Quillette Podcast
274 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsQuillette is where free thought lives. We are an online magazine that is politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values.
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Episodes
Fighting Back Against Progressive ‘Neo-Racism’
March 28, 2024 05:11 - 42 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women
March 15, 2024 16:31 - 39 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
Is Israel Really Committing Genocide in Gaza?
February 21, 2024 02:20 - 46 minutesUniversity 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/adchoices
Leaving MAGA
January 28, 2024 05:07 - 31 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
The Fine Line Between Denouncing ‘Settler Colonialism’ and Supporting Terrorism
January 16, 2024 05:09 - 33 minutesAtlantic 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/adchoices
How ‘Intersectional Feminism’ Got Hijacked by Men
December 04, 2023 19:46 - 45 minutesVeteran 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/adchoices
The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Justinian
November 22, 2023 05:44 - 1 hourQuillette 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/adchoices
The October 7 Terrorist Attacks, in Historical Perspective
November 01, 2023 02:38 - 26 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
Eric Kaufmann’s New ‘Centre for Heterodox Social Science’
October 20, 2023 01:07 - 38 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash aka DJ Hookie
October 18, 2023 01:41 - 1 hourQuillette 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/adchoices
Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children
October 02, 2023 05:07 - 44 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
Tracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (Formerly) Known as Wokeness
September 13, 2023 23:53 - 59 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl
September 11, 2023 00:02 - 58 minutesQuillette 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 str...
Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious Movements
September 02, 2023 02:06 - 46 minutesIndian-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/adchoices
Talking Science and Substacking in ‘Nash Vegas‘
August 23, 2023 05:06 - 26 minutesPodcast 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/adchoices
When DEI ‘Training’ Becomes a Pretext for Bullying and Harassment: A Tragic Canadian Case Study
August 08, 2023 03:35 - 23 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
McMaster University’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic
July 06, 2023 11:44 - 29 minutesLawrence 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/adchoices
Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism
July 03, 2023 03:14 - 49 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist
June 24, 2023 02:19 - 42 minutesIona Italia speaks with Henry Rambow, whose Hate No More podcast tells the story of “Casper,” a one-time leader of the State Prison Skinheads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Whom is the Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Industry Actually Helping?
June 09, 2023 03:40 - 40 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
Bastardizing Beethoven, Mangling Mozart
May 19, 2023 03:29 - 48 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Meghan Murphy on Sex, Feminism, Sports, Fast Food, The Walking Dead, Mexico, and Some Like It Hot
May 07, 2023 01:16 - 1 hourLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kellie-Jay Keen on Protecting Women, and Facing Down Aggressive Gender-Rights Mobs
April 21, 2023 18:47 - 31 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Sample Episode from Our New Quillette Narrated Podcast: Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal, by Nina Paley
April 08, 2023 04:45 - 8 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Youth Gender Dysphoria and Social Contagion: Exploring the Latest Research
April 04, 2023 05:27 - 31 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Keeping Biological Males Out of Women’s Swimming
March 29, 2023 19:30 - 23 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
In Defence of the British Empire
March 12, 2023 05:36 - 43 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
Fair Play for Female Athletes—Then and Now
February 27, 2023 05:11 - 35 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Fight to Provide Gender Dysphoric Children with Holistic Therapy Instead of Instant ‘Affirmation’
February 09, 2023 06:42 - 29 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard: The Definitive Postmortem from an Unlikely Expert
January 21, 2023 04:56 - 54 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From Golden Girls Superfan to Right-Wing Culture Warrior: The Strange Journey of Dave Rubin
January 03, 2023 22:48 - 47 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Discovering Your Inner ‘Demisexual’
December 15, 2022 16:46 - 30 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Marriage Lost to Gender Identity
December 05, 2022 04:51 - 37 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the Guggenheim Museum’s Top Curator
November 22, 2022 06:55 - 51 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sahar Tartak on Fighting Back Against Coerced ‘Anti-Racist’ Indoctrination in American Education
November 05, 2022 23:18 - 35 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jonathan Kay on the State of Journalism, the Perils of Audience Capture, and the Art of Podcasting
October 23, 2022 03:24 - 34 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Andrew Lawton on the Political Legacy of Canada’s 2022 ‘Freedom Convoy’
October 11, 2022 00:33 - 40 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kushal Mehra on the Explosive Growth of YouTube in India
September 22, 2022 20:27 - 45 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
From VisiCalc to Global Cloud Computing: Lessons from a Lifelong Love Affair with Digital Technology
September 09, 2022 16:59 - 47 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
When Workplace Anti-Racism Training Goes Off the Rails
August 29, 2022 01:53 - 32 minutesNicole 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/adchoices
Meet the 80-Year-Old Feminist Who Got Banned From the YMCA for Protesting Male Bodies in the Women‘s Locker Room
August 12, 2022 05:07 - 23 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong?
August 03, 2022 20:03 - 42 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Privileged Class
July 19, 2022 06:38 - 30 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
James Kirchick on ‘Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington’
July 06, 2022 17:24 - 36 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
James Kirchick on 'Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington'
July 06, 2022 17:24 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBQuillette 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.
Richard Dawkins on the Wonders of Flight
June 20, 2022 21:25 - 26 minutesQuillette 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/adchoices
‘Sex Realism’ Versus ‘Sex Denialism’: Is the Tide Finally Turning Against Gender Ideology?
June 05, 2022 04:30 - 48 minutesEconomist 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/adchoices
'Sex Realism' Versus 'Sex Denialism': Is the Tide Finally Turning Against Gender Ideology?
June 05, 2022 04:30 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBEconomist 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.
Progressive Social Panic at Yale and Princeton
May 23, 2022 19:45 - 46 minutesReporter 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/adchoices
How Elon Musk Can Promote Free Speech—Without Turning Twitter Into One Big ‘Dumpster Fire’
May 08, 2022 20:45 - 35 minutesVeteran 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices