
Quillette Narrated
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
Latest episodes

Mar 13, 2025 • 21min
Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist
The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.

Mar 13, 2025 • 33min
Peter Beinart's Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Susie Lindfield
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.

Feb 20, 2025 • 12min
Israel–Gaza: A War Between Cousins by John Aziz
Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.

Feb 19, 2025 • 34min
Demystifying Critical Race Theory by Josh Yuter
Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.

Feb 18, 2025 • 1h 18min
Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution by Thomas F. Powers
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.

Feb 18, 2025 • 25min
Universities Are Worth Saving by Jonathan Rauch
Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.

Feb 17, 2025 • 18min
'The Language of Sex' by Marilyn Simon
While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated.

Feb 14, 2025 • 6min
'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.

Feb 11, 2025 • 9min
Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future by Razib Khan
Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.

Feb 11, 2025 • 10min
The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter by Razib Khan
The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.