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Quillette Podcast
Quillette
314 episodes
5 days ago
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 Richard Dawkins, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, and journalist Douglas Murray, among others. Expect candid conversations that promote common sense and challenge anti-science and conspiratorial narratives from both the far left and right.
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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 Richard Dawkins, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, and journalist Douglas Murray, among others. Expect candid conversations that promote common sense and challenge anti-science and conspiratorial narratives from both the far left and right.
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Politics
Society & Culture,
News,
News Commentary,
Science
Episodes (20/314)
Quillette Podcast
Ancient Christianities: The First 500 Years
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with biblical scholar Paula Fredriksen, whose new book describes the theological diversity that existed among Christian communities before Nicene Christianity was adopted as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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5 days ago
37 minutes

Quillette Podcast
Finding Humor in Dark Places
Quillette podcast host speaks with ⁠Healing Roar⁠ founder and comedian Matthew Pettit, who candidly tells audiences about the severe childhood abuse that once propelled him into a life of sexual confusion, meth addiction, crime, and incarceration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 week ago
53 minutes

Quillette Podcast
A Crisis of Tolerance
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Harry Saul Markham about the increasingly acute threat of Islamism in the UK and the normalisation of virulent antisemitism among British Muslims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 week ago
14 minutes

Quillette Podcast
Is There a Politically Motivated ‘War on Science’? (And If So, Who’s Waging It?)
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss about ⁠his latest book projec⁠t, in which renowned scholars speak out about threats to open inquiry and the scientific process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 weeks ago
33 minutes

Quillette Podcast
Machetes in Melbourne
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to criminologist Andrew Bushnell about the many causes of the recent surge in crime in Melbourne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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3 weeks ago
14 minutes

Quillette Podcast
From Cult Child to Chess Wunderkind
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Danny Rensch about his astounding journey from the ‘Church of Immortal Consciousness’ to the role of Chief Chess Officer at Chess.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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4 weeks ago
37 minutes

Quillette Podcast
Desexing the Language of Motherhood
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Dr Karleen Gribble, who works in the field of maternal and infant health, on the impacts of desexed language on women’s healthcare and wellbeing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 month ago
15 minutes

Quillette Podcast
Managing the Growing Gender-Critical Counterrevolution
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks with Canadian Genspect director Mia Hughes about the emerging ‘gender glasnost’—and the best way to continue rolling back the excesses of trans activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 month ago
45 minutes

Quillette Podcast
The End of Woke
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to author Andrew Doyle about his new book, The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 month ago
15 minutes

Quillette Podcast
When New Netherland Became New York
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Russell Shorto, whose new book chronicles the extraordinary events in 1664 that delivered Manhattan from the Dutch to the British. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 month ago
35 minutes

Quillette Podcast
Should Feminists Work with the Right?
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith about her new book, Feminism Beyond Left and Right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 months ago
14 minutes

Quillette Podcast
RFK Jr.’s Unprecedented Attack on Life-saving Vaccines
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Stanford University infectious diseases expert Jake Scott about the perils of rolling back immunization treatments for COVID, RSV, and Measles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 months ago
38 minutes

Quillette Podcast
The Modular Mind
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist Rob Kurzban about his book Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 months ago
14 minutes

Quillette Podcast
A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Roya Hakakian about her extraordinary memoir, Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 months ago
15 minutes

Quillette Podcast
What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped Brain’?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to linguist, mathematician, and tournament organizer John Chew about the world of ultra-elite Scrabble word-masters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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3 months ago
43 minutes

Quillette Podcast
Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity
Iona Italia talks to novelist and historian Nev March about how a series of landmark court cases in the 19th and 20th centuries upended both the Indian legal system and the Parsi community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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3 months ago
16 minutes

Quillette Podcast
How LGB Became Estranged from T
Gay activist-turned-journalist Adam Zivo explains how radicalized forms of trans and queer advocacy became a liability to the once-united LGBT movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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3 months ago
36 minutes

Quillette Podcast
War and the End of Empire
Iona Italia talks to historian and film-maker Phil Craig about the latest in his series of books about World War II: 1945: A Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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3 months ago
16 minutes

Quillette Podcast
When Entertainment Reporting Gets Political
Quillette podcast host interviews veteran entertainment journalist Ben Mulroney—whose career has taken him to the Oscars red carpet and Kelly Ripa’s studio—about how ideological fads have damaged his industry.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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4 months ago
36 minutes

Quillette Podcast
The First Journalists
The philosopher Stephen Harrop interviews Quillette’s Managing Editor Iona Italia about her book Anxious Employment on the journalism of Enlightenment London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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4 months ago
16 minutes

Quillette Podcast
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 Richard Dawkins, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, and journalist Douglas Murray, among others. Expect candid conversations that promote common sense and challenge anti-science and conspiratorial narratives from both the far left and right.