The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views. Jonathan Kay 18 Mar 2021 · 13 min read
Podcast 140: Evolutionary Psychologist (and Twitter Hit Man) Gad Saad on the ‘Cesspool’ in Academia, Hollywood’s Man-Children, and His New Book Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Concordia University marketing professor Gad Saad about his take-no-prisoners social-media style, Lebanese politics, and the inner ideological life of Seth Rogen. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 13 Mar 2021 · 1 min read
How a Single Anonymous Twitter Account Caused an ‘Indigenized’ Canadian University to Unravel The main beneficiaries are more likely to be privileged administrators who burnish their bona fides by filling alumni magazines and email blasts with Indigenous photo-ops. Jonathan Kay 6 Mar 2021 · 17 min read
Podcast 138: Literary Critic Leon Wieseltier on His New Magazine, the Meaning of Forgiveness, and His Favorite Car-Chase Movies Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to long-time New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier about Liberties, the ambitious literary journal he founded after getting Me-Too’d—and many other subjects besides, including the future of journalism, the innocence of Woody Allen, the allure of jazz music, and Nicolas Cage’s underrated Quillette / Jonathan Kay 1 Mar 2021 · 1 min read
The Podcaster Who (Single-handledly) Made Me Love History A huge part of Duncan’s appeal is his humble, layman’s approach. Jonathan Kay 1 Mar 2021 · 8 min read
Podcast 137: Sociologist Nathalie Heinich on French Academics’ Opposition to America’s Race-Based Ideologies Jonathan Kay speaks to eminent French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, founder of a new organization that opposes the spread of America’s race-fixated academic movements into French campuses. While conservatives have traditionally complained about the excesses of “French theory,” Prof. Heinich argues, many harmful ideas are now crossing the Atlantic in Quillette / Jonathan Kay 22 Feb 2021 · 1 min read
PODCAST 136: Social Media Network Creator Brian Amerige: If You Could Create a New Network from Scratch, What Would It Look Like? Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerige—a former team leader at Facebook, and now the CEO of Thoughtful—about the content-moderation lessons he’s learned from established social-media giants, and how we can create something better. Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Brian Amerige 15 Feb 2021 · 1 min read
PODCAST 135: Minds.Com CEO Bill Ottman on Censorship, ‘Algorithmic Transparency,’ and the Post-Trump Social-Media Landscape Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bill Ottman, co-founder of the Minds social-media network, about the challenges facing Silicon Valley communications giants Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Bill Ottman 4 Feb 2021 · 1 min read
At One With the Disc: How the Pandemic Taught Me to Love (Real) Golf's Casual Cousin No, disc golf won’t provide you with high-impact interval training: It’s basically a wilderness stroll punctuated by a bunch of full-body throwing motions. Jonathan Kay 28 Jan 2021 · 9 min read
PODCAST 133: Cheri Jacobus on How Donald Trump Used Twitter to Destroy People’s Lives (Including Hers) Jonathan Kay speaks with Cheri Jacobus, a veteran Republican Party worker and conservative media figure who was mobbed and deplatformed after she called out Donald Trump for his abusive rhetoric and dubious campaign tactics. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 13 Jan 2021 · 1 min read
PODCAST 129: Oren Cass on the Conservative Case for Labor Unions As the conservative movement enters a period of post-Trump flux, American Compass CEO Oren Cass explains to Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay why a right-leaning coalition with organized labor now makes sense. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 17 Dec 2020 · 1 min read
Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction Not so long ago, one might have been able to count on the naturally oppositional reflexes of young adults as a counterbalance to this kind of crowdsourced social panic. Jonathan Kay 1 Dec 2020 · 24 min read
PODCAST 125: Yale School of Public Health Professor David Paltiel on Computer Modelling of COVID-19 Vaccination Programs Jonathan Kay speaks to public health expert David Paltiel about his newly published mathematical models, which show how mass vaccination could help end the COVID-19 pandemic Quillette / Jonathan Kay 28 Nov 2020 · 1 min read
PODCAST 124: Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’ Author Shelby Steele speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about white guilt, the ‘poetic truth’ of Ferguson, the dead end of racial grievances, and the creative process of working with his son Eli Quillette / Jonathan Kay 23 Nov 2020 · 1 min read
Workers vs. Wokeness at Smith College: Campus Social Justice as a Luxury Good For poor black people who live genuinely marginalized lives, and who will never set foot on a campus like Oberlin, racism is a real evil that affects their lives. Jonathan Kay 17 Nov 2020 · 17 min read
