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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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49:01

Evolutionary biologist (and new Quillette Managing...

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2020/08/08

Quillette Managing Editor Colin Wright explains why scientists no longer always feel free to speak up in the face of pseudoscience, and why he gave up his hunt for a job as a professor in the field of evolutionary biology for a career in journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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29:33

Quillette contributor Rob Henderson talks to Toby...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/07/31

Quillette contributor and Cambridge PhD student Rob Henderson talks to Toby Young about how cancel culture became one of America's most successful exports and why upper middle class whites have embraced the woke agenda. Rob recently wrote a piece for Quillette entitled America Exports Cancel Culture to the World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:27

Comedian Ryan Long talks to Jon Kay about comedy in...

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2020/07/25

Canadian comedian Ryan Long talks to Jonathan Kay about the nature of comedy in the current political climate. Ryan Long's skit "When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything" has recently gone viral. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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30:34

Founder and editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann talks to...

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2020/07/22

Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Jonathan Kay about how and why she created Quillette, and her plans for its future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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36:35

Michael Shellenberger talks to Quillette's Jonathan...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/07/11

Michael Shellenberger, President of Environmental Progress, talks to Jonathan Kay about global warming, natural disasters, media scaremongering—and why the world is actually getting safer, notwithstanding the scaremongering of Extinction Rebellion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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41:25

Physicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Quillette's...

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2020/07/04

Renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Jonathan Kay about his Quillette essay Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem and explains why he expressed skepticism about the sincerity of the #strike4blacklives campaign supported by so many science organisations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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51:02

Politics professor Eric Kaufmann talks to Quillette's...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/06/28

Professor Eric Kaufmann talks to Toby Young about his Quillette essay The Great Awakening and the Second American Revolution. He believes American may be going through something akin to China's Cultural Revolution in which many aspects of American society, from the constitution to the name of the country, could change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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21:37

Journalist Helen Joyce talks to Quillette's Jonathan...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/06/19

Quillette contributor Helen Joyce talks to Jonathan Kay about the many ways in which gender ideologues have tied themselves in knots by trying to make the sisterhood more "inclusive". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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51:44

Author and academic Joel Kotkin talks to Quillette's...

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2020/06/14

Joel Kotkin, executive director of the Urban Reform Institute and author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, talks to Toby Young about the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on American cities and the rioting that broke out following the death of George Floyd. Joel recently wrote about this in a piece entitled Pandemics and Pandemonium for Quillette. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:43

Professor Glen Loury talks to Quillette's Jonathan...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/06/07

Glenn Loury, a professor of economics at Brown University, talks to Jonathan Kay about the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. Professor Loury recently published a piece about this in Quillette entitled 'Condemn the Violence Without Equivocation.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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43:12

Author and Journalist David Frum talks to Quillette's...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/06/04

Former Bush speech writer David From talks to Jonathan Kay about the damage done by the Trump presidency and the way forward for America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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43:35

Journalist Cathy Young talks to Quillette's Jonathan...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/05/29

Writer and Journalist Cathy Young talks to Jonathan Kay about her investigations into Tara Reade’s evolving accusations against Joe Biden, and explains why the ranks of Reade’s supporters are shrinking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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23:43

Thomas Hale of Oxford University’s Blavatnik School...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/05/19

Thomas Hale, Associate Professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, talks to Jonathan Kay about a new research project aimed at comparing international policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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40:46

Financial Times journalist John Lloyd talks to...

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2020/05/14

John Lloyd, co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, talks to Toby Young about the geopolitical fall-out from the coronavirus crisis. Will the Conservatives win the next UK election? Can the EU recover its authority? And is this China's Chernobyl? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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25:57

JAMA associate managing news editor Jennifer Abbasi...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/04/30

Jennifer Abbasi, associate managing editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), talks to Jonathan Kay about new COVID-19 antibody tests that may help stop the pandemic and save the lives of those who are already infected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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25:21

Quillette editors Jonathan Kay and Toby Young talk...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/04/29

Jonathan Kay, Canadian editor of Quillette, talks to associate editor Toby Young about his recent article on COVID-19 superspreaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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21:29

Lawyer and sex worker Nadia Guo talks to Quillette’s...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/04/21

Nadia Guo, a sex worker and lawyer, talks to Jonathan Kay about the devastating impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the sex trade—although it's been great for the webcam business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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48:03

Dr Michael Shermer talks to Quillette's Toby Young...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/04/09

Science writer, author and Skeptic editor-in-chief Michael Shermer talks to Toby Young about his new book Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist. They talk about a range of free speech issues, including hate speech, Holocaust denial, the Pentagon Papers and Wikileaks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:24

Dr Jemma Geoghegan, a virologist at the University of...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/04/07

Dr Jemma Geoghegan, a virologist at the University of Otago, talks to Jonathan Kay on how viruses evolve and the lessons we can learn about social distancing from fish, dogs and rabbits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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46:33

Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care...

Quillette Podcast ·

2020/04/01

Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Jonathan Kay about COVID-19, the triage decisions he's having to make and what we've learnt from China about how best to treat it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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