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.

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1
Will Post-Islamist Iran Get a Royal Restoration?
34 min
2
Catching a Serial Killer
35 min
3
Why We Need to Talk About Transgender School Sh...
47 min
4
Guests of the Nation
47 min
5
British Columbia’s Radical Political Landscape
51 min
6
The Demise of Private Life
52 min
7
Understanding Journalistic Groupthink
34 min
8
Fighting for Freedom in Iran
14 min
9
How to Think Like a Human
14 min
10
Christmas in Byzantium
30 min
11
Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadia...
30 min
12
The Genius of Jane Austen
81 min
13
Marriage and Divorce in America
14 min
14
A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer ...
45 min
15
Jesse Brown’s Rude Awakening
51 min
16
Ancient Christianities: The First 500 Years
36 min
17
Finding Humor in Dark Places
52 min
18
A Crisis of Tolerance
13 min
19
Is There a Politically Motivated ‘War on Scienc...
33 min
20
Machetes in Melbourne
13 min
21
From Cult Child to Chess Wunderkind
36 min
22
Desexing the Language of Motherhood
14 min
23
Managing the Growing Gender-Critical Counterrev...
44 min
24
The End of Woke
14 min
25
When New Netherland Became New York
34 min