on how viruses evolve and the lessons we can learn about social distancing from fish, dogs and rabbits.

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Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about treating COVID-19

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:57:00 -0000

Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Jonathan Kay about COVID-19, the triage decisions he's having to make and what we've learnt from China about how best to treat it.

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Professor Wilfred Reilly talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:01:00 -0000

Kentucky State political science professor Wildred Reilly talks to Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About, as well as the "1776" project, which he's a contributor to.

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Matt Ridley talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book How Innovation Works

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:12:00 -0000

Science writer Matt Ridley talks to Toby Young about coronavirus, the prospects of finding a vaccine within the next 18 months, and his new book How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy, and the Saving of Time.

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Andy Lamey talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the conservative case for vegetarianism

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:23:00 -0000

Andy Lamey, author of Duty and the Beast, explains why conservatives are starting to care about animal rights, not just liberals.

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Bo Winegard talks to Quillette's Toby Young about losing his job as an assistant professor at Marietta College

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 22:06:00 -0000

Bo Winegard, long-standing Quillette contributor, has lost his job as an assistant professor at Marietta College. No reason was given, but he believes it's because his research interests included the genetic influence on psychological differences.

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Coleman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why he helped to create the "1776" project

Sat, 29 Feb 2020 11:49:00 -0000

Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes on why he and some other prominent black intellectuals have created the "1776" project, a response to the New York Times's 1619 Project.

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The late Christie Blatchford, award-winning Canadian journalist, on the importance of due process

Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:42:00 -0000

The late Canadian journalist Christie Blatchford gave a speech last year about the importance of due process and the dangers of the #MeToo moral panic. These are the edited highlights.

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Yoram Hazony talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the controversy surrounding his national conservatism conference in Rome

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:35:00 -0000

Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony talks to Toby Young about the national conservatism conference in Rome and why British Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski should not have been reprimanded by his party for attending.

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Michael Solano talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the coming corporatization of Mars

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 19:09:00 -0000

Venture capitalist Michael Solana talks to Jonathan Kay about interstellar corporatocracy—and why we should welcome it.

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Charles Murray talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book Human Diversity

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:00:00 -0000

Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve, talks to Toby Young about his new book Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class.

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The makers of The Rise of Jordan Peterson talk to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about their controversial documentary

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 23:42:00 -0000

Patricia Marcoccia and Maziar Ghaderi of Holding Space Films talk to Jonathan kay about the time they spent chronicling the daily life of Canada’s most famous public intellectual—and how critics on both sides reacted to The Rise of Jordan Peterson.

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George Orwell's biographer Richard Bradford talks to Quillette's Toby Young on the 70th anniversary of Orwell's death

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:43:00 -0000

Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death.

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Comedy director and producer Paul Provenza talks to guest host Jamie Kilstein about Ricky Gervais and cancel culture

Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:38:00 -0000

Stand-up comedian and guest host Jamie Kilstein talks to comedy impresario Paul Provenza about Ricky Gervais's monologue at the Golden Globes and whether comedy is finally emerging from under a cloud of woke humourlessness.

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Conservative politician Daniel Hannan talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the late Sir Roger Scruton

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:47:00 -0000

Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, talks to Toby Young about his lifelong friendship with the late Conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton.

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Harvard history professor James Hankins talks to guest host Alexandra Hudson about his new book on Renaissance Italy

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 23:32:00 -0000

Harvard Historian James Hankins on what the great Renaissance humanists can teach us about virtue and statecraft. Plus: Why so many get Machiavelli wrong.

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Forensic psychologist Armando Simón talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why we shouldn't put a man on Mars

Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:05:00 -0000

Armando Simón, forensic psychologist and science writer, talks to Jonathan Kay about why it would be a mistake to try and put a man on Mars. Simón recently set out the case against a manned space flight to Mars in Quillette.

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Clinical psychologist Dr James Cantor talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about his critique of the American Academy of Pediatrics' guidelines for treating trans children

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:52:00 -0000

Dr James Cantor, clinical psychologist and sexologist, talks to Jonathan Kay about his recent peer-reviewed critique of the AAP's unscientific guidelines on treating trans children.

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Quillette Associate Editor Toby Young talks to Canadian Editor Jonathan Kay about Boris Johnson's victory in the UK General Election

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 11:29:00 -0000

Toby Young talks to Jonathan Kay about the Conservatives' victory in the UK General Election in which Labour suffered its worst defeat since 1935.

