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| 'Trans Rights, Israel and the Progressive Circus' with Brianna Wu | 25 Sep 2024 | 01:33:14 | |
'Trans Rights, Israel and the Progressive Circus' with Brianna Wu. Iona Italia talks to Democratic political campaigner Brianna Wu about finding a more sensible approach to trans rights and combating progressive insanity.
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| Tracing the Rise of Radicalized Anti-Zionism on American Campuses | 12 Sep 2024 | 00:44:39 | |
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Paul Berman about the lingering influence of ’Black Power’ advocate Stokely Carmichael, who once infamously claimed that ’the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.’
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| 'Life on Mars' with Robert Zubrin | 09 Jul 2024 | 01:21:20 | |
Iona Italia talks to the president of the Mars Society, Robert Zubrin, who explains the intellectual, economic, social, and ecological advantages of settling the Red Planet and how to overcome the challenges of doing so.
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| Jonathan Rauch on the importance of free speech in an age of misinformation | 17 Jun 2021 | 00:30:49 | |
Quillette's Toby Young talks to free speech advocate and Brookings Institution Fellow Jonathan Rauch about his new book The Constitution of Knowledge.
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| Michael Shermer on Our Enduring Fascination with UFOs | 14 Jun 2021 | 00:37:44 | |
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to UFO expert Michael Shermer about why we keep searching the skies for signs of alien visitors (and why we always come away disappointed)
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| Nicholas Wade Explains Why It’s No Longer Taboo to Ask Whether COVID-19 Was Caused by a Chinese Lab Leak | 07 Jun 2021 | 00:27:16 | |
Quillette’s Razib Khan speaks with veteran science writer Nicholas Wade about why so many scientists and journalists are now exploring theories about the origins of COVID-19 that, not so long, ago, were being dismissed as conspiracy theories.
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| Kenny Xu on Asian-Americans' Success, And Their Complicated Placement in the Progressive ‘Intersectional’ Hierarchy | 28 May 2021 | 00:25:45 | |
Host Jonathan Kay speaks with conservative activist, book author, and Quillette contributor Kenny Xu about the pressures that Asian-Americans now face to toe the line on progressive race orthodoxies—including acquiescing to their own unfavorable treatment in elite school admissions
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| Author Helen Pluckrose on the Role of Postmodernism in the Construction of Modern Social-Justice Dogmas | 25 May 2021 | 00:47:49 | |
Quillette founder Claire Lehmann speaks with “Cynical Theories” co-author (and Grievance Studies Hoax collaborator) Helen Pluckrose about the influence of postmodern ideas in the formulation of the latest iterations of Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and other “intersectional” doctrines
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| Lingnan University scholar Peter Baehr on Academic Life Within Hong Kong’s Increasingly Repressive Political Atmosphere | 14 May 2021 | 00:33:59 | |
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Hong Kong-based professor Peter Baehr about the many ways in which free speech and democratic politics are being suppressed by China’s mainland communist government,
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| A Short Message From Quillette: Here's How to Help Us Make Our Podcast Better | 12 May 2021 | 00:03:54 | |
Want to suggest a topic or guest, critique a segment, or just let us know what you think? We want to hear from you.
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| Bernard Lane on the Fight for a More Balanced Approach Toward Children and Teens Seeking Medicalized Gender Change | 10 May 2021 | 01:04:29 | |
Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to The Australian writer Bernard Lane about the severe risks associated with rushing gender dysphoric children into puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery—and the rising tide of concerned parents who are pushing back against the campaign to reflexively ‘affirm’ children’s beliefs about their inner identity.
