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Quillette Podcast

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Oct 11, 2022 • 40min

Andrew Lawton on the Political Legacy of Canada’s 2022 ‘Freedom Convoy’

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Sep 22, 2022 • 46min

Kushal Mehra on the Explosive Growth of YouTube in India

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Indian podcaster and YouTuber Kushal Mehra about the raucous, angry, informative, and often hilarious world of Indian YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 9, 2022 • 47min

From VisiCalc to Global Cloud Computing: Lessons from a Lifelong Love Affair with Digital Technology

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to veteran Microsoft program manager, R&D coordinator, tablet-computing pioneer, and workplace visionary David Jones about the joy of spreadsheets, the art of “schedule chicken,” Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and “Clippy,” everyone’s least favourite digital office assistant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Aug 29, 2022 • 32min

When Workplace Anti-Racism Training Goes Off the Rails

Nicole Levitt tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay what happened when diversity consultants were hired to teach the mantras of social justice to staff at her Philadelphia-based non-profit organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Aug 12, 2022 • 23min

Meet the 80-Year-Old Feminist Who Got Banned From the YMCA for Protesting Male Bodies in the Women‘s Locker Room

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to Port Townsend, WA-area swimmer Julie Jaman, the octogenarian whose efforts to keep biological men out of a changing area reserved for girls and women led to accusations of transphobia, a visit with the police, multiple town-council debates, and an ongoing Twitter campaign called #LetJulieSwim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Aug 3, 2022 • 43min

Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong?

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to National Post reporter Terry Glavin about the blockbuster 2021 claim that hundreds of murdered Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves, the process by which that story began to unravel in the year that followed, and what the whole spectacle tells us about Canada’s intellectual class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 19, 2022 • 30min

Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Privileged Class

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Swedish Marxist Malcom Kyeyune, who argues that nominally progressive theories of race and gender are actually aimed at securing influence, employment, and prestige for underemployed university graduates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 6, 2022 • 36min

James Kirchick on ‘Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author James Kirchick about the closeted lives of gay men living and working in America's capital during the Cold War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 20, 2022 • 27min

Richard Dawkins on the Wonders of Flight

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about his new book on the science and mythology of life in the air—from puffins and flying squirrels to fairies and angels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 5, 2022 • 48min

‘Sex Realism’ Versus ‘Sex Denialism’: Is the Tide Finally Turning Against Gender Ideology?

Economist editor Helen Joyce, author of ‘Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality,’ explains to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why biology must trump politics when it comes to defining who is a woman and who is a man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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