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Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Alireza Nader talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the recent political unrest in Iran

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:57:00 -0000

Alireza Nader, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, talks to Jonathan Kay about the recent political protests in Iran and the regime's brutal response.

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Philosopher Benedict Beckeld talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Oikophobia—the knee-jerk dislike of your own culture

Sun, 01 Dec 2019 19:32:00 -0000

Philosopher Benedict Beckeld talks to Jonathan Kay about why so many intellectuals and young people loathe the culture of the West.

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Veteran Political Pundit Mark Halperin talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Trump's re-election prospects

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:53:00 -0000

Political pundit Mark Halperin talks to Jonathan Kay about his new book, How to Beat Trump.

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Journalist and essayist Meghan Daum talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her new book

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:01:00 -0000

Author Meghan Daum talks to Jonathan Kay about her new book, The Problem With Everything.

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Steve Richards, veteran political pundit, talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the forthcoming U.K. election

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:01:00 -0000

Veteran political journalist Steve Richards talks to Toby Young about the U.K.'s forthcoming General Election, becoming a stage performer late in life, and his recent book about recent British Prime Ministers.

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David Adesnik, Director of Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about ISIS, Syria and the Kurds

Sat, 02 Nov 2019 17:12:00 -0000

Director of Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies David Adesnik talks to Jonathan Kay about the latest developments in the Middle East.

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Journalist Jesse Singal talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being harassed by a Slate journalist

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:59:00 -0000

Jesse Singal, contributing writer at New York magazine, talks to Jonathan Kay about being targeted for cancellation by Nicole Cliffe, a well-known left-wing journalist.

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Journalist and pundit David Frum talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the Canadian election result

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:32:00 -0000

David Frum, ex-speechwriter for George W Bush and senior editor at the Atlantic, talks to Jonathan Kay about the result of the recent Canadian election. Does Justin Trudeau deserve a second term as Prime Minister?

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US Constitutional law expert Brian Kalt talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about using the 25th Amendment to remove a president

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 11:20:00 -0000

Professor Brian Kalt, an expert on US constitutional law and the presidency, talks to Jonathan Kay about his new book on the 25th Amendment and the difficulties of using it to remove a president

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Amber Scorah talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:24:00 -0000

Ex-Jehovah's Witness Amber Scorah talks to Jonathan Kay about leaving the Christian sect and her book Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life.

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Douglas Murray talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book The Madness of Crowds

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:54:00 -0000

Conservative intellectual Douglas Murray talks to Toby Young about the moral shortcomings of identity politics and the Marxist underpinnings of the Social Justice movement, both subjects of his new book.

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Samantha Geimer, who was raped by Roman Polanski aged 13, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:16:00 -0000

Samantha Geimer, who was raped by Roman Polanski when she was 13, talks to Jonathan Kay about why she has refused to be cast as a victim and how she's dealt with the controversy her stance has generated, particularly in the #MeToo era. She is steeling herself for another bout of unwanted attention when Polanski's new film—An Officer and a Spy—is released next month.

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New York Times editor Bari Weiss talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about How to Fight Anti-Semitism

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 06:41:00 -0000

New York Times editor and opinion writer Bari Weiss talks to Jonathan Kay about How to Fight Anti-Semitism, her new book on the rise in anti-Semitism in the U.S. on the Left and the Right and what we can do to combat it.

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Gay rights activist Shane Windmeyer talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the Chick-fil-A protests in Toronto

Sun, 15 Sep 2019 15:59:00 -0000

Gay rights activist Shane Windmeyer talks to Jonathan Kay about his changing attitude to Chick-fil-A, which recently opened its first outlet in Toronto. As the founder of Campus Pride, a nationwide LGBT student activist group, Windmeyer was originally a sworn enemy of Chick-fil-A because the company has donated to groups opposed to same-sex marriage. But Dan Cathy, the son of Chick-fil-A's founder and the company's COO, reached out to Windmeyer in 2012 and the two have since become friends.

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Professor Anthony Kronman talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about America's higher education crisis

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 22:36:00 -0000

Yale Law School professor Anthony Kronman talks to Jonathan Kay about his new book The Assault on American Excellence in which he laments the decline of aristocratic values in America's elite universities.

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Carl Gardner talks to Quillette's Toby Young about Britain's constitutional crisis

Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:13:00 -0000

Carl Gardner, a former government lawyer, talks to Toby Young about Boris Johnson's decision to prorogue parliament, whether it's constitutionally legitimate, and what the political ramifications are.

