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Podcast #214: Bastardizing Beethoven, Mangling Mozart

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Heather Mac Donald, whose newly published book argues that western civilization’s cultural treasures are being debased in the name of racial equity.

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19 May 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #213: Meghan Murphy on Sex, Feminism, Sports, Fast Food, The Walking Dead, Mexico, and Some Like It Hot

The Same Drugs podcaster Meghan Murphy and Quillette’s Jonathan Kay explore how COVID, gender bending, and progressive politics have combined to shape a new kind of social tribe.

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7 May 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #212: Kellie-Jay Keen on Protecting Women, and Facing Down Aggressive Gender-Rights Mobs

The British activist once known as Posie Parker talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the assault she endured in New Zealand, why she doesn’t call herself a feminist, and the dangers of the “full-on cult” that has mobilized against her.

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21 Apr 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #211: Youth Gender Dysphoria and Social Contagion: Exploring the Latest Research

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Northwestern University psychology professor J. Michael Bailey, co-author of the newly published academic article, Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1,655 Possible Cases. Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases - Archives of Sexual BehaviorDuring the past decade

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4 Apr 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #210: Keeping Biological Males Out of Women’s Swimming

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to NCAA backstroke champion-turned-activist Marshi Smith about her years in the pool, the Lia Thomas controversy, and Smith’s campaign to protect the integrity of female sport.

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29 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #209: In Defence of the British Empire

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar, author of a newly published, best-selling book that examines the mixed legacy of British colonial rule.

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12 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #208: Fair Play for Female Athletes—Then and Now

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to former U.S. Olympic team rower Mary O’Connor about her 1970s-era fight against sports sexism—and today’s battle to keep male bodies out of women’s rowing.

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27 Feb 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #207: The Fight to Provide Gender Dysphoric Children with Holistic Therapy Instead of Instant ‘Affirmation’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with James Esses, an aspiring British therapist who was expelled from his training institute for voicing concerns about ideologically programmed restrictions on the care of trans-identified youth.

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9 Feb 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #206: Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard: The Definitive Postmortem from an Unlikely Expert

Podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to literary journalist Charlotte Allen about her self-confessed “secret appetite” for trashy Hollywood stories—and her exhaustive Quillette story about Johnny Depp’s successful defamation suit against his ex-wife.

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21 Jan 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #205: From Golden Girls Super-fan to Right-Wing Culture Warrior: The Strange Journey of Dave Rubin

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Ross Anderson about the Rubin Report’s increasingly conservative (and angry) star host. Anderson’s Quillette profile of Rubin was published last month under the title, All About Dave. "Unfortunately, Rubin, like most of us, is slow to acknowledge the unreliability of

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3 Jan 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #204: Discovering Your Inner ‘Demisexual’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield of Feminine Chaos, about why young straight women are inventing new (and dubious) queer subcategories. Links discussed in this episode: Feminine Chaos: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Demisexual Feminine Chaos: Your Privilege Is Showing,

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15 Dec 2022 · 1 min read

Podcast #203: A Marriage Lost to Gender Identity

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to author Shannon Thrace—whose 16-year marriage fell apart after her newly transitioned husband became immersed in the ideologically uncompromising world of online transgender activism.

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5 Dec 2022 · 1 min read

Podcast #202: How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the Guggenheim Museum’s Top Curator

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer Helen Lewis about the fate of Nancy Spector, who lost her job at the pinnacle of the Manhattan art world amidst a flurry of unsubstantiated accusations by independent scholar Chaédria LaBouvier. In America, the summer of 2020 was revolutionary: noble goals

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22 Nov 2022 · 1 min read

Podcast #201: Sahar Tartak on Fighting Back Against Coerced ‘Anti-Racist’ Indoctrination in American Education

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale undergraduate student Sahar Tartak, who led a successful revolt against the ultra-progressive administration of her Long Island public high school.

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5 Nov 2022 · 1 min read

Podcast #200: Jonathan Kay on the State of Journalism, the Perils of Audience Capture, and the Art of Podcasting

For our 200th episode, Quillette founder Claire Lehmann interviews host Jonathan Kay about the evolution of his journalistic career before and after joining Quillette.

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23 Oct 2022 · 1 min read