Quillette Podcast

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Quillette Podcast episodes

October 16 Watching a Cancelled Novelist Confront His False Accusers
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Amy Hamm about Steven Galloway’s legal campaign against the University of British Columbia scholars who promoted baseless allegations that he was a rapist

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39 min
October 01 Skeptic vs. ‘Doomer’: How Scared Should We Be of Rogue AI?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews AI expert Gary Marcus about the possibility that a rogue artificial intelligence will turn us all into paper clips.

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51 min
September 15 The Price of Affirmative Action in Canadian Academia
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Eric Kaufmann about his new Macdonald-Laurier Institute report, ⁠The Equity-Excellence Trade-Off: A Study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program⁠.

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37 min
August 29 Covering the Culture Wars
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Benjamin Ryan about his journalistic adventures reporting on AIDS, monkeypox, gender activism, and the Jason Arday saga.

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39 min
August 04 Politicising the Humanities: Sociology as Case Study
Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Hawaii professor Ashley Rubin, co-author of the recently published Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences.

00:00 Introduction: the Vanderbilt report
02:30 Do professional associations speak for the field?
05:35 What gets on the conference programme—and what doesn't
06:10 Why everyone picks on sociologists
08:05 The variables you're not allowed to test
11:15 "Prisoner resistance": how a concept got out of hand
14:00 A Marxist editor and the fear of seeming conservative
17:25 What the report does and doesn't claim
18:50 The Yale trust report and grade inflation
22:40 Activists, ringleaders and the silent majority
25:50 Inside the ASA boycott
28:45 Should sociology split into parties?
31:50 Durkheim on why disciplines need shared rules
34:30 Authoritarianism from your own side

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39 min
July 26 The ‘Sex Recession’ is Real
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Debra Soh, author of Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy, about neuroscience, hypergamy, elephant seals, politicised sex research, the perils of polyamory, and the sex-repellent scourge of ’phubbing.’

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1 hr 2 min
July 07 First Nations Chief, Podcast Pundit, Indigenous Gadfly
Jonathan Kay speaks with Aaron Pete, leader of the Chawathil First Nation in British Columbia, about his community’s socioeconomic challenges, intra-Indigenous politics, the legacy of residential schools, and progressive taboos surrounding of “unmarked graves.”

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51 min
June 22 The Great Canadian Unmarked-Graves Social Panic (2021-2026)
Mia Hughes and Stella O'Malley of the Beyond Gender podcast interview Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the progressive ideological manias spawned during the Justin Trudeau years.

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56 min
June 10 Why the Enlightenment Matters
Iona Italia talks to lawyer and historian Adam Wakeling about the enduring importance of Enlightenment values and how to defend them today.

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59 min
June 01 The Case Against State-Sanctioned Euthanasia
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Kathleen Stock about her new book, Do Not Go Gentle—in which she argues that governments should be denied any institutional role in facilitating the death of their citizens.

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35 min