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Professor Nadim Kobeissi talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the dangers posed by Facebook's new cryptocurrency

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:25:00 -0000

Nadim Kobeissi, a professor at NYU and director of a cryptography consulting firm, tells Jonathan Kay about the risks posed by Libra, Facebook's new cryptocurrency.

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Peter Boghossian, the Portland State philosophy professor, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to about his forthcoming book

Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:15:00 -0000

Portland State philosophy professor Peter Boghossian talks to Jonathan Kay about his forthcoming book—How to Have Impossible Conversations.

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Professor Bruce Gilley talks to Quillette's Toby Young about anti-conservative bias in America's universities

Wed, 07 Aug 2019 21:04:00 -0000

Bruce Gilley, professor of political science at Portland State, talks to Toby Young about not being able to get his course on conservative political thought approved by his faculty, and his efforts to fight back against progressive authoritarianism on campus.

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Heterodox Academy 2019 conference highlights presented by Quillette's Jonathan Kay

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 22:58:00 -0000

Heterodox Academy 2019 conference highlights presented by Jonathan Kay, featuring Steven Pinker, Karith Foster, Jennifer Collins Bloomquist, Dan Mogulof, Lara Schwartz, Brandon Calhoun and Coleman Hughes.

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Toby Young talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Boris Johnson, Britain's new Prime Minister whom he's known for 36 years

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 22:55:00 -0000

Toby Young, Quillette's associate editor, talks to Jonathan Kay about Boris Johnson, Britain's new Prime Minister whom Toby first met 36 years ago when they were students together at Oxford.

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Nancy Rommelmann talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how Portland became the woke capital of America

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 16:04:00 -0000

Journalist and YouTuber Nancy Rommelmann talks to Jonathan Kay about how Portland became the most woke city in America, what it's like living there, and why she's moving. She provides an update on the targeting of her husband's coffee shop by an outrage mob after she expressed some reservations about aspects of the #MeToo movement.

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Professor Wilfred Reilly talks to Quillette's Toby Young talks about his new book Hate Crime Hoax

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:09:00 -0000

Wilfred Reilly, an assistant professor of political science at Kentucky State University, talks to Toby Young about his new book documenting the prevalence of hate crime hoaxes and what that tells us about contemporary American society.

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Jamie Kilstein talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about his move to Arizona

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 05:00:00 -0000

Jamie Kilstein, comedian and podcaster, talks to Jonathan Kay about his departure from LA, Andy Ngo's Antifa beating and what it's like to hang out with Moby.

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Professor Nicholas Christakis talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks about his new book Blueprint

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 19:48:00 -0000

Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, talks to Jonathan Kay about his new book Blueprint and what evolution can teach us about overcoming conflict.

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Google whistleblower Mike Wacker talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 14:37:00 -0000

Mike Wacker, the ex-Google software engineer who was fired for exposing the company's liberal bias, talks to Jonathan Kay talks.

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Nuclear expert Michael Shellenberger talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the woeful shortcomings of Chernobyl, the HBO mini-series

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:13:00 -0000

Quillette contributor and nuclear energy expert Michael Shellenberger talks to Toby Young about what Chernobyl, the critically-acclaimed HBO mini-series, got wrong and why that matters.

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Francis Fukuyama talks to Quillette's Alexandra Hudson about identity politics

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:33:00 -0000

Francis Fukuyama is interviewed by guest host Alexandra Hudson about the themes of his new book Identity: The Demand For Dignity and the Politics of Resentment.

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Coleman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about his reparations testimony

Sat, 22 Jun 2019 08:07:00 -0000

Coleman Hughes talks to Jonathan Kay about what it was like testifying to Congress about reparations and the reaction his testimony has received.

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Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Sibarium talk to Quillette's Toby Young about the conservative themes of Avengers: Endgame

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:52:00 -0000

Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Siberium talk to Toby Young about the conservative manifesto buried just beneath the surface of Avengers: Endgame.

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Kathrine Jebsen Moore talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how the knitting community has got tangled up with identity politics

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:02:00 -0000

Kathrine Jebsen Moore talks to Jonathan Kay about how the Instagram knitting community has been torn apart by Social Justice mobs.

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gay icon Sky Gilbert talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being excommunicated by Toronto's LGBT community

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 23:04:00 -0000

Sky Gilbert, gay playwright and drag queen, talks to Jonathan Kay about the history of Canada's gay community and being excommunicated by the LGBT theater company he founded.

