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Quillette is an online magazine founded by Australian writer Claire Lehmann. The publication has a primary focus on science, technology, news, culture, and politics.

Quillette


    • Jul 3, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 36m AVG DURATION
    • 440 EPISODES

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    The Quillette Podcast is an exceptional podcast that deserves all the praise it receives. Hosted by Claire Lehmann and a team of knowledgeable interviewers, this podcast brings to light contrarian views and intelligent discussions on a wide range of topics. One of the best aspects of this podcast is its commitment to presenting diverse perspectives and viewpoints, contributing to a higher level of thinking and public discourse. The interviews are always respectful, enjoyable, and thought-provoking.

    One of the worst aspects of this podcast is the occasional poor sound quality, which can be distracting for listeners. It would be great if the production team could address this issue in order to enhance the overall listening experience.

    In conclusion, The Quillette Podcast stands out as a must-listen for anyone seeking intelligent conversations and thought-provoking discussions. This podcast brings much-needed diversity and nuance to public discourse, challenging mainstream narratives and promoting free thought. Despite its occasional sound quality issues, this podcast provides valuable insights and presents controversial topics in a respectful manner. Kudos to the team behind The Quillette Podcast for their courage, honesty, and dedication to delivering high-quality content.



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    Latest episodes from Quillette Podcast

    Protest? Polite Pass

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2024 34:05


    New York Times columnist Pamela Paul tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why standing around yelling slogans isn't her preferred way of changing the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    'Parsi Bombay Then and Now' with Nev March

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 90:40


    Iona Italia talks to Nev March about her novel, Murder in Old Bombay, set in late 19th-century India and about the Zoroastrians of Bombay past and present.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Justin Trudeau's Ominous Online Harms Act: ‘Minority Report' Comes to Canada

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 19:24


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic Magazine staff writer Conor Friedersdorf about an alarmingly censorious government bill that would allow officials to punish Canadians for things they haven't done yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Supporting Trans People Without Denying the Facts of Biology

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2024 40:24


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Duke University law school professor (and former U.S. National Collegiate athletic champion) Doriane Lambelet Coleman about her new book, On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Technology Is Not the Problem

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 64:52


    Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Timandra Harkness about her new book on technology, micro-targeting, personalisation and narcissism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The (Culture) War Diaries of Nellie Bowles

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2024 51:40


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Morning After the Revolution author Nellie Bowles about her tragicomic journalistic adventures amid progressive true believers and ideological enforcers—from the offices of The New York Times to the streets of Seattle and San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Recovery from Rape

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2024 59:01


    Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Larissa Phillips about the best ways to prevent rape and promote victims' recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Experiencing Autogynephilia

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2024 50:10


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to self-described 'Transsexual Apostate' Debbie Hayton about the link between male sexual self-attraction and transgender self-identification. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    Fighting Back Against Progressive ‘Neo-Racism'

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2024 42:05


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Coleman Hughes about his acclaimed new book, The End of Race: Politics Arguments for a Colorblind America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic' Women

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2024 39:55


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with fellow podcaster Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy, a “community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations about subjects that don't come with easy solutions.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Is Israel Really Committing Genocide in Gaza?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 46:17


    University of Florida historian Norman Goda tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he isn't persuaded by South Africa's claims against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Leaving MAGA

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2024 31:39


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Rich Logis, a one-time fervent Donald Trump supporter who's now renounced his MAGA beliefs—and is trying to help others do the same. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The Fine Line Between Denouncing ‘Settler Colonialism' and Supporting Terrorism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2024 33:16


    Atlantic magazine writer Michael Powell talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his latest article—The Curious Rise of Settler Colonialism and Turtle Island—in which he explains how activists are weaponizing fashionable academic doctrines to delegitimize the existence of Israel, the United States, and other Western societies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    How ‘Intersectional Feminism' Got Hijacked by Men

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2023 45:53


    Veteran feminist activist, author, and pundit Julie Bindel talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the need to protect hard-won women's rights from gender ideologues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Justinian

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2023 67:19


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Cambridge University historian Peter Sarris about his new book on Justinian the Great, the lowborn sixth century Byzantine emperor who remade Roman law, suppressed Christian heresies, built architectural wonders, and reconquered lost lands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The October 7 Terrorist Attacks, in Historical Perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2023 26:17


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to influential Israeli historian Benny Morris about Hamas' acts of mass murder, the Israeli response, and the future of Gaza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Eric Kaufmann's New ‘Centre for Heterodox Social Science'

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2023 38:10


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with political scientist Eric Kaufmann about cancel culture, switching universities, and why academics need to have honest conversations about the down side of immigration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash aka DJ Hookie

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2023 67:19


    Quillette editor and podcast host Iona Italia talks with speaker, DJ, and quadruple amputee Tom Nash about his new book, ‘Hook, Line, and Sinner.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 44:50


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychotherapist and book author Stella O'Malley, and parent “Josie A.,” about the need to heed parents' voices before “affirming” a child's desire for gender-transition therapies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Tracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (Formerly) Known as Wokeness

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2023 59:42


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Johns Hopkins University professor Yascha Mounk about the role of Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in shaping today's illiberal, identity-fixated political mantras—and how we can help lead progressives back to their liberal roots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 58:14


