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
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How to Think Like a Human
14 min
27
Christmas in Byzantium
30 min
28
Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadia...
30 min
29
The Genius of Jane Austen
81 min
30
Marriage and Divorce in America
14 min
31
A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer ...
45 min
32
Jesse Brown’s Rude Awakening
51 min
33
Ancient Christianities: The First 500 Years
36 min
34
Finding Humor in Dark Places
52 min
35
A Crisis of Tolerance
13 min
36
Is There a Politically Motivated ‘War on Scienc...
33 min
37
Machetes in Melbourne
13 min
38
From Cult Child to Chess Wunderkind
36 min
39
Desexing the Language of Motherhood
14 min
40
Managing the Growing Gender-Critical Counterrev...
44 min
41
The End of Woke
14 min
42
When New Netherland Became New York
34 min
43
Should Feminists Work with the Right?
13 min
44
RFK Jr.’s Unprecedented Attack on Life-saving V...
37 min
45
The Modular Mind
14 min
46
A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran
15 min
47
What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped...
42 min
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Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity
15 min
49
How LGB Became Estranged from T
36 min
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War and the End of Empire
15 min