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Eric Kaufmann and Sunder Katwala talk to Quillette's Toby Young about the European elections

Tue, 28 May 2019 23:14:00 -0000

Eric Kaufmann, author of Whiteshift, and Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, talk to Toby Young about the European election results. Is national populism in decline? If not, how concerned should we be?

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Greg Ellis, host of Quillette Narrated, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about his career as a voice actor

Thu, 23 May 2019 10:27:00 -0000

Voice actor Greg Ellis talks to Jonathan Kay about working with the producers of Dragon Age, Call of Duty and God of War, and the difference between voicing video game characters and cartoon characters.

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Professor Nigel Biggar talks to Quillette's Toby Young about academic outrage mobs and how to defeat them

Wed, 15 May 2019 16:52:00 -0000

Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford, talks to Toby Young about his experience of being mobbed by his colleagues. They discuss what motivates academic outrage mobs and what can be done to defend free speech at British and American universities.

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Doriane Lambelet Coleman talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the Caster Semenya trial

Fri, 10 May 2019 17:53:00 -0000

Doriane Lambelet Coleman, the 800m-runner-turned-academic, talks to Jonathan Kay about the Court of Arbitration for Sport's rejection of Caster Semenya's appeal. As a result of the decision, Semenya will not be able to compete in women's middle distance events unless she chemically alters her testosterone level.

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Clint Margrave and Timothy Green, two Los Angeles-based poets, talk to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the public shaming of fellow poet Frank Sherlock

Fri, 03 May 2019 16:03:00 -0000

Clint Margrave and Timothy Green, two poets, talk to Jonathan Kay about the shunning of fellow poet Frank Sherlock after he confessed to having been in a skinhead band in the 1980s. Clint Margrave recently wrote an article about Frank Sherlock's public shaming for Quillette.

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Claire Fox, veteran journalist and broadcaster, talks to Quillette's Toby Young about standing for the European Parliament as a Brexit Party candidate

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 23:44:00 -0000

Journalist and broadcaster Claire Fox talks to Toby Young about being a Brexit Party candidate in the forthcoming European Parliament election. How did a former Communist become a candidate for a populist, right-of-centre party?

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Coleman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about an allegedly racist incident at Barnard College

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:51:00 -0000

Coleman Hughes talks to Jonathan Kay about his latest Quillette article, which concerns an allegedly racist incident at Barnard College. Coleman, who is an undergraduate at Columbia, doesn't think the Barnard employees involved are guilty of racism.

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Jamie Kilstein talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about leaving the Social Justice cult and becoming a non-tribal comedian

Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:03:00 -0000

stand-up comedian Jamie Kilstein talks to Jonathan Kay about leaving the Social Justice Left, having Robin Williams as a patron, and his new, non-tribal, un-woke podcast.

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Sir Roger Scruton talks to Quillette's Toby Young about getting sacked by the British Government after being targeted by a Twitter mob

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:31:00 -0000

Sir Roger Scruton, the conservative philosopher, talks to Toby Young about getting sacked as an advisor to the British Government after making some politically incorrect remarks, and the implications of his defenestration for intellectual freedom more widely.

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Tyler Cowen talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about libertarianism, viewpoint diversity in Washington, D.C., and his new online university

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:45:00 -0000

Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University, talks to Jonathan Kay about the limits of libertarianism, viewpoint diversity in Washington, D.C., and Marginal Revolution University, his new online education venture.

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Professor Robert Tombs talks to Quillette's Toby Young about Brexit and Britain's future

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 23:18:00 -0000

Robert Tombs, Cambridge history professor, talks to Toby Young about why he supports Brexit, why so many of his colleagues don't, whether the English intelligentsia's loathing of their country is a uniquely English characteristic and what their reaction is likely to be if the U.K. does eventually leave the European Union.

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Rob Montz, the filmmaker who is documenting the growing free speech crisis in America's universities, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 12:55:00 -0000

Rob Montz, the Washington, DC-based documentarian who has made a succession of slick, entertaining videos about the free speech crisis engulfing America's universities, talks to Jonathan Kay. You can see some of Rob's videos, with some additional commentary from Jon, on Quillette's website.

