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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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49:54

Girls in an Online World

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/04/23

Iona Italia talks to writer Freya India about her book 'Girls: Gen Z and the Commodification of Everything.'Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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35:25

Documenting a Decade of Academic Meltdowns

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/04/20

Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock about her new CBC/BBC documentary, Speechless—which explores the rise of censorship and mobbings on campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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50:17

The Search for Truth

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/04/09

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to author Michael Shermer about his new book, Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:49

The Historical Case for Israel

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/04/05

In a new book, U.S. District Court Judge Roy Altman traces Jews’ indigenous presence in the holy land over the last 3,231 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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45:18

The Ayatollahs' Assassins

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/03/27

Iona Italia talks to Roya Hakakian about her book ‘Assassins of the Turquoise Palace’ and the past and present crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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45:07

When Everyone Knows Every Knows...

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/03/20

Iona Italia talks to cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker about his new book on Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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35:04

Has the Gay Rights Revolution Gone Too Far for the...

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/03/17

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University College London law professor Ronan McCrea about his new book, The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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37:21

The Extraordinary Exploits of Agent Zo

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/03/12

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to historian Clare Mulley about her biography of Polish war heroine Elżbieta Zawacka, aka Agent Zo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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34:55

Will Post-Islamist Iran Get a Royal Restoration?

Quillette Podcast ·

2026/03/06

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Iranian-Canadian human-rights activist Kaveh Shahrooz about whether Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the last Shah of Iran, might rise to power as a new Prince of Persia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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