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Quillette Podcast 16 – Matthew Goodwin on Brexit, Trump and the rise of national populism
Listen onSpotify Quillette‘s Toby Young talks to Matthew Goodwin, professor of politics at the University of Kent and co-author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberalism, about Brexit, Trump, the rise of national populism in Europe and America, and what its impact is likely to be on the
Quillette Podcast 15 – Michael Shermer on Holocaust denialism, Social Justice Warriors and how to debunk toxic ideologies
Listen onSpotify Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Skeptic editor Michael Shermer about Holocaust denialism, Social Justice Warriors, the importance of bringing reason and science to bear on political debates, and why it is that smart people believe dumb things.
Quillette Podcast 14 – Kat Rosenfield on the mobbing of Amélie Wen Zhao
Listen onSpotify Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Kat Rosenfield, young-adult author and prolific vlogger and journalist, about Amélie Wen Zhao, a YA writer who’s withdrawn her debut novel Blood Heir after being mobbed for allegedly breaching various politically correct protocols that all YA authors, including people of
Quillette Podcast 13 – Bill Kristol on the future of journalism, conservative politics and life after the Weekly Standard
Listen onSpotify Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Bill Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard, on the future of journalism, conservative politics, and the stars who emerged from his magazine’s pages, including David Brooks, John Podhoretz, and Christopher Caldwell.
Quillette Podcast 12 - Speeches by Claire Lehmann, Jamie Kilstein, Michael Shermer, Jonathan Kay, Christina Hoff Sommers and Toby Young
Listen onSpotify Listen to highlights from the speeches made at Quillette‘s party in Toronto by Quillette founder Claire Lehmann, stand-up comic Jamie Kilstein, Skeptic editor Michael Shermer, Quillette‘s Canadian editor Jonathan Kay, author and philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers and Quillette‘s associate editor Toby Young. Thanks to
Quillette Podcast 11 - Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker explains why the critics of Enlightenment Now are wrong
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Jesse Singal talks about the reaction to his controversial Atlantic story on transgender adolescents
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Quillette Podcast 9 - Professor Jeff McMahan talks about co-founding the Journal of Controversial Ideas
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Quillette Podcast 8 — Trans Software Developer Corinna Cohn on Trans Orthodoxies
Listen onSpotify Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Corinna Cohn, a trans woman and Indianapolis-based software developer who disagrees with Twitter’s policy of banning users who “deadname” trans people and, more generally, doesn’t believe she is obliged to support the causes associated with the Social Justice movement
Quillette Podcast 7 — Jonathan Church on White Privilege and Unconscious Bias
Listen onSpotify Associate editor Toby Young talks to Jonathan Church, Quillette contributor and economist, about ‘white privilege,’ ‘white fragility,’ ‘color-blind racism,’ ‘unconscious bias,’ ‘micro-aggressions’ and why the Social Justice Left is more interested in punishing whites than understanding the complexity of racial inequality.
Quillette Podcast 6 — Coleman Hughes on Progressive Orthodoxy in the Ivy League
Listen onSpotify Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Coleman Hughes, Quillette columnist and Columbia University student, about being out of step with the prevailing orthodoxy at an Ivy League college, classical liberalism and playing in Rihanna’s backup band in 2016.
Quillette Podcast 5 — Heather Mac Donald on the Free Speech Crisis in the Academy
Listen onSpotify Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Heather Mac Donald, a Fellow of the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of several books, most recently The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture. Among other topics, they
Quillette Podcast 4 — Meghan Murphy on Why Twitter Was Wrong to Ban Her
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Quillette Podcast 3 — Eric Kaufmann and Ben Cobley on Social Justice Ideology
Listen onSpotify Associate editor Toby Young talks to Dr. Eric Kaufmann, a politics professor at Birkbeck College and the author of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities, and Ben Cobley, author of The Tribe: The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity. Eric Kaufmann recently wrote a