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Catholic journalist Caroline Farrow talks to Quillette's Toby Young about being investigated by the British police for misgendering a transwoman

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:16:00 -0000

Six months ago, Catholic journalist Caroline Farrow appeared on a TV show called Good Morning Britain to debate Susie Green, a trans activist. That led to a chain of events that saw Caroline being investigated by the British police for misgendering Susie's daughter Jackie, a transwoman who was born male and underwent sexual reassignment surgery in Thailand at the age of 16. She talks to Toby Young about this ordeal.

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Irshad Manji, a gay, progressive Muslim, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her new book Don't Label Me

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:40:00 -0000

liberal Muslim Irshad Manji talks to Jonathan Kay about her new book Don't Label Me in which she urges all sides in the culture wars to listen more carefully to each other. She also reflects on the journey she's been on, from an aggressive combatant in various debates to reflective participant.

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Stand-up comedian Andrew Doyle talks to Quillette's Toby Young about Titania McGrath, his brilliant satirical creation on Twitter.

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:01:00 -0000

Andrew Doyle, stand-up comedian and Spiked-online columnist, talks to Toby Young about Titania McGrath, his satirical creation on Twitter who describes herself as a "radical intersectionalist poet committed to feminism, social justice and armed peaceful protest."

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Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to Danish expert Kay Xander Mellish on Denmark's rape culture, gender equality and the new, female-Led, right-wing Danish party

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:27:00 -0000

Jonathan Kay talks to Kay Xander Mellish, author of How to Live in Denmark (2014) and How to Work in Denmark (2018) about the recent Amnesty International report claiming Denmark has a "pervasive rape culture," as well as what it's like living in the country ranked number two in the world for gender equality and why a female-led, right-wing political party is on the rise.

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Bo Winegard, assistant psychology professor, talks to Quillette's Toby Young about hereditarianism, centrism and the great awokening

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:56:00 -0000

Bo Winegard, long-standing Quillette contributor and assistant psychology professor, talks to Toby Young about three of his articles: On the Reality of Race and the Abhorrence of Racism, Centrism: A Moderate Manifesto and The Great Awokening.

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Mary Hudson, a former teacher in New York's public high school system, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to about how black students are let down by a culture of low expectations

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:53:00 -0000

Mary Hudson, a former teacher in New York's public high school system, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how black students are being let down by school leaders and administrators who are afraid to discipline unruly children for fear of being accused of racism. This conversation follows Hudson's article on the subject for Quillette.

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Brian Amerige, a former Facebook engineer, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the company's content moderation policies

Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:46:00 -0000

Brian Amerige, a former software engineer at Facebook, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the company's content moderation policy and why it is making a mistake in trying to prohibit hate speech. This conversation follows Amerige's article on the subject for Quillette.

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Professor Matthew Goodwin talks to Quillette's Toby Young about Brexit, Trump and the rise of national populism

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 01:45:00 -0000

Matthew Goodwin, professor of politics at the University of Kent and co-author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberalism, talks to Quillette's Toby Young about Brexit, Trump, the rise of national populism in Europe and America, and what its impact is likely to be on the future of social democracy.

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Skeptic editor Michael Shermer talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Holocaust denialists, Social Justice Warriors and how to debunk toxic ideologies

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:36:00 -0000

Skeptic editor Michael Shermer talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Holocaust denialists, Social Justice Warriors, the importance of bringing reason and science to bear on political debates, and why it is that smart people believe dumb things.

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Kat Rosenfield, young-adult author, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the recent mobbing of Amélie Wen Zhao, a YA writer forced to shelve her debut novel

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:33:00 -0000

Kat Rosenfield, young-adult author and prolific vlogger and journalist, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Amélie Wen Zhao, a YA writer who's withdrawn her debut novel Blood Heir after being mobbed for allegedly breaching various politically correct protocols that all YA authors, including people of color, are expected to observe.

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Bill Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the state of conservative politics

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:39:00 -0000

Bill Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the future of journalism, conservative politics and the stars who emerged from his magazine's pages, including David Brooks, John Podhoretz and Christopher Caldwell.

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Speeches from the Quillette party in Toronto

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 02:48:00 -0000

Listen to the speeches made at Quillette's party in Toronto by Quillette founder Claire Lehmann, stand-up comic Jamie Kilstein, Skeptic editor Michael Shermer, Quillette's Canadian editor Jonathan Kay, author and philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers and Quillette's associate editor Toby Young. Thanks to Holding Space Films for supplying us with the audio.

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Professor Steven Pinker talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about what the critics of his book Enlightenment Now got wrong

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:34:00 -0000

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to about his book Enlightenment Now and why the critics who took him to task for celebrating the Enlightenment are wrong.

