

Quillette Narrated
Quillette
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Sep 17, 2025 • 21min
Huxley, Burroughs, and the Church of Scientology
Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman.

Sep 15, 2025 • 9min
Brainrot, Not Ideology
The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth like Tyler Robinson more than ideology.

Sep 14, 2025 • 30min
Pride and Prejudice
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.

Sep 9, 2025 • 14min
Gaza and the Collapse of Truth-Seeking
The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism by Gary Geipel.

Sep 9, 2025 • 48min
Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist
In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot.

Sep 7, 2025 • 11min
Falling Fertility: A Crisis We Refuse to Face
Fertility decline is not merely a demographic curiosity—it is a structural challenge with civilisational implications. So why are people so reluctant to take it seriously?
By Andrew Glover

Sep 4, 2025 • 30min
In Defence of Absolute Truth
By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other.

Sep 2, 2025 • 12min
Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America
Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust.

Sep 2, 2025 • 29min
Fragments Against the Ruins
In his deliberately archaic new rendition of Homer’s epic, Jeffrey Duban takes a defiant stand against the modernisation of classical literature in defence of a disappearing tradition.

Sep 2, 2025 • 25min
‘Shameless Beyond the Curse of Shamelessness’
In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile.