Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
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Quillette's Community Manager, 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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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/adchoicesPor Quillette
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'Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing' by Pascal Bruckner
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Ever 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.Por Quillette
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My Experience Working With Justin Trudeau: Jonathan Kay
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Quillette'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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As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear.Por 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/adchoicesPor Quillette
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'Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him' by Jonathan Kay
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Justin 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.Por Quillette
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'This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism' by John Aziz
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Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.Por Quillette
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Quillette 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/adchoicesPor 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/adchoicesPor Quillette
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Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas?
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In 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/adchoicesPor 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/adchoicesPor Quillette
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'The Baby Gate: A Memoir' by Steve Salerno
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So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email.Por Quillette
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Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history.Por Quillette
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'Tyranny Is Not What It Used to Be' by Brian Stewart
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In 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.Por 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/adchoicesPor Quillette
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'Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess' by Iona Italia
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While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.Por Quillette
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'Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare' by Jonathan Kay
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In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror.Por Quillette
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'Anti-Zionism’s German Roots' by Gerfried Ambrosch
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While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.Por Quillette
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'Savage Entertainment' by Jaspreet Singh Boparai
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A 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.Por Quillette
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Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.Por Quillette
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'Trump and the Academic Cocoon' by Heather Mac Donald
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A 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.Por Quillette
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'Interintellect and the Modern-Day Salon'
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Iona Italia talks to globetrotter and intellectual magpie Anna Gat about her modern-day salon, Interintellect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Quillette
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Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’
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Quillette 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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Talking Far-Right Extremism and the Middle East with Richard Hanania
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Richard Hanania is an American political scientist and commentator, known for his right-wing perspectives and as president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. He faced controversy in 2023 when his past writings under a pseudonym advocating white nationalism resurfaced, which he has since disavowed. His book, The Origins of Wok…
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'Divorce and the Silver Bullet' by James C. Coren
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False allegations may be employed by either parent, but, given the prevailing winds of culture, the gun is far more often in the hand of a woman.Por Quillette
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Iona Italia talks to Sam Bowman about how to combat the economic stagnation and excess bureaucracy that are currently preventing the UK from reaching its full potential. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Quillette
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'Making America British Again' by David A. Wilson
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The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars.Por Quillette
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The Campaign Against 'Settler Colonialism’
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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Adam Kirsch about the growing corps of academics and activists seeking to demonize ‘settler colonialists’ in North America, Australia—and especially Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Quillette
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'Justice in Stockholm' by Roya Hakakian
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Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.Por Quillette
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If we are to fight for liberty for everyone—including Muslims—we must be serious about being ready to stand up to Islamists like Hamas, who seek to revive Islamic imperialism.Por Quillette
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Canadian Bureaucracy and Its Discontents
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Iona Italia talks to Nick Osmond-Jones about the impacts of some absurd DEI directives on Canadian public service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Quillette
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'A History of Feminist Antisemitism' by Kara Jesella
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The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred.Por Quillette
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'The Case for Life on Mars' by Stephen Fleming.
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Settling Mars isn’t just about making humanity a multi-planetary species. It is about improving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone on Earth.Por Quillette
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How Universities Should Regulate Contentious Speech
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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with prolific Harvard University legal scholar Cass Sunstein about his new book, Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Quillette
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'Blonde on Blonde' by Charlotte Allen.
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Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths.Por Quillette
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An Honest Conversation About Colonialism and Australia's History with Nigel Biggar
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On the 23rd of October, I sat down in Sydney, Australia, with the esteemed ethicist and theologian Nigel Biggar—Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford—to discuss King Charles' visit to Australia, whether Australia should cut ties with the British monarchy and become a republic, what it means to be a pat…
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The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution.Por Quillette
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