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Writer Jesse Singal talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the reaction to his controversial cover story for The Atlantic on trans adolescents

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:47:00 -0000

Jesse Singal, a New York-based writer, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the reaction to his controversial cover story for The Atlantic about transgender adolescents. Among other things, Singal interviewed a number of adults who have "detransitioned"—had a change of heart about switching genders after undergoing irreversible medical procedures. This provoked accusations of "transphobia" from trans activists, who argued that highlighting these cases would make parents and mental health professionals needlessly sceptical when reacting to children's self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria and make it more difficult for those children to get medical treatment.

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Professor Jeff McMahan talks to Quillette's Toby Young about co-founding the Journal of Controversial Ideas

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 10:18:00 -0000

Jeff McMahan, professor of moral philosophy at Oxford and co-founder of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a new academic periodical in which contributors will be given the option of publishing their papers pseudonymously, talks to Quillette's Toby Young. They discuss why the journal is needed, how 'controversial' ideas will be defined and Professor McMahan responds to some of the criticisms that have greeted the idea, both from the Social Justice Left and the liberal centre.

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Corinna Cohn, a trans software developer, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why she dissents from Social Justice orthodoxy

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:29:00 -0000

Corinna Cohn, a trans woman and Indianapolis-based software developer who disagrees with Twitter's policy of banning users who "deadname" trans people and, more generally, doesn't believe she is obliged to support the causes associated with the Social Justice movement just because Social Justice Warriors support trans rights, talks to Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.

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Jonathan Church talks to Quillette's Toby Young about 'white privilege'

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:45:00 -0000

Jonathan Church, Quillette contributor and economist, talks to associate editor Toby Young about 'white privilege,' 'white fragility,' 'color-blind racism,' 'unconscious bias,' 'micro-aggressions' and why the Social Justice Left is more interested in punishing whites than understanding the complexity of racial inequality.

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Coleman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being out of step with the prevailing orthodoxy about race as a black college student

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 06:00:00 -0000

Coleman Hughes, Quillette columnist and Columbia University student, talks to Canadian editor Jonathan Kay about being out of step with the prevailing orthodoxy at an Ivy League college, classical liberalism and playing in Rihanna's backup band in 2016.

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Heather Mac Donald talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her experience of being mobbed on campus

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 01:07:00 -0000

Heather Mac Donald, a Fellow of the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of several books, most recently The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture, talks to Canadian editor Jonathan. Among other topics, they discuss her run-in with Black Lives Matter, her experience of being mobbed on campus and the free speech crisis afflicting America's universities.

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Meghan Murphy talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being banned from Twitter for 'dead-naming'

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:27:00 -0000

Meghan Murphy, the founder of Feminist Current, a radical feminist blog and podcast, talks to Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. Meghan was recently banned from Twitter for 'dead-naming' and 'misgendering' trans women, activities that are now prohibited in Twitter's terms of service. She wrote about this for Quillette.

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Eric Kaufmann and Ben Cobley talks to Quillette's Toby Young about white privilege, diversity and identity politics

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:00:00 -0000

Eric Kaufmann, a politics professor at Birkbeck College and the author of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities, and Ben Cobley, author of The Tribe: The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity, talks to associate editor Toby Young. Kaufmann recently wrote a piece for Quillette about white privilege, arguing that non-whites discriminate in favour of whites as well as whites, so declining white populations won't necessarily end white privilege, and Ben Cobley's book was recently reviewed in Quillette by Helen Dale in which she praised him for explaining "how a frankly bonkers set of beliefs has stolen the Labour Party" and for showing "the danger of viewing people as members of fixed identity groups."

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Ted Hill talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how his paper on the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis was sent down the memory hole

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 12:55:00 -0000

Dr. Theodore Hill, professor emeritus of mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology, talks to Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. Hill recently wrote an article for Quillette about how a paper of his on the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis was accepted and retracted by The Mathematical Intelligencer and The New York Journal of Mathematics, following a lobbying effort by mathematicians who disapproved of his point of view.

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Jordan Peterson talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the free speech crisis engulfing North American universities

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:42:00 -0000

Dr Jordan Peterson talks to associate editor Toby Young In Quillette's first official podcast. Among other things, they discuss The Coddling of the American Mind, Peterson's plans to set up a new university, and the baffling resilience of hard Left ideology.

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