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
A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran
15 min
2
What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped...
42 min
3
Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity
15 min
4
How LGB Became Estranged from T
36 min
5
War and the End of Empire
15 min
6
When Entertainment Reporting Gets Political
36 min
7
The First Journalists
15 min
8
Social Work Without Stereotypes
30 min
9
Science vs Māori Knowledge
With Kendall Clements
15 min
10
The Wars Before the War
35 min
11
The Catastrophe Hour
14 min
12
Enforced Ideological Conformity Among British A...
26 min
13
The Problem With ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’
19 min
14
Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Free-...
29 min
15
The Green Delusion
With Paul Brown
15 min
16
Lessons from the Luddites on Adapting to AI
36 min
17
Free Speech in Australia
13 min
18
Canada’s Strange Election Season
19 min
19
Making the Case for ‘Free-Range Parenting’
23 min
20
The Trouble with Tariffs
With John H. Cochrane
15 min
21
How Accurate Is 'Adolescence'?
14 min
22
The Scourge of the ‘Woke Right’
34 min
23
Anti-Zionism, Past and Present
14 min
24
On Book Banning
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with book author Ira Wells about the censorship demands emanating from both sides of the political spectrum.
25 min
25
Christianity and the American Polity
Iona Italia talks to Brookings Institution senior fellow Jonathan Rauch about his latest book, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy.
14 min