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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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36:44

Catching a Serial Killer

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/02/26

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Maureen Callaghan about her book American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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48:41

Why We Need to Talk About Transgender School Shooters

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/02/22

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with journalist Adam Zivo about the 10 February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia—a mass murder perpetrated by a trans-identified male gunman who was initially identified by police and journalists as a woman.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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47:47

Guests of the Nation

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/02/11

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to writer Lionel Shriver about her new novel, A Better Life, which tackles the theme of immigration.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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52:39

British Columbia’s Radical Political Landscape

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/02/07

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with B.C. politician Dallas Brodie about why her province continues to promote dubious social-justice policies and myths—including the false claim that 215 dead Indigenous children were discovered four years ago in ‘unmarked graves.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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53:30

The Demise of Private Life

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/01/29

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Tiffany Jenkins about her fascinating and provocative new history, 'Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.'Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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34:53

Understanding Journalistic Groupthink

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/01/17

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Graham Majin about the recent scandal at the BBC, and the need for reporters to prevent the ‘poison of narrative’ from corrupting their craftLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:01

Fighting for Freedom in Iran

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/01/08

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Iranian writer and journalist Roya Hakakian about the protests in Iran and why and how they might succeed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:01

How to Think Like a Human

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/01/02

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to psychologist David Weitzner about the differences between human cognition and artificial intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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31:08

Christmas in Byzantium

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/12/24

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with History of Byzantium podcast host Robin Pierson about the Christian traditions and imperial culture that took root in the eastern half of the Roman Empire . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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31:11

Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadian by...

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/12/19

⁠Prisoner #1056⁠ author Roy Ratnavel discusses his journey from a prison cell in war-torn Sri Lanka to the heights of Canada’s financial industry—and the (sometimes politically incorrect) lessons about race, immigration, and multiculturalism he’s learned along the way.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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82:17

The Genius of Jane Austen

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/12/17

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Jane Austen scholar John Mullan to commemorate the 250th anniversary of her birth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:23

Marriage and Divorce in America

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/12/04

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger about trends in marriage, divorce, and maternity in the US from the 1950s to the present day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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46:20

A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer...

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/11/30

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with writer Ben Appel about his new memoir, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender HereticLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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52:39

Jesse Brown’s Rude Awakening

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/11/21

In an interview with Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay, Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown discusses how an anti-Israel faction within his own subscriber base tried to cancel him after he began speaking out about the rise of antisemitism.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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37:19

Ancient Christianities: The First 500 Years

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/11/13

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with biblical scholar Paula Fredriksen, whose new book describes the theological diversity that existed among Christian communities before Nicene Christianity was adopted as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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53:21

Finding Humor in Dark Places

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/11/10

Quillette podcast host speaks with ⁠Healing Roar⁠ founder and comedian Matthew Pettit, who candidly tells audiences about the severe childhood abuse that once propelled him into a life of sexual confusion, meth addiction, crime, and incarceration.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:20

A Crisis of Tolerance

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/11/05

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Harry Saul Markham about the increasingly acute threat of Islamism in the UK and the normalisation of virulent antisemitism among British Muslims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:47

Is There a Politically Motivated ‘War on Science’?...

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/11/01

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss about ⁠his latest book projec⁠t, in which renowned scholars speak out about threats to open inquiry and the scientific process.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:35

Machetes in Melbourne

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/10/25

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to criminal justice researcher Andrew Bushnell about the many causes of the recent surge in crime in Melbourne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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37:13

From Cult Child to Chess Wunderkind

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/10/20

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Danny Rensch about his astounding journey from the ‘Church of Immortal Consciousness’ to the role of Chief Chess Officer at Chess.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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