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Podcast #231: Leaving MAGA

Former Trump activist Rich Logis explains why he renounced his former MAGA beliefs—and how he’s helping others exit the movement.

Quillette

28 Jan 2024 · 1 min read

Podcast #230: The Fine Line Between Denouncing ‘Settler Colonialism’ and Supporting Terrorism

Michael Powell explains how fashionable academic doctrines are being weaponized to delegitimize the existence of Israel, the United States, and other Western societies.

Quillette / Michael Powell

16 Jan 2024 · 2 min read

Podcast #229: How ‘Intersectional Feminism’ Got Hijacked by Men

Veteran activist, author, and pundit Julie Bindel talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the need to protect hard-won women’s rights from gender ideologues.

Quillette / Julie Bindel

4 Dec 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #228: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Justinian

An interview with Peter Sarris, author of ‘Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint'

Quillette

22 Nov 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #227: The October 7 Terrorist Attacks: a Historical Perspective

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to influential Israeli historian Benny Morris about Hamas’ acts of mass murder, the Israeli response, and the future of Gaza.

Quillette / Benny Morris

1 Nov 2023 · 15 min read

Podcast #226: Eric Kaufmann’s New ‘Centre for Heterodox Social Science’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with political scientist Eric Kaufmann about cancel culture, switching universities, and why academics need to have honest conversations about the down side of immigration.

Quillette / Eric Kaufmann

20 Oct 2023 · 14 min read

Podcast #225: Finding Strength Through Disability

Quillette editor and podcast host Iona Italia talks with speaker, DJ, and quadruple amputee Tom Nash about his new book, ‘Hook, Line, and Sinner.’

Quillette

20 Oct 2023 · 2 min read

Podcast #224: Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychotherapist and book author Stella O’Malley, and parent “Josie A.,” about the need to heed parents’ voices before “affirming” a child’s desire for gender-transition therapies.

Quillette

2 Oct 2023 · 1 min read

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.

Quillette

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

David Reimer's story is a cautionary tale of what can happen when you mess with a child's gender identity.

Quillette

12 Sep 2023 · 3 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.

Quillette

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.

Quillette

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

Quillette

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.

Quillette

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.

Quillette

3 Jul 2023 · 1 min read