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Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.

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13:39

Strange Bedfellows

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/04/13

The hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran.

14:36

Once Upon a Time...Film Critics Became Joyless—A Review

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/03/31

Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself.

18:55

Beautiful Visions

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/03/27

Van Morrison turns eighty.

23:07

The Many Faces of Tucker Carlson

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2026/03/18

A review of Jason Zengerle's biography of Tucker Carlson, tracing his fall from gifted journalist to antisemitic demagogue. By Graham Daseler.00:00 — Carlson’s childhood debate (playing Carter vs Reagan) 01:16 — Introduction to Zengerle’s book Hated by All the Right People 01:52 — Lesson: attacking opponents vs defending ideas 02:15 — Early career as a strong, independent conservative writer 03:23 — Exposé of Grover Norquist 03:43 — Transition to television and rise as a pundit 04:05 — Joining

14:10

The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan

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2026/03/11

Aaron Magid's biography examines how Jordan's King Abdullah has navigated 25 years of regional turmoil through Western alliances and survival.Written by Michael M. Rosen

34:49

Kissinger and Cambodia

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2026/03/08

Henry Kissinger’s policies influenced Cambodia’s fate, but they alone did not cause the rise of the Khmer Rouge.

46:07

Erasing the Word 'Woman'

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/03/04

This presentation is written and narrated by Dr Karleen Gribble, a researcher specialising in maternal and child health with particular expertise in breastfeeding and lactation policy.Dr Gribble argues that the replacement of sex-based language like "women," "mothers," and "breastfeeding" with gender-neutral terms like "pregnant people," "birthing bodies," and "chest feeding" in healthcare represents a failure of evidence-based medicine, cultural imperialism, and abuse of institutional power. She

20:01

Progressive Moral Reasoning and Iran’s Revolt

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2026/03/02

Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order. By Roohola Ramezani

14:07

Islamism: Shooting the Messenger

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/02/26

The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out.

25:03

The Mediocrity Feedback Loop

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/02/11

If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much.

35:06

The Sexual Paradise That Never Was

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/02/03

How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked.

24:45

The Forgotten Ford

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/01/28

Before Han Solo and Indiana Jones, there was another Harrison Ford, a star of silent cinema.

10:15

ICE Crackdown Backfires Like Daryl Gates' LAPD Era

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/01/27

The article "Who Got the Camera?" by Dilan Esper recalls Los Angeles policing debates in the 1980s-90s: high crime (gangs, drugs, homelessness) versus claims of LAPD brutality under Chief Daryl Gates, who treated policing like war and used extreme tactics.It details the 1991 Rodney King incident: King, a felon intoxicated during a high-speed chase (up to 117 mph), was beaten by four LAPD officers with batons and a taser. Neighbor George Holliday's camcorder video—showing prolonged punishment,

22:12

Censoring John and Yoko

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/01/21

A new boxset edits out one of John Lennon’s most controversial songs.

21:50

The Gentle Wildness of Tasmania

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/01/20

Tasmania has all the majesty of other windswept high-latitude places, but it has always been less barren, more hospitable, more generous in its beauty.

16:47

Among Savage Tribes

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/01/20

Napoleon Chagnon documented a society in which violent men enjoyed greater reproductive and marital success. Some of his academic colleagues never forgave him for it.

10:23

The Warmth of Collectivism

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/01/14

Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress.

20:15

Sad Radicals

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/01/13

As radicals, we lived in what I call a paradigm of suspicion, one of the malignant ideas that emerge as a result of intellectual in-breeding.

17:29

Yukio Mishima: Japan’s Cultural Martyr

Quillette Narrated ·

2026/01/07

Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before.

12:39

Bondi Attack Exposes Australia's Multicultural Blind...

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/12/29

The Bondi terrorist attack reveals how Australia's reluctance to discuss Islamic antisemitism and ideological motivations undermines cohesion. By Alan Davison.

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