The Case Against Lockdown: A Reply to Christopher Snowdon No doubt the pandemic would have had a negative impact on the global economy ceteris paribus, but it has surely been exacerbated by the lockdowns. Toby Young 5 Feb 2021 · 8 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
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 90: John Lloyd on the Geopolitical Fall-Out From the Coronavirus Crisis John Lloyd, co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, talks to Toby Young about the geopolitical fall-out from the coronavirus crisis. Will the Conservatives win the next UK election? Can the EU recover its authority? And is this China’s Chernobyl? John recently wrote about Toby Young 14 May 2020 · 1 min read
PODCAST 86: Dr Michael Shermer on His New Book Giving the Devil His Due Science writer, author and Skeptic editor-in-chief Michael Shermer talks to Toby Young about his new book Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist. They talk about a range of free speech issues, including hate speech, Holocaust denial, the Pentagon Papers and Wikileaks. Quillette / Michael Shermer / Toby Young 9 Apr 2020 · 1 min read
PODCAST 83: Professor Wilfred Reilly on his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About Kentucky State political science professor Wilfred Reilly talks to Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About. Professor Reilly’s last piece for Quillette was about the 1776 project. Quillette / Wilfred Reilly / Toby Young 27 Mar 2020 · 1 min read
PODCAST 82: Matt Ridley talks about the Coronavirus Pandemic and His New Book How Innovation Works Science writer Matt Ridley talks to Toby Young about coronavirus, the prospects of finding a vaccine within the next 18 months, and his new book How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy, and the Saving of Time. He recently wrote for Quillette about GM crops. Quillette / Matt Ridley / Toby Young 17 Mar 2020 · 1 min read
PODCAST 73: George Orwell's biographer on the 70th anniversary of his death Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. You can read Richard’s recent piece about how Orwell anticipated both Brexit and Boris Johnson’s election victory in Quillette / Toby Young 20 Jan 2020 · 1 min read
PODCAST 71: Daniel Hannan talks about the late Sir Roger Scruton Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, talks to Toby Young about his lifelong friendship with the late Conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton. Quillette / Toby Young 13 Jan 2020 · 1 min read
PODCAST 67: Toby Young on Boris Johnson's Victory in the UK General Election Toby Young talks to Jonathan Kay about the Conservatives’ victory in the UK General Election in which Labour suffered its worst defeat since 1935. Toby wrote about the election recently in Quillette. Quillette / Toby Young / Jonathan Kay 14 Dec 2019 · 1 min read
Britain's Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It's Broke Another, related phenomenon that’s been overlooked is that these “topsy turvey” politics are hardly unique to Britain. Left-of-center parties in most parts of the Anglosphere, as well as other Western democracies, have seen the equivalent of their own ‘Red Walls’ collapsing. Toby Young 13 Dec 2019 · 11 min read
PODCAST 48: Professor Bruce Gilley on Anti-Conservative Bias on Campus Toby Young talks to Bruce Gilley, professor of political science at Portland State, about not being able to get his course on conservative political thought approved by his faculty, and his efforts to fight back against progressive authoritarianism on campus. He recently published a piece in Quillette about why he Quillette / Toby Young 7 Aug 2019 · 1 min read
Why I Want to Start a Free Speech Trade Union NATO provided an institutional framework that enabled the signatories of the treaty to respond collectively, thereby pooling the risk. Toby Young 1 Aug 2019 · 18 min read
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson The next three months, between now and October 31st, will reveal whether that was a historical premonition or a sophomoric illusion. Toby Young 23 Jul 2019 · 20 min read
Quillette Podcast 38 – Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Siberium on the conservative themes of Avengers: Endgame Toby Young discusses the conservative manifesto buried just beneath the surface of Avengers: Endgame with Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Siberium. Aaron wrote an essay recently about the final instalment of the Avengers saga for Quillette. Quillette / Toby Young 19 Jun 2019 · 1 min read
