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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Dec 7, 2018 • 57min
Heather Mac Donald talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her experience of being mobbed on campus
Heather Mac Donald, a Fellow of the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of several books, most recently The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture, talks to Canadian editor Jonathan. Among other topics, they discuss her run-in with Black Lives Matter, her experience of being mobbed on campus and the free speech crisis afflicting America's universities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 28, 2018 • 32min
Meghan Murphy talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being banned from Twitter for 'dead-naming'
Meghan Murphy, the founder of Feminist Current, a radical feminist blog and podcast, talks to Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. Meghan was recently banned from Twitter for 'dead-naming' and 'misgendering' trans women, activities that are now prohibited in Twitter's terms of service. She wrote about this for Quillette. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 21, 2018 • 49min
Eric Kaufmann and Ben Cobley talks to Quillette's Toby Young about white privilege, diversity and identity politics
Eric Kaufmann, a politics professor at Birkbeck College and the author of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities, and Ben Cobley, author of The Tribe: The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity, talks to associate editor Toby Young. Kaufmann recently wrote a piece for Quillette about white privilege, arguing that non-whites discriminate in favour of whites as well as whites, so declining white populations won't necessarily end white privilege, and Ben Cobley's book was recently reviewed in Quillette by Helen Dale in which she praised him for explaining "how a frankly bonkers set of beliefs has stolen the Labour Party" and for showing "the danger of viewing people as members of fixed identity groups." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 16, 2018 • 33min
Ted Hill talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how his paper on the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis was sent down the memory hole
Dr. Theodore Hill, professor emeritus of mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology, talks to Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. Hill recently wrote an article for Quillette about how a paper of his on the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis was accepted and retracted by The Mathematical Intelligencer and The New York Journal of Mathematics, following a lobbying effort by mathematicians who disapproved of his point of view. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 6, 2018 • 45min
Jordan Peterson talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the free speech crisis engulfing North American universities
Dr Jordan Peterson talks to associate editor Toby Young In Quillette's first official podcast. Among other things, they discuss The Coddling of the American Mind, Peterson's plans to set up a new university, and the baffling resilience of hard Left ideology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
