Quillette Podcast
Quillette
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.
Episodes
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Sep 21, 2019 • 29min
New York Times editor Bari Weiss talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about How to Fight Anti-Semitism
New York Times editor and opinion writer Bari Weiss talks to Jonathan Kay about How to Fight Anti-Semitism, her new book on the rise in anti-Semitism in the U.S. on the Left and the Right and what we can do to combat it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 15, 2019 • 18min
Gay rights activist Shane Windmeyer talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the Chick-fil-A protests in Toronto
Gay rights activist Shane Windmeyer talks to Jonathan Kay about his changing attitude to Chick-fil-A, which recently opened its first outlet in Toronto. As the founder of Campus Pride, a nationwide LGBT student activist group, Windmeyer was originally a sworn enemy of Chick-fil-A because the company has donated to groups opposed to same-sex marriage. But Dan Cathy, the son of Chick-fil-A's founder and the company's COO, reached out to Windmeyer in 2012 and the two have since become friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 4, 2019 • 53min
Professor Anthony Kronman talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about America's higher education crisis
Yale Law School professor Anthony Kronman talks to Jonathan Kay about his new book The Assault on American Excellence in which he laments the decline of aristocratic values in America's elite universities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 30, 2019 • 56min
Carl Gardner talks to Quillette's Toby Young about Britain's constitutional crisis
Carl Gardner, a former government lawyer, talks to Toby Young about Boris Johnson's decision to prorogue parliament, whether it's constitutionally legitimate, and what the political ramifications are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 23, 2019 • 30min
Professor Nadim Kobeissi talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the dangers posed by Facebook's new cryptocurrency
Nadim Kobeissi, a professor at NYU and director of a cryptography consulting firm, tells Jonathan Kay about the risks posed by Libra, Facebook's new cryptocurrency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 14, 2019 • 35min
Peter Boghossian, the Portland State philosophy professor, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to about his forthcoming book
Portland State philosophy professor Peter Boghossian talks to Jonathan Kay about his forthcoming book—How to Have Impossible Conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 7, 2019 • 29min
Professor Bruce Gilley talks to Quillette's Toby Young about anti-conservative bias in America's universities
Bruce Gilley, professor of political science at Portland State, talks to Toby Young about not being able to get his course on conservative political thought approved by his faculty, and his efforts to fight back against progressive authoritarianism on campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 31, 2019 • 21min
Heterodox Academy 2019 conference highlights presented by Quillette's Jonathan Kay
Heterodox Academy 2019 conference highlights presented by Jonathan Kay, featuring Steven Pinker, Karith Foster, Jennifer Collins Bloomquist, Dan Mogulof, Lara Schwartz, Brandon Calhoun and Coleman Hughes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 25, 2019 • 34min
Toby Young talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Boris Johnson, Britain's new Prime Minister whom he's known for 36 years
Toby Young, Quillette's associate editor, talks to Jonathan Kay about Boris Johnson, Britain's new Prime Minister whom Toby first met 36 years ago when they were students together at Oxford. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 16, 2019 • 30min
Nancy Rommelmann talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how Portland became the woke capital of America
Journalist and YouTuber Nancy Rommelmann talks to Jonathan Kay about how Portland became the most woke city in America, what it's like living there, and why she's moving. She provides an update on the targeting of her husband's coffee shop by an outrage mob after she expressed some reservations about aspects of the #MeToo movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
