Quillette Podcast

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Quillette 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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Quillette Podcast episodes:

03.28.2024
Fighting 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/adchoices
03.15.2024
Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women
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.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
02.21.2024
Is 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/adchoices
01.28.2024
Leaving MAGA
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.16.2024
The Fine Line Between Denouncing ‘Settler Colonialism’ and Supporting Terrorism
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,...
12.04.2023
How ‘Intersectional Feminism’ Got Hijacked by Men
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.22.2023
The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Justinian
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. Learn...
11.01.2023
The October 7 Terrorist Attacks, in Historical Perspective
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10.20.2023
Eric 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/adchoices
10.18.2023
The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash aka DJ Hookie
Quillette 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
10.02.2023
Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.13.2023
Tracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (Formerly) Known as Wokeness
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...
09.11.2023
Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl
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...
09.02.2023
Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious Movements
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.23.2023
Talking 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/adchoices
08.08.2023
When DEI ‘Training’ Becomes a Pretext for Bullying and Harassment: A Tragic Canadian Case Study
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). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.06.2023
McMaster University’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.03.2023
Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.24.2023
Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.09.2023
Whom 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/adchoices
05.19.2023
Bastardizing Beethoven, Mangling Mozart
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05.07.2023
Meghan Murphy on Sex, Feminism, Sports, Fast Food, The Walking Dead, Mexico, and Some Like It Hot
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04.21.2023
Kellie-Jay Keen on Protecting Women, and Facing Down Aggressive Gender-Rights Mobs
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04.08.2023
A Sample Episode from Our New Quillette Narrated Podcast: Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal, by Nina Paley
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04.04.2023
Youth Gender Dysphoria and Social Contagion: Exploring the Latest Research
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03.29.2023
Keeping Biological Males Out of Women’s Swimming
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
03.12.2023
In Defence of the British Empire
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
02.27.2023
Fair Play for Female Athletes—Then and Now
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02.09.2023
The Fight to Provide Gender Dysphoric Children with Holistic Therapy Instead of Instant ‘Affirmation’
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01.21.2023
Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard: The Definitive Postmortem from an Unlikely Expert
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01.03.2023
From Golden Girls Superfan to Right-Wing Culture Warrior: The Strange Journey of Dave Rubin
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12.15.2022
Discovering Your Inner ‘Demisexual’
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12.05.2022
A Marriage Lost to Gender Identity
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11.22.2022
How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the Guggenheim Museum’s Top Curator
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11.05.2022
Sahar Tartak on Fighting Back Against Coerced ‘Anti-Racist’ Indoctrination in American Education
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10.23.2022
Jonathan Kay on the State of Journalism, the Perils of Audience Capture, and the Art of Podcasting
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10.11.2022
Andrew Lawton on the Political Legacy of Canada’s 2022 ‘Freedom Convoy’
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09.22.2022
Kushal Mehra on the Explosive Growth of YouTube in India
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.09.2022
From VisiCalc to Global Cloud Computing: Lessons from a Lifelong Love Affair with Digital Technology
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...
08.29.2022
When Workplace Anti-Racism Training Goes Off the Rails
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.12.2022
Meet the 80-Year-Old Feminist Who Got Banned From the YMCA for Protesting Male Bodies in the Women‘s Locker Room
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...
08.03.2022
Canada’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...
07.19.2022
Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Privileged Class
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
07.06.2022
James 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/adchoices
07.06.2022
James 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.
06.20.2022
Richard Dawkins on the Wonders of Flight
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 Learn more about your ad choices....
06.05.2022
‘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...
06.05.2022
'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.
05.23.2022
Progressive Social Panic at Yale and Princeton
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 Learn more about your ad choices....
05.08.2022
How Elon Musk Can Promote Free Speech—Without Turning Twitter Into One Big ‘Dumpster Fire’
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's Quillette Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Quillette Podcast episodes:

Fighting Back Against Progressive ‘Neo-Racism’

Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women

Is Israel Really Committing Genocide in Gaza?

Leaving MAGA

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

How ‘Intersectional Feminism’ Got Hijacked by Men

The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Justinian

The October 7 Terrorist Attacks, in Historical Perspective

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

The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash aka DJ Hookie

Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children

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

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

Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious Movements

Talking Science and Substacking in ‘Nash Vegas‘

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

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

Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism

Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist

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

Bastardizing Beethoven, Mangling Mozart

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

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

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

Youth Gender Dysphoria and Social Contagion: Exploring the Latest Research

Keeping Biological Males Out of Women’s Swimming

In Defence of the British Empire

Fair Play for Female Athletes—Then and Now

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

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

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

Discovering Your Inner ‘Demisexual’

A Marriage Lost to Gender Identity

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

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

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

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

Kushal Mehra on the Explosive Growth of YouTube in India

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

When Workplace Anti-Racism Training Goes Off the Rails

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Dawkins on the Wonders of Flight

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

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

Progressive Social Panic at Yale and Princeton

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

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