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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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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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15:17

Desexing the Language of Motherhood

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/10/09

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Dr Karleen Gribble, who works in the field of maternal and infant health, on the impacts of desexed language on women’s healthcare and wellbeing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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45:01

Managing the Growing Gender-Critical Counterrevolution

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/10/04

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks with Canadian Genspect director Mia Hughes about the emerging ‘gender glasnost’—and the best way to continue rolling back the excesses of trans activism.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:24

The End of Woke

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/09/25

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to author Andrew Doyle about his new book, The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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35:18

When New Netherland Became New York

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/09/20

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Russell Shorto, whose new book chronicles the extraordinary events in 1664 that delivered Manhattan from the Dutch to the British.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:43

Should Feminists Work with the Right?

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/09/11

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith about her new book, Feminism Beyond Left and Right.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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38:02

RFK Jr.’s Unprecedented Attack on Life-saving Vaccines

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/09/06

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Stanford University infectious diseases expert Jake Scott about the perils of rolling back immunization treatments for COVID, RSV, and Measles.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:55

The Modular Mind

Quillette Podcast ·

2025/08/28

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist Rob Kurzban about his book Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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