    Quillette associate editor Iona Italia interviews journalist John Colapinto, whose book "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl" chronicles the life of David Reimer, a Canadian man who was born as Bruce Reimer and subjected to a controversial and ultimately unsuccessful gender-reassignment following a botched circumcision. The book delves into the psychological, ethical, and medical complexities of David's life, from the surgical accident and subsequent interventions to his struggle with his gender identity. It also serves as a critique of Dr. John Money's theories on gender plasticity and the ethics of imposing a gender identity on a child unable to provide informed consent. Colapinto interviews various people involved in the case, including David Reimer himself, his family, and professionals who later questioned Money's work. The book paints a detailed picture of the Reimer family's ordeal, David's internal struggles, and the professional controversies that the case stirred up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious Movements

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2023 46:06


    Indian-Canadian podcast host Kushal Mehra interviews Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the radicalized beliefs and unsettling rituals that now characterize performative progressive politics in Canada and the rest of the Western world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Talking Science and Substacking in ‘Nash Vegas‘

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2023 26:06


    Podcast host Jonathan Kay shares a Nashville breakfast with journalist Christina Buttons and her Quillette-alumnus boyfriend, Colin Wright, author of the popular Substack, Reality's Last Stand Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    When DEI ‘Training' Becomes a Pretext for Bullying and Harassment: A Tragic Canadian Case Study

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2023 21:47


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    McMaster University's Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators' Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2023 27:40


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    Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2023 48:14


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    Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2023 40:20


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    Whom is the Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Industry Actually Helping?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2023 40:05


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    Bastardizing Beethoven, Mangling Mozart

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2023 47:24


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    Meghan Murphy on Sex, Feminism, Sports, Fast Food, The Walking Dead, Mexico, and Some Like It Hot

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2023 60:20


    Kellie-Jay Keen on Protecting Women, and Facing Down Aggressive Gender-Rights Mobs

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2023 30:18


    A Sample Episode from Our New Quillette Narrated Podcast: Don't Let Cancellation Become Banal, by Nina Paley

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2023 7:39


    Youth Gender Dysphoria and Social Contagion: Exploring the Latest Research

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2023 31:02


    Keeping Biological Males Out of Women's Swimming

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 22:57


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to NCAA backstroke champion-turned-activist Marshi Smith about her years in the pool, the Lia Thomas controversy, and Smith's campaign to protect the integrity of female sport.

    In Defence of the British Empire

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2023 42:36


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar, author of a newly published, best-selling book that examines the mixed legacy of British colonial rule.

    Fair Play for Female Athletes—Then and Now

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2023 34:20


    The Fight to Provide Gender Dysphoric Children with Holistic Therapy Instead of Instant ‘Affirmation'

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2023 29:03


    Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard: The Definitive Postmortem from an Unlikely Expert

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2023 53:19


    From Golden Girls Superfan to Right-Wing Culture Warrior: The Strange Journey of Dave Rubin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2023 46:56


    Discovering Your Inner ‘Demisexual'

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2022 29:59


    A Marriage Lost to Gender Identity

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2022 36:56


    How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the Guggenheim Museum's Top Curator

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2022 50:53


    Sahar Tartak on Fighting Back Against Coerced ‘Anti-Racist' Indoctrination in American Education

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2022 34:18


    Jonathan Kay on the State of Journalism, the Perils of Audience Capture, and the Art of Podcasting

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2022 33:16


    Andrew Lawton on the Political Legacy of Canada's 2022 ‘Freedom Convoy'

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2022 39:23


    Kushal Mehra on the Explosive Growth of YouTube in India

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2022 44:45


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Indian podcaster and YouTuber Kushal Mehra about the raucous, angry, informative, and often hilarious world of Indian YouTube.

    From VisiCalc to Global Cloud Computing: Lessons from a Lifelong Love Affair with Digital Technology

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2022 46:26


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to veteran Microsoft program manager, R&D coordinator, tablet-computing pioneer, and workplace visionary David Jones about the joy of spreadsheets, the art of “schedule chicken,” Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and “Clippy,” everyone's least favourite digital office assistant.

    When Workplace Anti-Racism Training Goes Off the Rails

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 31:24


    Nicole Levitt tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay what happened when diversity consultants were hired to teach the mantras of social justice to staff at her Philadelphia-based non-profit organization.

    Meet the 80-Year-Old Feminist Who Got Banned From the YMCA for Protesting Male Bodies in the Women‘s Locker Room

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2022 22:40


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to Port Townsend, WA-area swimmer Julie Jaman, the octogenarian whose efforts to keep biological men out of a changing area reserved for girls and women led to accusations of transphobia, a visit with the police, multiple town-council debates, and an ongoing Twitter campaign called #LetJulieSwim.

    Canada's Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2022 42:02


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to National Post reporter Terry Glavin about the blockbuster 2021 claim that hundreds of murdered Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves, the process by which that story began to unravel in the year that followed, and what the whole spectacle tells us about Canada's intellectual class.

    Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Privileged Class

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2022 29:27


    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Swedish Marxist Malcom Kyeyune, who argues that nominally progressive theories of race and gender are actually aimed at securing influence, employment, and prestige for underemployed university graduates.

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