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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

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30:46

Daphne Merkin on the Baseless Abuse Claims Against...

Quillette Podcast ·

2021/04/04

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to journalist Daphne Merkin, author of a widely discussed 2018 New York Magazine article on Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, about HBO’s highly torqued documentary, 'Allen v. Farrow,' and the dubious claims it contains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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37:25

Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten on Portland's...

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2021/03/28

Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to two ex-Portlanders about how the COVID-19 pandemic and a year of violent protests turned their once beloved city into a fractured, downwardly mobile arena for America's culture war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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34:40

Psychiatrist Andrew Lustig on the Conspiracist...

Quillette Podcast ·

2021/03/19

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks to Canadian researcher Andrew Lustig about his research on the web-based communities of individuals who believe they are surrounded by evidence of an enormous “gangstalking” conspiracy, involving dozens or even hundreds of individuals, aimed at causing them to become insane or commit suicide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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35:43

Evolutionary Psychologist (and Twitter Hit Man) Gad...

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2021/03/13

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Concordia University marketing professor Gad Saad about his take-no-prisoners social-media style, Lebanese politics, and the inner ideological life of Seth Rogen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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43:11

Andrew Doyle—The Brain Behind Titania McGrath—on His...

Quillette Podcast ·

2021/03/09

Jonathan Kay interviews comedian, social critic, and book author Andrew Doyle on why he thinks government censors are a bigger threat to a free society than the bigots they’re seeking to cancel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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43:32

Literary Critic (and Sopranos Cameo Actor) Leon...

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2021/03/01

Host Jonathan Kay talks to long-time New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier about ‘Liberties,’ the ambitious literary journal he founded after getting Me-Too’d—and many other subjects besides, including the future of journalism, the innocence of Woody Allen, the allure of jazz music, and Nicolas Cage’s underrated cinematic masterpiece, 'Gone In 60 Seconds' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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30:30

Sociologist Nathalie Heinich on French Academics'...

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2021/02/22

Quillette's Jonathan Kay speaks to eminent French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, founder of a new organization that opposes the spread of America's race-fixated academic movements into French campuses. While many conservatives have traditionally complained about the excesses of "French theory," Prof. Heinich argues, many harmful ideas are now crossing the Atlantic in the opposite direction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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38:50

Social Media Network Creator Brian Amerige: If You...

Quillette Podcast ·

2021/02/15

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerige—a former team leader at Facebook, and now the CEO of Thoughtful—about the content-moderation lessons he’s learned from established social-media giants, and how we can create something better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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40:10

Minds.Com CEO Bill Ottman on Censorship, ‘Algorithmic...

Quillette Podcast ·

2021/02/04

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bill Ottman, co-founder of the Minds social-media network, about the challenges facing Silicon Valley communications giants Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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65:07

John McWhorter on the Ideological Excesses of the...

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2021/01/19

Columbia University professor and Atlantic Magazine writer John McWhorter speaks with political satirist and TV presenter Josh Szeps about the transformation of radicalized progressive politics into a religious-style belief system Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:59

Cheri Jacobus on How Donald Trump Used Twitter to...

Quillette Podcast ·

2021/01/13

Jonathan Kay speaks with Cheri Jacobus, a veteran Republican Party worker and conservative media figure who was mobbed and deplatformed after she called out Donald Trump for his abusive rhetoric and dubious campaign tactics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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43:13

Philippe Lemoine on the Case for Lockdown Skepticism

Quillette Podcast ·

2021/01/06

Jonathan Kay speaks to Philippe Lemoine about problematic assumptions embedded in the models used to support COVID lockdown policy. Yes, separating people helps reduce virus transmission and saves lives. But forced isolation also can generate serious (and often life-threatening) risks. Moreover, how much of the beneficial effects attributed to lockdowns are the result of disease-avoidant behaviours that most of us would engage in anyway? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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45:20

Professor Tania Reynolds on the Controversy Over...

Quillette Podcast ·

2021/01/02

University of New Mexico social psychologist Tania Reynolds speaks with Jonathan Kay about Nature Communications' questionable decision to retract a controversial article, the intrusion of ideology into scholarship about academic mentorship, and the principles of evolutionary biology that may affect female professional relationships Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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44:36

Toby Young on the Free Speech Union, and His Campaign...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/12/24

Jonathan Kay talks to colleague Toby Young about the fine line between journalism and activism, the politics of censorship, and his start-up year at the Free Speech Union Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:02

Oren Cass on the Conservative Case for Labor Unions

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2020/12/17

As the conservative movement enters a period of post-Trump flux, American Compass CEO Oren Cass explains to Quillette's Jonathan Kay why a right-leaning coalition with organized labor now makes sense Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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31:52

Nicholas Christakis on His New Book, ‘Apollo’s Arrow:...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/12/10

Yale Sociologist and Physician Nicholas Christakis speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the origins of COVID-19, how it compares to Bubonic plague and Spanish Flu, and the way it will shape the future of our societies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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35:54

Historian Benny Morris on the Turks’ Forgotten...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/12/08

Jonathan Kay speaks to famed Middle Eastern historian Benny Morris, whose latest book explores the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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22:12

Abigail Shrier on Her New Book About Peer Contagion...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/12/06

Jonathan Kay speaks to Wall Street Journal contributor Abigail Shrier about the epidemic of teenage girls seeking gender reassignment, the backlash against her book—and the backlash against the backlash Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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26:00

Yale School of Public Health Professor David Paltiel...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/11/28

Jonathan Kay speaks to public health expert David Paltiel about how mass vaccination could help end the COVID-19 pandemic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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31:59

Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/11/23

Author Shelby Steele speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about white guilt, the ‘poetic truth’ of Ferguson, the dead end of racial grievances, and the creative process of working with his son Eli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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