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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Society & Culture
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Machetes in Melbourne
13 min
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From Cult Child to Chess Wunderkind
36 min
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Desexing the Language of Motherhood
14 min
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Managing the Growing Gender-Critical Counterrev...
44 min
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The End of Woke
14 min
31
When New Netherland Became New York
34 min
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Should Feminists Work with the Right?
13 min
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RFK Jr.’s Unprecedented Attack on Life-saving V...
37 min
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The Modular Mind
14 min
35
A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran
15 min
36
What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped...
42 min
37
Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity
15 min
38
How LGB Became Estranged from T
36 min
39
War and the End of Empire
15 min
40
When Entertainment Reporting Gets Political
36 min
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The First Journalists
15 min
42
Social Work Without Stereotypes
30 min
43
Science vs Māori Knowledge
With Kendall Clements
15 min
44
The Wars Before the War
35 min
45
The Catastrophe Hour
14 min
46
Enforced Ideological Conformity Among British A...
26 min
47
The Problem With ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’
19 min
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Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Free-...
29 min
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The Green Delusion
With Paul Brown
15 min
50
Lessons from the Luddites on Adapting to AI
36 min