Shows
Quillette PodcastThe Canadian Episode: Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s TravailsQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-02-0840 min
Quillette Podcast‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-02-0115 min
Quillette PodcastAncient AustraliansQuillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to “Mungo Manic” about his extensive research into the lives of the ancient Australians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-01-2418 min
Quillette Podcast'The Power of Nuclear'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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-01-1817 min
Quillette PodcastThe Tragedy of California’s WildfiresQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-01-1118 min
Quillette PodcastDid Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas?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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-12-2418 min
Quillette PodcastIn Defence of Julia the ElderQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-12-1320 min
Quillette PodcastLessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-11-3017 min
Quillette PodcastThe Campaign Against 'Settler Colonialism’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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-11-1330 min
Quillette PodcastHow Universities Should Regulate Contentious SpeechQuillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with prolific Harvard University legal scholar Cass Sunstein about his new book, Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-11-0214 min
Quillette PodcastWe Have Never Been WokeQuillette 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.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-10-1813 min
Quillette PodcastIn Defence of Beauty with Megan GaffordIona 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-10-0920 min
Quillette PodcastA Brief History of Communism with Sean McMeekinJonathan 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-10-0419 min
Quillette Narrated'Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary' by Benny Morris'Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary' by Benny Morris. Published in Quillette.com on 19 September 2024. Narrated by Iona Italia.2024-09-1926 min
Quillette PodcastQuillette 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.’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.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-09-1244 min
Quillette PodcastThe (Other) Scandal at Oberlin CollegeQuillette 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.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-08-2838 min
Quillette PodcastShould Imane Khelif be allowed to box against women?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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-08-1524 min
Quillette PodcastHow Gender Activists Took Over a Scottish Rape-Crisis CentreQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-08-0836 min
Quillette PodcastProtest? Polite PassNew 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-07-0334 min
Quillette NarratedRecycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time by Frank CeliaThe recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.Zoe Booth reads 'Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time' by Frank Celia. Published in Quillette on 17 Jun 2024.2024-06-2627 min
Quillette PodcastQuillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic Magazine staff writer Conor Friedersdorf about an alarmingly censorious government bill that would allow officials to investigate Canadians for things they haven’t done yet.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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-06-1419 min
Quillette PodcastSupporting Trans People Without Denying the Facts of BiologyQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-06-1040 min
Quillette Podcast'Technology Is Not the Problem' with Timandra HarknessQuillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Timandra Harkness about her new book on technology, micro-targeting, personalisation and narcissism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-06-051h 04
Quillette PodcastThe (Culture) War Diaries of Nellie BowlesQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-05-2251 min
Quillette Podcast'Recovery from Rape' with Larissa PhillipsQuillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Larissa Phillips about the best ways to prevent rape and promote victims' recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-05-2259 min
Quillette NarratedHow French Intellectuals Ruined the West by Helen PluckrosePostmodernism and Its Impact, Explained. Iona Italia reads 'How French Intellectuals Ruined the West' by Helen Pluckrose. First published in Areo Magazine. Republished in Quillette on 7 May 2024.2024-05-0831 min
Quillette PodcastExperiencing AutogynephiliaQuillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to self-described 'Transsexual Apostate’ Debbie Hayton about the link between male sexual self-attraction and transgender self-identification. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-05-0650 min
Quillette PodcastFighting Back Against Progressive ‘Neo-Racism’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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-03-2842 min
Quillette PodcastCreating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ WomenQuillette 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.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-03-1539 min
Quillette PodcastIs Israel Really Committing Genocide in Gaza?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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-02-2146 min
Quillette PodcastLeaving MAGAQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-01-2831 min
Quillette PodcastThe Fine Line Between Denouncing ‘Settler Colonialism’ and Supporting TerrorismAtlantic 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-01-1633 min
Quillette PodcastHow ‘Intersectional Feminism’ Got Hijacked by MenVeteran 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-12-0445 min
Quillette PodcastThe Extraordinary Life and Legacy of JustinianQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-11-221h 07
Quillette PodcastThe October 7 Terrorist Attacks, in Historical PerspectiveQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-11-0126 min
Quillette PodcastEric Kaufmann’s New ‘Centre for Heterodox Social Science’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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-10-2038 min
