

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

May 27, 2025 • 25min
The Green Energy Delusion
The current approach to energy and environmental policy isn’t just unsustainable—it has put us on a collision course with reality.

May 26, 2025 • 12min
Qatar: Futuristic City, Medieval Morals
Donald Trump has an opportunity to influence the Qatari monarchy away from supporting jihad and towards promoting peace. But will he take it?

May 23, 2025 • 20min
In Defence of John Money
How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe?

May 23, 2025 • 29min
The Women Excluded from Parsi Life
The Zoroastrians of India, are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community.

May 22, 2025 • 12min
Brave New Marvel
Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner.

May 20, 2025 • 11min
Out with the Old...
Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat.

May 19, 2025 • 27min
Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
By Ellie Avishai.

May 19, 2025 • 15min
The Many Faces of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’
Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate.

May 19, 2025 • 12min
'Oikophobia': Our Western Self-Hatred
The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.

May 19, 2025 • 27min
Truth Telling and Colonial History
The colonisation of Australia was neither a "peaceful settlement" nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists.