Quillette Narrated

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Quillette Narrated episodes

August 26, 2025 The Limits of Radical Protest
Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements.

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22 min
August 22, 2025 Ancient DNA and the Return of a Disgraced Theory
This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better.

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27 min
August 21, 2025 The Sensitivity Era
Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov.
Robert Huddleston

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14 min
August 21, 2025 The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell
Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.

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14 min
August 20, 2025 The Problem Is Islam—Not Islamism
The problem here is not a subset of Islamic thought, but the fundamentals of Islam itself. By Obaid Omer

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7 min
August 19, 2025 Rethinking “Harm Reduction”
Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray.

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31 min
August 06, 2025 McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring
In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen.

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1 hr 27 min
August 05, 2025 Against Palestinian Statehood
Nurturing an alternative power structure in this kind of politically stunted society will be the work of generations. It can’t be summoned into existence by Western leaders seeking to appease domestic constituencies.

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9 min
August 04, 2025 Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had
Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale.

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23 min
July 29, 2025 His Satanic Majesty Retires
A tribute to the man who helped to revolutionise modern rock music and reality TV.

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20 min