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
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The End of Woke
14 min
27
When New Netherland Became New York
34 min
28
Should Feminists Work with the Right?
13 min
29
RFK Jr.’s Unprecedented Attack on Life-saving V...
37 min
30
The Modular Mind
14 min
31
A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran
15 min
32
What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped...
42 min
33
Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity
15 min
34
How LGB Became Estranged from T
36 min
35
War and the End of Empire
15 min
36
When Entertainment Reporting Gets Political
36 min
37
The First Journalists
15 min
38
Social Work Without Stereotypes
30 min
39
Science vs Māori Knowledge
With Kendall Clements
15 min
40
The Wars Before the War
35 min
41
The Catastrophe Hour
14 min
42
Enforced Ideological Conformity Among British A...
26 min
43
The Problem With ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’
19 min
44
Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Free-...
29 min
45
The Green Delusion
With Paul Brown
15 min
46
Lessons from the Luddites on Adapting to AI
36 min
47
Free Speech in Australia
13 min
48
Canada’s Strange Election Season
19 min
49
Making the Case for ‘Free-Range Parenting’
23 min
50
The Trouble with Tariffs
With John H. Cochrane
15 min