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 Dawkins, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, and journalist Douglas Murray, among others. Expect candid conversations that promote common sense and challenge anti-science and conspiratorial narratives from both the far left and right.

Politics
Society & Culture
News
1
Should Feminists Work with the Right?
13 min
2
RFK Jr.’s Unprecedented Attack on Life-saving V...
37 min
3
The Modular Mind
14 min
4
A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran
15 min
5
What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped...
42 min
6
Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity
15 min
7
How LGB Became Estranged from T
36 min
8
War and the End of Empire
15 min
9
When Entertainment Reporting Gets Political
36 min
10
The First Journalists
15 min
11
Social Work Without Stereotypes
30 min
12
Science vs Māori Knowledge
With Kendall Clements
15 min
13
The Wars Before the War
35 min
14
The Catastrophe Hour
14 min
15
Enforced Ideological Conformity Among British A...
26 min
16
The Problem With ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’
19 min
17
Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Free-...
29 min
18
The Green Delusion
With Paul Brown
15 min
19
Lessons from the Luddites on Adapting to AI
36 min
20
Free Speech in Australia
13 min
21
Canada’s Strange Election Season
19 min
22
Making the Case for ‘Free-Range Parenting’
23 min
23
The Trouble with Tariffs
With John H. Cochrane
15 min
24
How Accurate Is 'Adolescence'?
14 min
25
The Scourge of the ‘Woke Right’
34 min