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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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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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30:09

The Campaign Against 'Settler Colonialism’

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/11/13

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to book author Adam Kirsch about the growing corps of radicalized academics and activists seeking to demonize ‘settler colonialist’ societies in Canada, the United States, Australia—and especially Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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21:47

Canadian Bureaucracy and Its Discontents

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/11/08

Iona Italia talks to Nick Osmond-Jones about the impacts of some absurd DEI directives on Canadian public service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:06

How Universities Should Regulate Contentious Speech

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/11/02

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with prolific Harvard University legal scholar Cass Sunstein about his new book, Campus Free Speech: A Pocket GuideLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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21:36

Unreliable Sources

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/10/24

Iona Italia talks to Jack Despain Zhou (aka "Tracing Woodgrains") about the decline of standards at Wikipedia as a result of the obsessive efforts of ideologically motivated editors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:14

We Have Never Been Woke

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/10/18

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with scholar Musa al-Gharbi, whose acclaimed new book analyses the rise of progressive ideological orthodoxy as a means for elites to signal status and accumulate ‘cultural capital.’Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20:41

In Defence of Beauty with Megan Gafford

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/10/09

Iona Italia talks to artist Megan Gafford about how we have come to value statement-making over beauty and craftsmanship in art and architecture. To listen to the full episode, please become a Quillette subscriber https://quillette.com/#/portal/signup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:35

A Brief History of Communism with Sean McMeekin

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/10/04

Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin about his new book, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism. To listen to the full episode, please become a Quillette subscriber https://quillette.com/#/portal/signupLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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93:14

'Trans Rights, Israel and the Progressive Circus'...

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/09/25

'Trans Rights, Israel and the Progressive Circus' with Brianna Wu. Iona Italia talks to Democratic political campaigner Brianna Wu about finding a more sensible approach to trans rights and combating progressive insanity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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44:39

Tracing the Rise of Radicalized Anti-Zionism on...

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/09/12

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Paul Berman about the lingering influence of ’Black Power’ advocate Stokely Carmichael, who once infamously claimed that ’the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.’Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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59:46

'Israel: Germany's Reason of State'

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/09/03

Podcast host Iona Italia talks to Gerfried Ambrosch about pro-Israel feeling on the German Left, antisemitism among Muslim immigrants and why Israel’s safety is “Germany’s reason of state.”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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38:45

The (Other) Scandal at Oberlin College

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/08/28

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Roya Hakakian about the rise and fall of Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, a former Iranian official who’d presented himself to Oberlin as an agent of peace and ‘forgiveness.’Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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52:05

Bridging Divides Between Democrats and Republicans

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/08/21

Podcast host Iona Italia talks to John Wood, Jr. of Braver Angels about building a stronger democratic consensus in America.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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24:53

Should Imane Khelif be allowed to box against women?

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/08/15

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Manchester Developmental Biologist Emma Hilton about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who won the gold medal in the women's welterweight event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, despite widely reported indications that Khelif may be biologically male. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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36:28

How Gender Activists Took Over a Scottish Rape-Crisis...

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/08/08

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Joan Smith about the scandals that unfolded at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre under the leadership of its male trans-identified CEO, Mridul Wadhwa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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91:07

'How We Form Our Political Beliefs' with Oliver Traldi

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/08/02

Iona Italia talked to Oliver Traldi about his recent book, Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction. They discussed a number of philosophical questions with implications for everyone who is keenly interested in politics. What do we mean when we describe something as political? How do we form our political beliefs? Why do those views tend to cluster around certain anchoring beliefs? Is the marketplace of ideas a good metaphor for the way in which we arrive at political opinions? Why is

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70:30

'Language vs. Reality' with Nick Enfield

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/07/24

Iona Italia interviews linguistic anthropologist Nick Enfield about why language is good for lawyers and bad for scientists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:11

The Freedom to Blaspheme

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/07/17

Jonathan Kay speaks to fellow podcast host Kushal Mehra about the ‘eerie similarities’ between censorship campaigns in India and Canada.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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81:20

Life on Mars

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/07/09

Iona Italia talks to the president of the Mars Society, Robert Zubrin, who explains the intellectual, economic, social, and ecological advantages of settling the Red Planet and how to overcome the challenges of doing so.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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34:05

Protest? Polite Pass

Quillette Podcast ·

2024/07/03

New York Times columnist Pamela Paul tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why standing around yelling slogans isn’t her preferred way of changing the world.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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