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Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.

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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

Quillette Narrated ·

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.

11:30

The Infinite Reopening of History

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/12/24

Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history.

19:51

Game, Set, Match

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/12/23

Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays.

11:28

To Winter, With Love

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/12/22

The cold allows me to feel alive.

7:07

The Hatred We Must Name

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/12/22

We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price.By Iona Italia.

8:50

Bondi Was Not a Surprise

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/12/17

The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable. By Jack Pinczewski

12:19

The New Information Wars

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/12/09

Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.

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