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Podcast #175: Paul Lockhart on How Guns Transformed Western Civilization

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Wright State University professor Paul Lockhart about the enormous military and political upheavals set in motion by the adoption of gunpowder-based weapons from the 13th Century onward—including the demise of the medieval castle, the empowerment of large centralized states, and the deployment

Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Paul Lockhart

20 Dec 2021 · 2 min read

Podcast #174: Trent Colbert Turns the Tables on Yale Law School’s Kafkaesque Diversity Department

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks with second-year law student Trent Colbert, who recorded YLS Diversity Director Yaseen Eldik and Associate Dean Ellen Cosgrove as they tried to strongarm him into a public confession.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

10 Dec 2021 · 1 min read

Podcast #173: Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Growing Gulf Between Ordinary Americans and the Progressive Journalists Who Cover Them

The culture war and the fight over liberal media bias.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

28 Nov 2021 · 21 min read

Podcast #172: Nancy Segal on Lessons in Human Nature Revealed by Identical Twins

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with California State University professor Nancy Segal about her career spent studying twins, and her new book, Deliberately Divided.

Quillette / Nancy L. Segal

13 Nov 2021 · 1 min read

Podcast #171: Michael Shellenberger on How Progressive Activists Are Making American Cities Poorer, Dirtier, and More Dangerous

Author Michael Shellenberger speaks with Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his new book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities.

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9 Nov 2021 · 1 min read

Quillette's Best on Free Speech

We Must Defend Free Thought | Claire Lehmann “There is a small subset of hard-line ideologues who oppose open discourse altogether. The fact that you may not feel comfortable speaking your mind openly, and may feel afraid of serious consequences, is viewed by these people as an accomplishment.” Free Speech Matters,

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8 Nov 2021 · 4 min read

Facebook: The New Big Tobacco or A Media Moral Panic?

Social media changes the way people relate to each other whether they use it or not, and whether they use it sparingly or heavily.

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26 Oct 2021 · 20 min read

Podcast #170: Will Storr on Our Insatiable Appetite for Status

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Will Storr about his new book detailing the profound role of status-seeking in shaping human societies.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

26 Oct 2021 · 1 min read

Podcast #169: Harvard Professor Steven Pinker on Rational Thinking, the Monty Hall Problem, and the Case for Objective Truth

Enlightenment Now author Steven Pinker speaks with Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his newly published book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Quillette / Steven Pinker

18 Oct 2021 · 1 min read

Quillette's Best on Human Nature

Humans have evolved to empathize with the suffering of others, and to provide assistance so as to eliminate or compensate for that suffering.

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10 Oct 2021 · 4 min read

Podcast #168: Jonathan Haidt on Instagram’s Mental Health Emergency

Jonathan Kay speaks with Jonathan Haidt about the emotionally destructive effect of social media on many young users.

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4 Oct 2021 · 1 min read

Podcast #167: Vivek Ramaswamy on the 'Woke Smoke' Blown by Corporate America

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with 36-year-old biotech entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy about how corporate elites burnish their progressive bona fides (and distract their critics) with anti-racism slogans and hashtags—instead of taking concrete steps to address real inequalities within their organizations.

Quillette / Vivek Ramaswamy

27 Sep 2021 · 1 min read

Weekly Round Up

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24 Sep 2021 · 3 min read

Podcast #166: Josh Szeps on the Myth of Australia’s COVID ‘Concentration Camps’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews ABC presenter and podcaster Josh Szeps about Australia’s unique experience in managing the COVID pandemic—and the urban legends the country’s quarantine system has spawned among right-wing pundits on the other side of the world.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

19 Sep 2021 · 1 min read

Quillette's Best on Campus Crises

The Hysterical Campus | Heather Mac Donald "Hyperbole is part and parcel of political speech. But I would hope that there are some remaining faculty with enough of a lingering connection to reality who would realize that I and other conservatives are not a literal threat to minority students.” Workers

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18 Sep 2021 · 4 min read