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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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14:55

The Modular Mind

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/08/28

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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15:52

A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/08/22

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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43:20

What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped Brain’?

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/08/16

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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16:02

Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/08/08

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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36:49

How LGB Became Estranged from T

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/07/31

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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16:02

War and the End of Empire

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/07/25

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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36:58

When Entertainment Reporting Gets Political

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/07/17

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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16:30

The First Journalists

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/07/11

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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30:46

Social Work Without Stereotypes

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/07/07

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Heterodox Academy scholar Nafees Alam about the need to challenge political orthodoxies in the field of social work.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:30

Science vs Māori Knowledge

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/06/27

Iona Italia talks to Professor Kendall Clements of the University of Auckland about attempts to conflate traditional Maori knowledge with science, which, he argues, debases both. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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36:37

The Wars Before the War

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/06/18

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews Jonathan Spyer, director of research at the Middle East Forum, about how Israel laid the groundwork for its war with Iran by confronting threats in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:31

The Catastrophe Hour

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/06/13

Writer Meghan Daum talks to Iona Italia about her new essay collection, The Catastrophe Hour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:42

Enforced Ideological Conformity Among British Artists

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/06/04

Dancer and choreographer Rosie Kay talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the three radioactive political topics that can derail an artist’s career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20:10

The Problem With ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/05/31

Harvard professor Steven Pinker tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why Donald Trump’s campaign against his university’s ‘woke’ policies goes too far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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30:42

Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Free-Speech...

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/05/26

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Ellie Avishai—who recently lost her affiliated position at UATX after she pushed back against the school’s strident anti-DEI messaging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:48

The Green Delusion

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/05/16

Iona Italia talks to engineer Paul Brown about the hidden costs of renewables and the skewed incentives that are driving some countries towards unsustainable energy policies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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37:18

Lessons from the Luddites on Adapting to AI

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/05/10

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Washington Post columnist and TED Talker Megan McArdle about the short-term pain—and long-term gain—heralded by the AI revolution.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:32

Free Speech in Australia

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/05/02

Iona Italia talks to Alan Davidson about censorship, self-censorship, the Online Safety Act and other threats to free speech in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20:31

Canada’s Strange Election Season

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/04/26

In advance of Monday’s nation-wide vote, Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay discusses Justin Trudeau’s resignation, Pierre Poilievre’s bad luck, the rise of Mark Carney, and the effects of Donald Trump’s aggressive protectionism on Canadian politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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23:28

Making the Case for ‘Free-Range Parenting’

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/04/19

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author and TED Talker Lenore Skenazy, whose campaign to give children more opportunities for independent play and learning once earned her the title of ‘America’s Worst Mother.’Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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