Quillette Podcast

Quillette is where free thought lives. We are an online magazine that is politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values.

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Keeping Biological Males Out of Women’s Swimming
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to NCAA backstroke champion-turned-activist Marshi Smith about her years in the pool, the Lia Thomas controversy, and Smith’s campaign to protect the integrity of female sport.
22 min
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In Defence of the British Empire
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar, author of a newly published, best-selling book that examines the mixed legacy of British colonial rule.
42 min
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Fair Play for Female Athletes—Then and Now
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to former U.S. Olympic team rower Mary O’Connor about her 1970s-era fight against sports sexism—and today’s battle to keep male bodies out of women’s rowing
34 min
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The Fight to Provide Gender Dysphoric Children ...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with James Esses, an aspiring British therapist who was expelled from his training institute for voicing concerns about ideologically programmed restrictions on the care of trans-identified youth.
29 min
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Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard: The Definitive ...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to literary journalist Charlotte Allen about her self-confessed “secret appetite” for trashy Hollywood stories, and her exhaustive Quillette article about Depp’s successful defamation suit against his ex-wife.
53 min
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From Golden Girls Superfan to Right-Wing Cultur...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Ross Anderson about the Rubin Report’s increasingly conservative (and angry) star host
46 min
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Discovering Your Inner ‘Demisexual’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield of Feminine Chaos, about why young straight women are inventing new (and dubious) queer subcategories
29 min
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A Marriage Lost to Gender Identity
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to author Shannon Thrace—whose 16-year marriage fell apart after her newly transitioned husband became immersed in the ideologically uncompromising world of online transgender activism.
36 min
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How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic Magazine writer Helen Lewis about the fate of Nancy Spector, who lost her job at the pinnacle of the Manhattan art world amidst a flurry of unsubstantiated accusations by independent scholar Chaédria LaBouvier.
50 min
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Sahar Tartak on Fighting Back Against Coerced ‘...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale undergraduate student Sahar Tartak, who led a successful revolt against the ultra-progressive administration of her Long Island public high school
34 min
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Jonathan Kay on the State of Journalism, the Pe...
For the 200th episode, Quillette founder Claire Lehmann interviews host Jonathan Kay about the evolution of his journalistic career before and after joining Quillette.
33 min
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Andrew Lawton on the Political Legacy of Canada...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with True North journalist Andrew Lawton about his new Sutherland House book, ”The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World”
39 min
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Kushal Mehra on the Explosive Growth of YouTube...
44 min
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From VisiCalc to Global Cloud Computing: Lesson...
46 min
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When Workplace Anti-Racism Training Goes Off th...
31 min
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Meet the 80-Year-Old Feminist Who Got Banned Fr...
22 min
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Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did ...
42 min
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Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy ...
29 min
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James Kirchick on ‘Secret City: The Hidden Hist...
35 min
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Richard Dawkins on the Wonders of Flight
26 min
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‘Sex Realism’ Versus ‘Sex Denialism’: Is the Ti...
47 min
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Progressive Social Panic at Yale and Princeton
45 min
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How Elon Musk Can Promote Free Speech—Without T...
34 min
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Rob Montz on Harvard University’s Campaign Agai...
28 min
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Frances Widdowson on the Questions Canadians Ar...
38 min