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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

Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It's Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly

In American First-Amendment jurisprudence, Brandenburg’s name is now a byword for the test that is used in assessing the validity of laws against inflammatory speech—especially speech that can lead to the sort of hateful mob activity that played out at the US Capitol last Wednesday.

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11 Jan 2021 · 11 min read

PODCAST 132: Philippe Lemoine on the Case for Lockdown Skepticism

Jonathan Kay speaks to Philippe Lemoine about problematic assumptions embedded in the models used to support COVID lockdown policy. Yes, separating people helps reduce virus transmission and saves lives. But forced isolation also can generate serious (and often life-threatening) risks. Moreover, how much of the beneficial effects attributed to lockdowns

Quillette / Philippe Lemoine

6 Jan 2021 · 1 min read

PODCAST 131: Professor Tania Reynolds on the Controversy Over Female Mentorship in Academia

University of New Mexico social psychologist Tania Reynolds speaks with Jonathan Kay about Nature Communications‘ questionable decision to retract a controversial article, the intrusion of ideology into scholarship about academic mentorship, and the principles of evolutionary biology that may affect female professional relationships. Prof. Reynolds originally wrote about this issue

Quillette / Tania Reynolds

2 Jan 2021 · 1 min read

PODCAST 130: Toby Young on the Free Speech Union, and His Campaign Against Cancel Culture

Jonathan Kay talks to colleague Toby Young about the fine line between journalism and activism, the politics of censorship, and his start-up year at the Free Speech Union

Quillette / Toby Young

24 Dec 2020 · 1 min read

Like It Or Not, Keira Bell Has Opened Up a Real Conversation About Gender Dysphoria

In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.

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18 Dec 2020 · 9 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

PODCAST 128: Nicholas Christakis on ‘Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound And Enduring Impact of Coronavirus On The Way We Live’

Yale Sociologist and Physician Nicholas Christakis speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the origins of COVID-19, how it compares to Bubonic Plague and Spanish Flu, and the way it will shape the future of our societies

Quillette / Nicholas Christakis

10 Dec 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 127: Historian Benny Morris on the Forgotten 19th-Century Genocide of Turkey's Christians

Jonathan Kay speaks to famed Middle Eastern historian Benny Morris, whose latest book explores the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Transcript Jonathan Kay: Benny Morris is one of the world's most well-known historians of Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians,

Quillette / Benny Morris

8 Dec 2020 · 19 min read

PODCAST 126: Abigail Shrier on Her New Book About Peer Contagion and Gender Dysphoria

Jonathan Kay speaks to Wall Street Journal contributor Abigail Shrier about the sudden surge of teenage girls seeking gender reassignment, the backlash against her book…and the backlash against the backlash.

Quillette / Abigail Shrier

6 Dec 2020 · 1 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

PODCAST 123: Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras

Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB and T, and the new journalistic climate that he expects will emerge under Joe Biden.

Quillette / Brad Polumbo

20 Nov 2020 · 1 min read

On the Cusp of a Vaccine—and a Historic Scientific Triumph

What is unique about our time is not “the awful spectacle of men dying like sheep,” as Thucydides put it, but the success of scientists in bringing many such spectacles to an end.

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18 Nov 2020 · 11 min read

PODCAST 122: Former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier, on This Week’s Good News About the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Jeffrey Flier—physician, endocrinologist, researcher, and 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University—speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Pfizer’s recent announcement that its candidate COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be more than 90% effective in preliminary testing.

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14 Nov 2020 · 1 min read