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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'Parsi Bombay Then and Now' with Nev March
Iona Italia talks to Nev March about her novel, Murder in Old Bombay, and about the Zoroastrians of Bombay, past and present.
89 min
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Justin Trudeau’s Ominous Online Harms Act: ‘Min...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic Magazine staff writer Conor Friedersdorf about an alarmingly censorious government bill that would allow officials to punish Canadians for things they haven’t done yet.
18 min
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Supporting Trans People Without Denying the Fac...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Duke University law school professor (and former U.S. National Collegiate athletic champion) Doriane Lambelet Coleman about her new book, “On Sex and Gender”
39 min
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Technology Is Not the Problem
Iona Italia talks to Timandra Harkness about her new book, on our ambivalent relationship with personalised technology.
64 min
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The (Culture) War Diaries of Nellie Bowles
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with ‘Morning After the Revolution’ author Nellie Bowles about her tragicomic journalistic adventures amid progressive true believers—from the offices of The New York Times to the streets of San Francisco
50 min
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'Recovery from Rape' with Larissa Phillips
Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Larissa Phillips about the best ways to prevent rape and promote victims' recovery
58 min
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Experiencing Autogynephilia
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to self-described 'Transsexual Apostate’ Debbie Hayton about the link between sexual self-attraction and transgender self-identification.
49 min
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Fighting Back Against Progressive ‘Neo-Racism’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Coleman Hughes about his acclaimed new book, ‘The End of Race Politics Arguments for a Colorblind America’
41 min
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Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with fellow podcaster Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy.
39 min
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Is Israel Really Committing Genocide in Gaza?
University of Florida historian Norman Goda tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he isn’t persuaded by South Africa’s claims against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
45 min
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Leaving MAGA
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Rich Logis, a one-time fervent Donald Trump supporter who’s now renounced his MAGA beliefs—and is trying to help others do the same.
30 min
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The Fine Line Between Denouncing ‘Settler Colon...
Atlantic magazine writer Michael Powell talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his latest article—‘The Curious Rise of Settler Colonialism and Turtle Island’—in which he explains how activists are weaponizing fashionable academic doctriness to delegitimize the existence of Israel, the United States, and other Western societies.
32 min
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How ‘Intersectional Feminism’ Got Hijacked by Men
Veteran feminist activist, author, and pundit Julie Bindel talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the need to protect hard-won women’s rights from gender ideologues.
45 min
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The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Justinian
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Cambridge University historian Peter Sarris about Justinian the Great, the lowborn sixth-century Byzantine emperor who remade Roman law, suppressed Christian heresies, built architectural wonders, and reconquered lost lands.
66 min
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The October 7 Terrorist Attacks, in Historical ...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to influential Israeli historian Benny Morris about Hamas’ acts of mass murder, the Israeli response, and the future of Gaza.
25 min
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Eric Kaufmann’s New ‘Centre for Heterodox Socia...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with academic Eric Kaufmann about cancel culture, switching universities, and why academics need to have honest conversations about the down side of immigration.
37 min
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The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash aka DJ Hookie
Quillette editor and podcast host Iona Italia talks with speaker, DJ, and quadruple amputee Tom Nash about his new book, ‘Hook, Line, and Sinner.’
66 min
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Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Id...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychotherapist and book author Stella O’Malley, and parent ‘Josie A.,’ about the need to heed parents’ voices before ‘affirming’ a child’s desire for gender-transition therapies
44 min
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Tracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Johns Hopkins University professor Yascha Mounk about the role of Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in shaping today’s illiberal, identity-fixated political mantras—and how we can help lead progressives back to their liberal roots.
58 min
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Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of...
Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl
57 min
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Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racia...
Indian-Canadian podcast host Kushal Mehra interviews Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the radicalized beliefs and usettling rituals that now characterize performative progressive politics in Canada and the rest of the Western world.
45 min
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Talking Science and Substacking in ‘Nash Vegas‘
Podcast host Jonathan Kay shares a Nashville breakfast with journalist Christina Buttons and her Quillette-alumnus boyfriend, Colin Wright, author of the popular Substack, ‘Reality’s Last Stand.’
25 min
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When DEI ‘Training’ Becomes a Pretext for Bully...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with municipal politician Bill Dennis about diversity consultant Kike Ojo-Thompson, whose training methods became infamous following the recent suicide of Toronto educator Richard Bilkszto (1963-2023).
21 min
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McMaster University’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncov...
Lawrence Krauss, host of The Origins Podcast, interviews Jonathan Kay about his Quillette investigation into the spread of false rape allegations on a Canadian university campus in 2020.
27 min
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Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to acclaimed historian Orlando Figes, whose new book traces Russia’s political dysfunction back to the age of Byzantium and the Mongol invasion.
48 min