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Quillette Podcast

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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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Episodes

Author and Journalist David Frum talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about His New Book Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy 04.06.2020 43:12

Former Bush speech writer David From talks to Jonathan Kay about the damage done by the Trump presidency and the way forward for America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Journalist Cathy Young talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her investigations into Tara Reade’s accusations against Joe Biden 29.05.2020 43:35

Writer and Journalist Cathy Young talks to Jonathan Kay about her investigations into Tara Reade’s evolving accusations against Joe Biden, and explains why the ranks of Reade’s supporters are shrinking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thomas Hale of Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about a new research project aimed at comparing international policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic 19.05.2020 23:43

Thomas Hale, Associate Professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, talks to Jonathan Kay about a new research project aimed at comparing international policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Financial Times journalist John Lloyd talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the geopolitical fall-out From the coronavirus crisis 14.05.2020 40:46

John Lloyd, co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, talks to Toby Young about the geopolitical fall-out from the coronavirus crisis. Will the Conservatives win the next UK election? Can the EU recover its authority? And is this China's Chernobyl? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JAMA associate managing news editor Jennifer Abbasi talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about new COVID-19 antibody tests 30.04.2020 25:57

Jennifer Abbasi, associate managing editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), talks to Jonathan Kay about new COVID-19 antibody tests that may help stop the pandemic and save the lives of those who are already infected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quillette editors Jonathan Kay and Toby Young talk about Jonathan's article about coronavirus superspreaders 29.04.2020 25:21

Jonathan Kay, Canadian editor of Quillette, talks to associate editor Toby Young about his recent article on COVID-19 superspreaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawyer and sex worker Nadia Guo talks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about how the COVID-19 pandemic is devastating the sex trade 21.04.2020 21:29

Nadia Guo, a sex worker and lawyer, talks to Jonathan Kay about the devastating impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the sex trade—although it's been great for the webcam business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr Michael Shermer talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book Giving the Devil His Due 09.04.2020 48:03

Science writer, author and Skeptic editor-in-chief Michael Shermer talks to Toby Young about his new book Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist. They talk about a range of free speech issues, including hate speech, Holocaust denial, the Pentagon Papers and Wikileaks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr Jemma Geoghegan, a virologist at the University of Otago, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how viruses evolve 07.04.2020 28:24

Dr Jemma Geoghegan, a virologist at the University of Otago, talks to Jonathan Kay on how viruses evolve and the lessons we can learn about social distancing from fish, dogs and rabbits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about treating COVID-19 01.04.2020 46:33

Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Jonathan Kay about COVID-19, the triage decisions he's having to make and what we've learnt from China about how best to treat it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor Wilfred Reilly talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About 27.03.2020 28:21

Kentucky State political science professor Wildred Reilly talks to Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About, as well as the "1776" project, which he's a contributor to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Ridley talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book How Innovation Works 17.03.2020 33:51

Science writer Matt Ridley talks to Toby Young about coronavirus, the prospects of finding a vaccine within the next 18 months, and his new book How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy, and the Saving of Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andy Lamey talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the conservative case for vegetarianism 14.03.2020 42:11

Andy Lamey, author of Duty and the Beast, explains why conservatives are starting to care about animal rights, not just liberals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bo Winegard talks to Quillette's Toby Young about losing his job as an assistant professor at Marietta College 05.03.2020 49:59

Bo Winegard, long-standing Quillette contributor, has lost his job as an assistant professor at Marietta College. No reason was given, but he believes it's because his research interests included the genetic influence on psychological differences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coleman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why he helped to create the "1776" project 29.02.2020 36:02

Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes on why he and some other prominent black intellectuals have created the "1776" project, a response to the New York Times's 1619 Project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The late Christie Blatchford, award-winning Canadian journalist, on the importance of due process 19.02.2020 30:03

The late Canadian journalist Christie Blatchford gave a speech last year about the importance of due process and the dangers of the #MeToo moral panic. These are the edited highlights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yoram Hazony talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the controversy surrounding his national conservatism conference in Rome 14.02.2020 36:05

Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony talks to Toby Young about the national conservatism conference in Rome and why British Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski should not have been reprimanded by his party for attending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Solano talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the coming corporatization of Mars 09.02.2020 24:21

Venture capitalist Michael Solana talks to Jonathan Kay about interstellar corporatocracy—and why we should welcome it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles Murray talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book Human Diversity 28.01.2020 37:29

Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve, talks to Toby Young about his new book Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The makers of The Rise of Jordan Peterson talk to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about their controversial documentary 24.01.2020 55:39

Patricia Marcoccia and Maziar Ghaderi of Holding Space Films talk to Jonathan kay about the time they spent chronicling the daily life of Canada’s most famous public intellectual—and how critics on both sides reacted to The Rise of Jordan Peterson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Orwell's biographer Richard Bradford talks to Quillette's Toby Young on the 70th anniversary of Orwell's death 20.01.2020 31:17

Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedy director and producer Paul Provenza talks to guest host Jamie Kilstein about Ricky Gervais and cancel culture 18.01.2020 27:46

Stand-up comedian and guest host Jamie Kilstein talks to comedy impresario Paul Provenza about Ricky Gervais's monologue at the Golden Globes and whether comedy is finally emerging from under a cloud of woke humourlessness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conservative politician Daniel Hannan talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the late Sir Roger Scruton 13.01.2020 37:20

Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, talks to Toby Young about his lifelong friendship with the late Conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harvard history professor James Hankins talks to guest host Alexandra Hudson about his new book on Renaissance Italy 09.01.2020 39:48

Harvard Historian James Hankins on what the great Renaissance humanists can teach us about virtue and statecraft. Plus: Why so many get Machiavelli wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forensic psychologist Armando Simón talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why we shouldn't put a man on Mars 04.01.2020 19:35

Armando Simón, forensic psychologist and science writer, talks to Jonathan Kay about why it would be a mistake to try and put a man on Mars. Simón recently set out the case against a manned space flight to Mars in Quillette. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices