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.
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Oct 26, 2020 • 43min
Cult Expert and Deprogrammer Rick Ross on NXIVM, Founder Keith Raniere, And the Many Tactics Cults Use to Exploit the Unwary
Rick Ross, executive director of the Cult Education Institute, speaks with Jonathan Kay about infamous cult leader (and now convicted felon) Keith Raniere, who spent 14 years suing Ross for telling the truth about NXIVM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 26, 2020 • 40min
Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about intellectual conformity, being a lockdown sceptic and her new book
Literary superstar Lionel Shriver shares her thoughts about the pandemic, the rush to embrace Covid orthodoxy by politicians and scientists and the suppression of dissenting voices by big tech and the mainstream media, including hers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 20, 2020 • 32min
Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into Social-Justice Extremism—And How She Escaped
Jonathan Kay speaks with Stanford University student and autism activist Lucy Kross Wallace about her former life as a militant social-justice activist—and what she learned about a movement that she now describes as a “cult.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 16, 2020 • 31min
Asra Nomani on the Collateral Damage Inflicted on Asian-American Students by Critical Race Theorists
Jonathan Kay talks to writer Asra Nomani about the campaign to end race-neutral admissions testing at Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, America’s best public high school—and the disturbing attacks on Asian academic “culture” that have accompanied it Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 10, 2020 • 24min
Stuart Buck on How COVID-19 Has Exposed the Shortfalls of Scientific Peer Review
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to Stuart Buck about how the rapid pace of COVID-19 science has exposed longstanding problems with the methods we use to validate scientific research Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 3, 2020 • 30min
Cellist Daniel Lelchuk on How Beethoven’s Genius Flourished in Napoleon’s World
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to concert cellist Daniel Lelchuk about the timeless, global appeal of Beethoven—and the turbulent historical world that inspired the great German composer’s works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 25, 2020 • 30min
Economist Jeff Rubin on the Plight of Today’s Middle-Class ‘Expendables’
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to economist-turned-author Jeff Rubin about his new book, The Expendables How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization—and the devastating consequences of globalization that many progressive thinkers seem reluctant to talk about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 19, 2020 • 34min
Sex Neuroscientist Debra Soh talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her new book, The End of Gender
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to scientist and author Dr Debra Soh about the misinformation being peddled to young people about biological sex and transition—and the most humane ways to help people who experience gender dysphoria. Debra has just published The End of Gender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 15, 2020 • 26min
Think Inc founder Suzi Jamil talks to Quillette's Claire Lehmann about their new collaboration – Free Thought Live
Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Think Inc Founder Suzi Jamil about the rewards and challenges of bringing the world’s greatest thinkers to Sydney—and their new collaboration, Free Thought Live. You can reserve a spot at their first joint event on September 26th—in which the political satirist and television presenter Josh Szeps interviews Professor John McWhorter—here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 10, 2020 • 36min
Psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed talks to Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann about His New Book, In Defence of Shame
Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Dr Tanveer Ahmed about how we should accept the presence of shame in our lives without succumbing to despair or outrage mobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
