Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
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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 Richar ...
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Quillette's Zoe Booth, sits down with a guest to discuss some of the best Quillette articles from the week + more. Common themes include gender issues, feminism, free speech, evolutionary psychology, philosophy, politics, science and more.
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What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction?
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5:41Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.Av Quillette
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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with book author Ira Wells about the censorship demands emanating from both sides of the political spectrum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Quillette
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How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.Av Quillette
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Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist
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21:01The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.Av Quillette
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Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.Av Quillette
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Iona Italia talks to Brookings Institution senior fellow Jonathan Rauch about his latest book, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Quillette
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Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann speaks with Bangladeshi-born Australian psychiatrist and journalist Tanveer Ahmed about the rise of Jew-hatred in their country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Quillette
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Israel–Gaza: A War Between Cousins by John Aziz
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12:15Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.Av Quillette
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Demystifying Critical Race Theory by Josh Yuter
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33:45Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.Av Quillette
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Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution by Thomas F. Powers
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1:18:22Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.Av Quillette
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Universities Are Worth Saving by Jonathan Rauch
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24:53Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.Av Quillette
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'The Language of Sex' by Marilyn Simon
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18:27While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated.Av Quillette
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Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes have been growing more salient in western societies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Quillette
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'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke
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5:45A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.Av Quillette
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Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future by Razib Khan
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9:26Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.Av Quillette
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The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter by Razib Khan
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9:44The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.Av Quillette
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'Trump and the Academic Cocoon' by Heather Mac Donald
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19:51A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.Av Quillette
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Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.Av Quillette
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'Anti-Zionism’s German Roots' by Gerfried Ambrosch
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20:04While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.Av Quillette
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'Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess' by Iona Italia
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21:57While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.Av Quillette
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'Tyranny Is Not What It Used to Be' by Brian Stewart
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15:17In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time.Av Quillette
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The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die by Kevin Mims
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41:27Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.Av Quillette
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Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist by Coel Hellier.
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21:01The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.Av Quillette
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Roald Dahl and the Ethics of Art by Iona Italia
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20:40The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable.Av Quillette
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Sage of Sex and Psyche by Steven Pinker
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22:02Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).Av Quillette
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'Jesus Wasn't Palestinian' by John Aziz
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10:21Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history.Av Quillette
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'The Baby Gate: A Memoir' by Steve Salerno
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40:02So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email.Av Quillette
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The Canadian Episode: Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s Travails
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40:50Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Quillette
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'The Language of Soviet Propaganda' by Izabella Tabarovsky
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26:22Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.Av Quillette
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Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms?Av Quillette
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'Australia's Anti-Semitism Crisis' by Claire Lehmann
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9:53Claire Lehmann discusses the aftermath of a firebombing at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne and the perceived leadership failures in Australia relating to antisemitism. Lehmann argues that there is a leadership vacuum as key figures like Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fail to adequately address antisemitic incidents. This institutional indi…
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‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’
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15:45Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Quillette
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Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to “Mungo Manic” about his extensive research into the lives of the ancient Australians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Quillette
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'Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing' by Pascal Bruckner
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40:55Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.Av Quillette
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As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear.Av Quillette
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Quillette podcast host Iona Italia speaks with Dutch writer Marco Visscher, author of The Power of Nuclear: The Rise, Fall and Return of Our Mightiest Energy Source. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Quillette
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'Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him' by Jonathan Kay
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13:34Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.Av Quillette
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'This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism' by John Aziz
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11:05Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.Av Quillette
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My Experience Working With Justin Trudeau: Jonathan Kay
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53:03Quillette's Senior Editor, Jonathan Kay reflects on his time ghostwriting Justin Trudeau’s memoir and shares his take on Trudeau’s political trajectory—from golden boy to polariser-in-chief. We get into the highs of his early leadership, his pivot to hardcore social progressivism, the fallout from the truckers’ protest, and the growing anxiety arou…
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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Southern California scholar William Deverell about the enormous fires that have destroyed large swathes of the Los Angeles area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv Quillette
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