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America Has Serious Problems. It’s Time to Stop Blaming Them on ‘Trumpism’

It is always tempting to portray one’s political opponents as consumed by some inveterate flaw or social contaminant that marks them as fallen creatures.

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9 Nov 2020 · 10 min read

Podcast #121: The Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters

A conversation with Jamil Jivani.

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6 Nov 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 120: Jodi Shaw on a Climate of Fear at Smith College, Following Unproven Racism Accusations

A whistleblower at an elite Massachusetts women’s college talks to Jonathan Kay about how a single 2018 incident on campus unleashed public-shaming measures that targeted the school’s lowest paid workers—all in the name of social justice

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3 Nov 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 119: Cult expert and deprogrammer Rick Ross on NXIVM, founder Keith Raniere, and the many tactics cults use to exploit the unwary

Rick Ross, executive director of the nonprofit Cult Education Institute, speaks with Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about infamous cult leader (and now convicted felon) Keith Raniere, who spent 14 years suing Ross for telling the truth about NXIVM.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

26 Oct 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 118: Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about intellectual conformity, being a lockdown sceptic, and her new book

Literary superstar Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about the pandemic, the rush to embrace Covid orthodoxy by politicians and scientists, and the suppression of dissenting voices by big tech and the mainstream media, including hers.

Quillette / Toby Young

26 Oct 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 117: Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into (and Escape From) Social-Justice Extremism

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20 Oct 2020 · 1 min read

Slack Wars: Corporate America’s Woke Insurgency

Labor leaders no longer even pretend they can staunch the layoffs, and so their focus increasingly has turned to questions of editorial direction and ideology, over which they still believe they can exert leverage through the back door of social media.

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16 Oct 2020 · 10 min read

PODCAST 116: Asra Nomani on the Damage Inflicted on Asian-American Students by Critical Race Theory

Jonathan Kay talks to writer Asra Nomani about the campaign to end race-neutral admissions testing at Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, America’s best public high school—and the disturbing attacks on Asian academic “culture” that have come with it

Quillette / Asra Q. Nomani

16 Oct 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 115: Stuart Buck on How COVID-19 Has Exposed the Shortfalls of Scientific Peer Review

Jonathan Kay talks to scientific transparency advocate Stuart Buck about how the rapid pace of COVID-19 science has exposed longstanding problems with the methods we use to validate scientific research

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10 Oct 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 114: Cellist Daniel Lelchuk on How Beethoven’s Genius Flourished in Napoleon’s World

Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to concert cellist Daniel Lelchuk about the timeless, global appeal of Beethoven—and the turbulent historical world that inspired the great German composer’s works.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Daniel Lelchuk

3 Oct 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 113: Jeff Rubin on the Plight of Today’s Middle-Class ‘Expendables’

Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to economist-turned-author Jeff Rubin about his new book, The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization—and the devastating consequences of globalization that many progressive thinkers seem reluctant to talk about.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Jeff Rubin

25 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 112: Sex Neuroscientist Debra Soh on Her New Book, The End of Gender

Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to scientist and author Dr Debra Soh about the misinformation being peddled to young people about biological sex and transition—and the most humane ways to help people who experience gender dysphoria. Debra has just published The End of Gender.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Debra Soh

19 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 111: Suzi Jamil on Think Inc, Heterodox Thinking, and Australia’s Flourishing Intellectual Marketplace

Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Think Inc Founder Suzi Jamil about the rewards and challenges of bringing the world’s greatest thinkers to Sydney—and their new collaboration, Free Thought Live. You can reserve a spot at their first joint event on September 26th—in which the political satirist

Quillette / Claire Lehmann

15 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 110: Psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed on His New Book In Defence of Shame

Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Dr. Tanveer Ahmed about how we should accept the presence of shame in our lives without succumbing to despair or outrage mobs.

Quillette / Tanveer Ahmed

11 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 109: Substack Founder Chris Best on How the Humble Email Newsletter is Saving Journalism

Tech entrepreneur Chris Best talks about Substack, his self-publishing platform that is attracting journalists like Andrew Sullivan, Jesse Singal and Jen Gerson.

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6 Sep 2020 · 1 min read