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| Richard Hanania on the Real Reason Progressives Are Winning the Culture War: They Just Want It More | 30 Apr 2021 | 00:24:50 | |
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Richard Hanania, President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, about his much-discussed essay, “Why is Everything Liberal? Cardinal Preferences Explain Why All Institutions are Woke”
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| Michael Shellenberger on the Case for Nuclear Power, Progressive Hypocrisy on Energy Policy, and His New book, ‘Apocalypse Never’ | 23 Apr 2021 | 00:42:29 | |
Quillette founder Claire Lehmann talks to author and activist Michael Shellenberger about how environmental alarmism and ideological blind spots often prevent us from having a rational discussion about the best way to address climate change while growing national economies
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| Protest? Polite Pass | 03 Jul 2024 | 00:34:05 | |
New York Times columnist Pamela Paul tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why standing around yelling slogans isn’t her preferred way of changing the world.
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| Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’ | 18 Apr 2021 | 00:44:27 | |
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the course of the Second World War
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| James Kirchick on 'The Disintegration of the ACLU' | 09 Apr 2021 | 00:39:04 | |
Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to author James Kirchick about his recent Tablet article documenting how the American Civil Liberties Union abandoned its core mission in favor of doctrinaire progressive politics
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| Daphne Merkin on the Baseless Abuse Claims Against Woody Allen—And Why The Media Refuses to Let Them Die | 04 Apr 2021 | 00:30:46 | |
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to journalist Daphne Merkin, author of a widely discussed 2018 New York Magazine article on Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, about HBO’s highly torqued documentary, 'Allen v. Farrow,' and the dubious claims it contains.
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| Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten on Portland's Descent Into Violence—And Why They Finally Decided to Flee | 28 Mar 2021 | 00:37:25 | |
Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to two ex-Portlanders about how the COVID-19 pandemic and a year of violent protests turned their once beloved city into a fractured, downwardly mobile arena for America's culture war.
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| Psychiatrist Andrew Lustig on the Conspiracist Internet Subculture of ‘Gangstalking’ | 19 Mar 2021 | 00:34:40 | |
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks to Canadian researcher Andrew Lustig about his research on the web-based communities of individuals who believe they are surrounded by evidence of an enormous “gangstalking” conspiracy, involving dozens or even hundreds of individuals, aimed at causing them to become insane or commit suicide.
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| Evolutionary Psychologist (and Twitter Hit Man) Gad Saad on the ‘Cesspool’ in Academia, Hollywood’s Man-Children, and His New Book, ‘The Parasitic Mind’ | 13 Mar 2021 | 00:35:43 | |
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Concordia University marketing professor Gad Saad about his take-no-prisoners social-media style, Lebanese politics, and the inner ideological life of Seth Rogen
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| Andrew Doyle—The Brain Behind Titania McGrath—on His New (And Very Serious) Book, ‘Free Speech And Why It Matters’ | 09 Mar 2021 | 00:43:11 | |
Jonathan Kay interviews comedian, social critic, and book author Andrew Doyle on why he thinks government censors are a bigger threat to a free society than the bigots they’re seeking to cancel.
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| Literary Critic (and Sopranos Cameo Actor) Leon Wieseltier on His New Magazine, the Meaning of Forgiveness, and His Favorite Car-Chase Movies | 01 Mar 2021 | 00:43:32 | |
Host Jonathan Kay talks to long-time New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier about ‘Liberties,’ the ambitious literary journal he founded after getting Me-Too’d—and many other subjects besides, including the future of journalism, the innocence of Woody Allen, the allure of jazz music, and Nicolas Cage’s underrated cinematic masterpiece, 'Gone In 60 Seconds'
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| Sociologist Nathalie Heinich on French Academics' Opposition to America's Race-Based Ideologies | 22 Feb 2021 | 00:30:30 | |
Quillette's Jonathan Kay speaks to eminent French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, founder of a new organization that opposes the spread of America's race-fixated academic movements into French campuses. While many conservatives have traditionally complained about the excesses of "French theory," Prof. Heinich argues, many harmful ideas are now crossing the Atlantic in the opposite direction.
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| Social Media Network Creator Brian Amerige: If You Could Create a New Network from Scratch, What Would It Look Like? | 15 Feb 2021 | 00:38:50 | |
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerige—a former team leader at Facebook, and now the CEO of Thoughtful—about the content-moderation lessons he’s learned from established social-media giants, and how we can create something better.
