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.
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The Wars Before the War
35 min
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The Catastrophe Hour
14 min
53
Enforced Ideological Conformity Among British A...
26 min
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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
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Lessons from the Luddites on Adapting to AI
36 min
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Free Speech in Australia
13 min
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Canada’s Strange Election Season
19 min
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Making the Case for ‘Free-Range Parenting’
23 min
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The Trouble with Tariffs
With John H. Cochrane
15 min
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How Accurate Is 'Adolescence'?
14 min
63
The Scourge of the ‘Woke Right’
34 min
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Anti-Zionism, Past and Present
14 min
65
On Book Banning
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with book author Ira Wells about the censorship demands emanating from both sides of the political spectrum.
25 min
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Christianity and the American Polity
Iona Italia talks to Brookings Institution senior fellow Jonathan Rauch about his latest book, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy.
14 min
67
Australia’s Antisemitism Crisis
Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann speaks with Bangladeshi-born Australian psychiatrist and journalist Tanveer Ahmed about the rise of Jew-hatred in their country.
14 min
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The Great Divergence
Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes have been growing more salient in western societies.
16 min
69
The Canadian Episode: Trump’s Tariffs and Trude...
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape.
40 min
70
‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism.
15 min
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'The Power of Nuclear'
Quillette podcast host Iona Italia speaks with Dutch writer Marco Visscher, author of “The Power of Nuclear: The Rise, Fall and Return of Our Mightiest Energy Source”
17 min
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The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Southern California scholar William Deverell about the enormous fires that have destroyed large swathes of the Los Angeles area.
17 min
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Reading and Writing Science
With Richard Dawkins.
44 min
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Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas?
In a special yuletide episode, Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Crowther about seventeenth-century puritan attitudes toward yuletide debauchery—and about his acclaimed History of England podcast.
17 min
75
'A Theory of Everyone'
With Michael Muthukrishna
17 min