Quillette Podcast

Long-form conversations with scientists, writers, historians, and public intellectuals on the ideas shaping — and dividing — the Western world.

Mostly hosted by Jonathan Kay — Canadian journalist, author, and Quillette editor whose books include Among the Truthers, a landmark investigation into conspiracy culture. Kay brings a rare combination of intellectual range, genuine curiosity, and willingness to push back, whether the subject is evolutionary biology, cancel culture, geopolitics, or the philosophy of free speech.

Non-dogmatic, evidence-driven, and unafraid of controversy.

Politics
Society & Culture
News
1
Why the Enlightenment Matters
44 min
2
The Case Against State-Sanctioned Euthanasia
33 min
3
An Ivy League University Looks Inward
45 min
4
The Last Straight Woman
43 min
5
Is Fighting Antisemitism a Waste of Time?
31 min
6
Girls in an Online World
49 min
7
Documenting a Decade of Academic Meltdowns
34 min
8
The Search for Truth
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.
49 min
9
The Historical Case for Israel
33 min
10
The Ayatollahs' Assassins
44 min
11
When Everyone Knows Every Knows...
44 min
12
Has the Gay Rights Revolution Gone Too Far for ...
34 min
13
The Extraordinary Exploits of Agent Zo
36 min
14
Will Post-Islamist Iran Get a Royal Restoration?
34 min
15
Catching a Serial Killer
35 min
16
Why We Need to Talk About Transgender School Sh...
47 min
17
Guests of the Nation
47 min
18
British Columbia’s Radical Political Landscape
51 min
19
The Demise of Private Life
52 min
20
Understanding Journalistic Groupthink
34 min
21
Fighting for Freedom in Iran
14 min
22
How to Think Like a Human
14 min
23
Christmas in Byzantium
30 min
24
Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadia...
30 min
25
The Genius of Jane Austen
81 min