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| 'Parsi Bombay Then and Now' with Nev March | 25 Jun 2024 | 01:30:40 | |
Iona Italia talks to Nev March about her novel, Murder in Old Bombay, set in late 19th-century India and about the Zoroastrians of Bombay past and present.
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| Minds.Com CEO Bill Ottman on Censorship, ‘Algorithmic Transparency,’ and the Post-Trump Social-Media Landscape | 04 Feb 2021 | 00:40:10 | |
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bill Ottman, co-founder of the Minds social-media network, about the challenges facing Silicon Valley communications giants
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| John McWhorter on the Ideological Excesses of the Social-Justice Movement | 19 Jan 2021 | 01:05:07 | |
Columbia University professor and Atlantic Magazine writer John McWhorter speaks with political satirist and TV presenter Josh Szeps about the transformation of radicalized progressive politics into a religious-style belief system
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| Cheri Jacobus on How Donald Trump Used Twitter to Destroy People’s Lives (Including Hers) | 13 Jan 2021 | 00:32:59 | |
Jonathan Kay speaks with Cheri Jacobus, a veteran Republican Party worker and conservative media figure who was mobbed and deplatformed after she called out Donald Trump for his abusive rhetoric and dubious campaign tactics
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| Philippe Lemoine on the Case for Lockdown Skepticism | 06 Jan 2021 | 00:43:13 | |
Jonathan Kay speaks to Philippe Lemoine about problematic assumptions embedded in the models used to support COVID lockdown policy. Yes, separating people helps reduce virus transmission and saves lives. But forced isolation also can generate serious (and often life-threatening) risks. Moreover, how much of the beneficial effects attributed to lockdowns are the result of disease-avoidant behaviours that most of us would engage in anyway?
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| Professor Tania Reynolds on the Controversy Over Female Mentorship in Academia | 02 Jan 2021 | 00:45:20 | |
University of New Mexico social psychologist Tania Reynolds speaks with Jonathan Kay about Nature Communications' questionable decision to retract a controversial article, the intrusion of ideology into scholarship about academic mentorship, and the principles of evolutionary biology that may affect female professional relationships
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| Toby Young on the Free Speech Union, and His Campaign Against Cancel Culture | 24 Dec 2020 | 00:44:36 | |
Jonathan Kay talks to colleague Toby Young about the fine line between journalism and activism, the politics of censorship, and his start-up year at the Free Speech Union
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| Oren Cass on the Conservative Case for Labor Unions | 17 Dec 2020 | 00:33:02 | |
As the conservative movement enters a period of post-Trump flux, American Compass CEO Oren Cass explains to Quillette's Jonathan Kay why a right-leaning coalition with organized labor now makes sense
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| Nicholas Christakis on His New Book, ‘Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound And Enduring Impact of Coronavirus On The Way We Live’ | 10 Dec 2020 | 00:31:52 | |
Yale Sociologist and Physician Nicholas Christakis speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the origins of COVID-19, how it compares to Bubonic plague and Spanish Flu, and the way it will shape the future of our societies
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| Historian Benny Morris on the Turks’ Forgotten 19th-Century Genocide of Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian Christians | 08 Dec 2020 | 00:35:54 | |
Jonathan Kay speaks to famed Middle Eastern historian Benny Morris, whose latest book explores the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire
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| Abigail Shrier on Her New Book About Peer Contagion and Gender Dysphoria | 06 Dec 2020 | 00:22:12 | |
Jonathan Kay speaks to Wall Street Journal contributor Abigail Shrier about the epidemic of teenage girls seeking gender reassignment, the backlash against her book—and the backlash against the backlash
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| Justin Trudeau’s Ominous Online Harms Act: ‘Minority Report’ Comes to Canada | 14 Jun 2024 | 00:19:24 | |
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.