Quillette PodcastThe Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash aka DJ HookieQuillette editor and podcast host Iona Italia talks with speaker, DJ, and quadruple amputee Tom Nash about his new book, ‘Hook, Line, and Sinner.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-10-181h 07
Quillette PodcastParents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified ChildrenQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-10-0244 min
Quillette PodcastTracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (Formerly) Known as WokenessQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-09-1459 min
Quillette PodcastJournalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a GirlQuillette 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...2023-09-1158 min
Quillette PodcastUnderstanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious MovementsIndian-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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-09-0246 min
Quillette PodcastTalking Science and Substacking in ‘Nash Vegas‘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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-08-2326 min
Quillette PodcastWhen DEI ‘Training’ Becomes a Pretext for Bullying and Harassment: A Tragic Canadian Case StudyQuillette 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). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-08-0823 min
Quillette PodcastMcMaster University’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social PanicLawrence 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-07-0629 min
Quillette PodcastEight Hundred Years of Russian DespotismQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-07-0349 min
Quillette PodcastWhom is the Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Industry Actually Helping?Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf about his recent article, The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-06-0940 min
Quillette Narrated‘Our New, Subscription-Based World,’ by the Quillette editorial board.2023-04-1511 min
Quillette PodcastA Sample Episode from Our New Quillette Narrated Podcast: Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal, by Nina Paley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-04-0808 min
Quillette PodcastKeeping Biological Males Out of Women’s SwimmingQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-03-2923 min
Quillette PodcastIn Defence of the British EmpireQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-03-1243 min
Quillette PodcastKushal Mehra on the Explosive Growth of YouTube in IndiaQuillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Indian podcaster and YouTuber Kushal Mehra about the raucous, angry, informative, and often hilarious world of Indian YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-09-2245 min
Quillette PodcastFrom VisiCalc to Global Cloud Computing: Lessons from a Lifelong Love Affair with Digital TechnologyQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-09-0947 min
Quillette PodcastWhen Workplace Anti-Racism Training Goes Off the RailsNicole 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-08-2932 min
Quillette PodcastMeet the 80-Year-Old Feminist Who Got Banned From the YMCA for Protesting Male Bodies in the Women‘s Locker RoomQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-08-1223 min
Quillette PodcastCanada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong?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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-08-0342 min
Quillette PodcastUnderstanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Privileged ClassQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-07-1930 min
Quillette PodcastJames Kirchick on ‘Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington’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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-07-0636 min
Quillette PodcastRichard Dawkins on the Wonders of FlightQuillette 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-06-2026 min
Quillette Podcast‘Sex Realism’ Versus ‘Sex Denialism’: Is the Tide Finally Turning Against Gender Ideology?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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-06-0548 min
Quillette PodcastProgressive Social Panic at Yale and PrincetonReporter 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-05-2346 min
Quillette PodcastJonathan Kay on Middle Age, Watch Collecting, Sports Cars, Board Games, and Disc GolfQuillette's Jonathan Kay ends 2021 by speaking to Bob Tarantino about the things he does when he isn't hosting the Quillette podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-12-2330 min
Quillette PodcastJonathan Kay on Life at Quillette, The New York Times, FOX News, Seth Rogen, Dog Shampoo, His New Book, and Childhood Vacations at Del Boca VistaQuillette 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” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-07-2351 min
Quillette PodcastSex Neuroscientist Debra Soh talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her new book, The End of GenderQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-09-1934 min
Quillette PodcastThink Inc founder Suzi Jamil talks to Quillette's Claire Lehmann about their new collaboration – Free Thought LiveQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-09-1625 min
Quillette PodcastPsychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed talks to Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann about His New Book, In Defence of ShameQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-09-1136 min
Quillette PodcastEvolutionary biologist (and new Quillette Managing Editor) Colin Wright talks to Jonathan Kay about the state of academic science, gender, and his latest career moveQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-08-0849 min
Quillette PodcastQuillette contributor Rob Henderson talks to Toby Young about how cancel culture became one of America's biggest exportsQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-07-3129 min
Quillette PodcastFounder and editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay on the history and future of QuilletteEditor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Jonathan Kay about how and why she created Quillette, and her plans for its future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-07-2230 min
Quillette PodcastPhysicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why identity politics should be kept out of scienceRenowned 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-07-0541 min
Quillette PodcastPolitics professor Eric Kaufmann talks to Quillette's Toby Young about America's Maoist moment.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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-06-2851 min
