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Podcast #223: Tracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (Formerly) Known as Wokeness

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Identity Trap author Yascha Mounk about the role of Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in shaping today’s illiberal, identity-fixated political mantras—and how we can help lead progressives back to their liberal roots.

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14 Sep 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #222: Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl

A cautionary tale of what can happen when you mess with a child's gender identity.

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12 Sep 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #221: Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious Movements

Indian-Canadian podcast host Kushal Mehra interviews Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the radicalized beliefs and unsettling rituals that now characterize performative progressive politics in Canada and the rest of the Western world.

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2 Sep 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #220: Talking Science and Substacking in ‘Nash Vegas’

Host Jonathan Kay shares a Nashville breakfast with journalist Christina Buttons and her Quillette-alumnus boyfriend, Colin Wright, author of the popular Substack, Reality’s Last Stand.

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23 Aug 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #219: When DEI ‘Training’ Becomes Harassment—A Tragic Canadian Case Study

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with municipal politician Bill Dennis about diversity consultant Kike Ojo-Thompson, whose training methods became infamous following the recent suicide of Toronto educator Richard Bilkszto (1963-2023). RIP, Richard Bilkszto, a Toronto Educator Who Stood up to Woke Bullying—and Paid the PriceTwo years after being

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8 Aug 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast # 218: McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic

Lawrence Krauss, host of The Origins Podcast, interviews Jonathan Kay about his Quillette investigation into the spread of false rape allegations on a Canadian university campus in 2020—and the lessons that can be learned.

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9 Jul 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #217: Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to acclaimed historian Orlando Figes, whose new book traces Russia’s political dysfunction back to the age of Byzantium and the Mongol invasion. This podcast is also available on YouTube.

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3 Jul 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #216: Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist

Iona Italia speaks with Henry Rambow, whose Hate No More podcast tells the story of “Casper,” a one-time leader of the State Prison Skinheads.

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24 Jun 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #215: Who is the Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Industry Actually Helping?

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf about his recent article, The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege.

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9 Jun 2023 · 1 min read

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