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| Yale School of Public Health Professor David Paltiel on Computer Modelling COVID-19 Vaccination Programs | 28 Nov 2020 | 00:26:00 | |
Jonathan Kay speaks to public health expert David Paltiel about how mass vaccination could help end the COVID-19 pandemic
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| Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’ | 23 Nov 2020 | 00:31:59 | |
Author Shelby Steele speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about white guilt, the ‘poetic truth’ of Ferguson, the dead end of racial grievances, and the creative process of working with his son Eli
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| Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras | 20 Nov 2020 | 00:33:38 | |
Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB and T, and the new journalistic climate that he expects will emerge under Joe Biden.
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| Jeffrey Flier, Former Dean of Harvard Medical School, on This Week’s Good News About the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine | 14 Nov 2020 | 00:31:38 | |
Jeffrey Flier—physician, endocrinologist, researcher, and 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University—speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Pfizer’s recent announcement that its candidate COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be more than 90% effective in preliminary testing
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| Jamil Jivani on the Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters | 06 Nov 2020 | 00:36:18 | |
While Trump’s hopes of a second Presidential term seem to be vanishing, his surprisingly strong showing among Black, Hispanic, Muslim, and Asian voters is challenging the progressive claim that Trump's appeal is rooted primarily in racism. Quillette’s Jonathan Kay discusses these surprising election results with author and journalist Jamil Jivani.
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| Jodi Shaw on a Climate of Fear at Smith College, Following Unproven Racism Accusations | 03 Nov 2020 | 00:45:00 | |
A whistleblower at an elite Massachusetts women’s college talks to Jonathan Kay about how a single 2018 incident on campus unleashed public-shaming measures that targeted the school’s lowest-paid workers—all in the name of social justice
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| Cult Expert and Deprogrammer Rick Ross on NXIVM, Founder Keith Raniere, And the Many Tactics Cults Use to Exploit the Unwary | 26 Oct 2020 | 00:42:37 | |
Rick Ross, executive director of the Cult Education Institute, speaks with Jonathan Kay about infamous cult leader (and now convicted felon) Keith Raniere, who spent 14 years suing Ross for telling the truth about NXIVM
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| Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about intellectual conformity, being a lockdown sceptic and her new book | 26 Oct 2020 | 00:40:17 | |
Literary superstar Lionel Shriver shares her thoughts about the pandemic, the rush to embrace Covid orthodoxy by politicians and scientists and the suppression of dissenting voices by big tech and the mainstream media, including hers
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| Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into Social-Justice Extremism—And How She Escaped | 20 Oct 2020 | 00:32:23 | |
Jonathan Kay speaks with Stanford University student and autism activist Lucy Kross Wallace about her former life as a militant social-justice activist—and what she learned about a movement that she now describes as a “cult.”
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| Asra Nomani on the Collateral Damage Inflicted on Asian-American Students by Critical Race Theorists | 16 Oct 2020 | 00:30:37 | |
Jonathan Kay talks to writer Asra Nomani about the campaign to end race-neutral admissions testing at Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, America’s best public high school—and the disturbing attacks on Asian academic “culture” that have accompanied it
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| Supporting Trans People Without Denying the Facts of Biology | 10 Jun 2024 | 00:40:24 | |
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: A Commonsense Approach.
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| Stuart Buck on How COVID-19 Has Exposed the Shortfalls of Scientific Peer Review | 10 Oct 2020 | 00:24:01 | |
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to Stuart Buck about how the rapid pace of COVID-19 science has exposed longstanding problems with the methods we use to validate scientific research
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| Cellist Daniel Lelchuk on How Beethoven’s Genius Flourished in Napoleon’s World | 03 Oct 2020 | 00:30:05 | |
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to concert cellist Daniel Lelchuk about the timeless, global appeal of Beethoven—and the turbulent historical world that inspired the great German composer’s works.
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| Economist Jeff Rubin on the Plight of Today’s Middle-Class ‘Expendables’ | 25 Sep 2020 | 00:30:20 | |
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to economist-turned-author Jeff Rubin about his new book, The Expendables How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization—and the devastating consequences of globalization that many progressive thinkers seem reluctant to talk about.
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