Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
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Quillette's Zoe Booth, sits down with a guest to discuss some of the best Quillette articles from the week + more. Common themes include gender issues, feminism, free speech, evolutionary psychology, philosophy, politics, science and more.
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The Quillette Podcast is a platform for rigorous, academic discussions rooted in common sense and free inquiry. Non-dogmatic and grounded in liberal values, the podcast serves as a beacon for thoughtful conversation on science, politics, philosophy, and culture. Quillette prides itself on intellectual honesty, avoiding ideological extremism in favor of evidence-based reasoning and progress. Hosted by leading voices in academia and journalism, past guests include evolutionary biologist Richar ...
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'The Language of Sex' by Marilyn Simon
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18:27While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated.De către Quillette
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Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes have been growing more salient in western societies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDe către Quillette
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'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke
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5:45A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.De către Quillette
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Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future by Razib Khan
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9:26Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.De către Quillette
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The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter by Razib Khan
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9:44The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.De către Quillette
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'Trump and the Academic Cocoon' by Heather Mac Donald
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19:51A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.De către Quillette
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'The Weak Horse' by Brian Stewart
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14:27Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.De către Quillette
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'Anti-Zionism’s German Roots' by Gerfried Ambrosch
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20:04While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.De către Quillette
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'Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess' by Iona Italia
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21:57While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.De către Quillette
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'Tyranny Is Not What It Used to Be' by Brian Stewart
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15:17In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time.De către Quillette
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The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die by Kevin Mims
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41:27Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.De către Quillette
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Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist by Coel Hellier.
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21:01The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.De către Quillette
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Roald Dahl and the Ethics of Art by Iona Italia
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20:40The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable.De către Quillette
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Sage of Sex and Psyche by Steven Pinker
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22:02Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).De către Quillette
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'Jesus Wasn't Palestinian' by John Aziz
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10:21Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history.De către Quillette
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'The Baby Gate: A Memoir' by Steve Salerno
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40:02So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email.De către Quillette
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The Canadian Episode: Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s Travails
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40:50Quillette 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/adchoicesDe către Quillette
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'The Language of Soviet Propaganda' by Izabella Tabarovsky
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26:22Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.De către Quillette
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Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms?De către Quillette
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'Australia's Anti-Semitism Crisis' by Claire Lehmann
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9:53Claire Lehmann discusses the aftermath of a firebombing at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne and the perceived leadership failures in Australia relating to antisemitism. Lehmann argues that there is a leadership vacuum as key figures like Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fail to adequately address antisemitic incidents. This institutional indi…
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‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’
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15:45Quillette 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/adchoicesDe către Quillette
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Quillette 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/adchoicesDe către Quillette
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'Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing' by Pascal Bruckner
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40:55Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.De către Quillette
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'The Ceasefire Deal' by Benny Morris
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20:06As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear.De către Quillette
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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/adchoicesDe către Quillette
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'Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him' by Jonathan Kay
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13:34Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.De către Quillette
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'This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism' by John Aziz
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11:05Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.De către Quillette
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My Experience Working With Justin Trudeau: Jonathan Kay
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53:03Quillette's Senior Editor, Jonathan Kay reflects on his time ghostwriting Justin Trudeau’s memoir and shares his take on Trudeau’s political trajectory—from golden boy to polariser-in-chief. We get into the highs of his early leadership, his pivot to hardcore social progressivism, the fallout from the truckers’ protest, and the growing anxiety arou…
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The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires
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18:19Quillette 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/adchoicesDe către Quillette
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Iona Italia talks to eminent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about science, literature, and genetics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDe către Quillette
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Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas?
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18:02In 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/adchoicesDe către Quillette
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Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of A Theory of Everyone, about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDe către Quillette
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Quillette 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/adchoicesDe către Quillette
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'Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare' by Jonathan Kay
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22:12In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror.De către Quillette
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'Savage Entertainment' by Jaspreet Singh Boparai
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50:43A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history.De către Quillette
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'Interintellect and the Modern-Day Salon'
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19:12Iona Italia talks to globetrotter and intellectual magpie Anna Gat about her modern-day salon, Interintellect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDe către Quillette
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Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’
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17:12Quillette 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/adchoices…
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