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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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16:15

The Trouble with Tariffs

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/04/12

Iona Italia talks to John H. Cochrane aka "The Grumpy Economist" about the motivations, effects and implications of Donald Trump's economic policies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:36

How Accurate Is 'Adolescence'?

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/04/05

Iona Italia talks to William Costello, an evolutionary psychologist whose work focuses on incels, about what the Netflix series 'Adolescence' gets right and wrong about this group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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35:33

The Scourge of the ‘Woke Right’

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/03/28

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author and satirist Andrew Doyle about the worrying rise of illiberal ideologies and cultish political tendencies among conservatives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:38

Anti-Zionism, Past and Present

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/03/20

Quillette’s Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to scholar Izabella Tabarovsky about the Soviet roots of contemporary anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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26:05

On Book Banning

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/03/15

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with book author Ira Wells about the censorship demands emanating from both sides of the political spectrum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:18

Christianity and the American Polity

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/03/06

Iona Italia talks to Brookings Institution senior fellow Jonathan Rauch about his latest book, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:25

Australia’s Antisemitism Crisis

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/02/23

Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann speaks with Bangladeshi-born Australian psychiatrist and journalist Tanveer Ahmed about the rise of Jew-hatred in their country.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:40

The Great Divergence

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/02/14

Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes have been growing more salient in western societies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:13

The Canadian Episode: Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s...

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/02/08

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:45

‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’

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2025/02/01

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:31

Ancient Australians

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/01/24

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/adchoices

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17:47

'The Power of Nuclear'

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/01/18

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/adchoices

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18:19

The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/01/11

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/adchoices

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44:51

Reading and Writing Science

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/01/11

Iona Italia talks to eminent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about science, literature, and genetics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:02

Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas?

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/12/24

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/adchoices

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17:52

'A Theory of Everyone'

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/12/20

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/adchoices

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20:15

In Defence of Julia the Elder

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/12/13

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/adchoices

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19:12

'Interintellect and the Modern-Day Salon'

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/12/06

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/adchoices

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41:48

Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free...

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/11/30

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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21:20

'Making Britain Great Again'

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/11/19

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/adchoices

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