Quillette PodcastJournalist Helen Joyce talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the difficulties trans activists have got themselves into over the definition of the word "Woman".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". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-06-2021 min
Quillette PodcastAuthor and academic Joel Kotkin talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the pandemic and its riotous aftermathJoel 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-06-1551 min
Quillette PodcastProfessor Glen Loury talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the racial unrest in AmericaGlenn 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.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-06-0816 min
Quillette PodcastQuillette editors Jonathan Kay and Toby Young talk about Jonathan's article about coronavirus superspreadersJonathan Kay, Canadian editor of Quillette, talks to associate editor Toby Young about his recent article on COVID-19 superspreaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-04-2925 min
Quillette PodcastBo Winegard talks to Quillette's Toby Young about losing his job as an assistant professor at Marietta CollegeBo 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-03-0549 min
Quillette PodcastColeman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why he helped to create the "1776" projectQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-02-2936 min
Quillette PodcastForensic psychologist Armando Simón talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why we shouldn't put a man on MarsArmando 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-01-0419 min
Quillette PodcastToby Young talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Boris Johnson, Britain's new Prime Minister whom he's known for 36 yearsToby 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-07-2634 min
Quillette PodcastNuclear expert Michael Shellenberger talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the woeful shortcomings of Chernobyl, the HBO mini-seriesQuillette 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-06-2834 min
Quillette PodcastGreg Ellis, host of Quillette Narrated, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about his career as a voice actorVoice 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-05-2335 min
Quillette PodcastClint Margrave and Timothy Green, two Los Angeles-based poets, talk to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the public shaming of fellow poet Frank SherlockClint 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-05-0333 min
Quillette PodcastColeman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about an allegedly racist incident at Barnard CollegeColeman 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-04-2322 min
Quillette PodcastRob Montz, the filmmaker who is documenting the growing free speech crisis in America's universities, talks to Quillette's Jonathan KayRob 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-03-2941 min
Quillette PodcastBo Winegard, assistant psychology professor, talks to Quillette's Toby Young about hereditarianism, centrism and the great awokeningBo 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-02-2759 min
Quillette PodcastMary 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 expectationsMary 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-02-2117 min
Quillette PodcastBrian Amerige, a former Facebook engineer, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the company's content moderation policiesBrian 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-02-1930 min
Quillette PodcastProfessor Matthew Goodwin talks to Quillette's Toby Young about Brexit, Trump and the rise of national populismMatthew 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-02-1455 min
Quillette PodcastSkeptic editor Michael Shermer talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Holocaust denialists, Social Justice Warriors and how to debunk toxic ideologiesSkeptic 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-02-0731 min
Quillette PodcastKat 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 novelKat 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-02-0119 min
Quillette PodcastBill Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the state of conservative politicsBill 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-01-2929 min
Quillette PodcastSpeeches from the Quillette party in TorontoListen 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-01-2426 min
Quillette PodcastProfessor Steven Pinker talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about what the critics of his book Enlightenment Now got wrongHarvard 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-01-1440 min
Quillette PodcastWriter Jesse Singal talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the reaction to his controversial cover story for The Atlantic on trans adolescentsJesse 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. Learn more ab...2019-01-1130 min
Quillette PodcastProfessor Jeff McMahan talks to Quillette's Toby Young about co-founding the Journal of Controversial IdeasJeff 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2019-01-0452 min
Quillette PodcastJonathan Church talks to Quillette's Toby Young about 'white privilege'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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-12-2026 min
Quillette PodcastColeman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being out of step with the prevailing orthodoxy about race as a black college studentColeman 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-12-1341 min
Quillette PodcastMeghan Murphy talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being banned from Twitter for 'dead-naming'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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-11-2831 min
Quillette PodcastEric Kaufmann and Ben Cobley talks to Quillette's Toby Young about white privilege, diversity and identity politicsEric 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...2018-11-2149 min
Quillette PodcastTed Hill talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how his paper on the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis was sent down the memory holeDr. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-11-1632 min
Quillette PodcastJordan Peterson talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the free speech crisis engulfing North American universitiesDr 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-11-0645 min