

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

Jul 14, 2025 • 29min
The Teaching Problem
The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model.

Jul 11, 2025 • 13min
Conflicting Visions of Peace
Netanyahu’s Nobel Prize gesture masks serious diplomatic divisions over Iran’s nuclear programme and the future of Gaza’s devastated population.
Benny Morris

Jul 10, 2025 • 48min
Gonzo Bros
Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.

Jul 6, 2025 • 40min
Purity, Profit, and Politics
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.

Jul 4, 2025 • 32min
'Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello' by Helen Pluckrose
Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day.

Jul 4, 2025 • 56min
Intersectionality’s Cosmic Inquisitor
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back.

Jun 28, 2025 • 13min
Gentrifying the Intifada
Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism appeals to the luxury beliefs of New York’s middle classes. If his preferred policies are implemented, New Yorkers will suffer—and the poorest of them will be most impacted.

Jun 25, 2025 • 22min
A Fragile Peace: Iran-Israel Update
The Israel-Iran conflict may already be over, following the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But the future is deeply uncertain. By Benny Morris.

Jun 24, 2025 • 16min
The Two Middle Classes
The struggle between the two middle classes is not just a matter of wealth and power, but also of retaining the social basis for democracy itself.

Jun 24, 2025 • 30min
The Enlightenment’s Gravediggers
When Westerners hate the West.