Podcast - Quillette

Podcast #271: The Canadian Episode—Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s Travails

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape.

Quillette

8 Feb 2025 · 14 min read

Podcast #270: ‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism.

Quillette / William Deresiewicz

1 Feb 2025 · 9 min read

Podcast #269: Ancient Australians

Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to “Mungo Manic” about his extensive research into the lives of the ancient Australians.

Quillette / Mungo Manic

24 Jan 2025 · 65 min read

Podcast #268: The Power of Nuclear

Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Dutch writer Marco Visscher, author of ‘The Power of Nuclear: The Rise, Fall and Return of Our Mightiest Energy Source.’

Quillette

18 Jan 2025 · 26 min read

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Podcast #267: The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires

Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Southern California scholar William Deverell about what he calls the ‘new fire regime in the American West.’

Quillette

12 Jan 2025 · 13 min read

Podcast #266: Reading and Writing Science

Iona Italia talks to eminent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about science, literature, and genetics.

Quillette

4 Jan 2025 · 23 min read

Podcast #265: Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas?

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Crowther about seventeenth-century puritan attitudes toward yuletide debauchery—and about his acclaimed History of England podcast.

Quillette

24 Dec 2024 · 15 min read

Podcast #264: A Theory of Everyone

Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of ‘A Theory of Everyone,’ about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything.

Quillette

21 Dec 2024 · 39 min read

Podcast #263: In Defence of Julia the Elder

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Joan Smith, whose new book critically examines the 2,000-year-old propaganda campaign against imperial Rome’s leading women.

Quillette

14 Dec 2024 · 15 min read

Podcast #262: Interintellect and the Modern-Day Salon

Iona Italia talks to globetrotter and intellectual magpie Anna Gat about her modern-day salon, Interintellect.

Quillette

6 Dec 2024 · 36 min read

Podcast #261: Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay discusses recent events at the University of Western Ontario, where instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights.

Quillette

30 Nov 2024 · 2 min read

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Talking Far-Right Extremism and the Middle East with Richard Hanania: Quillette Cetera Episode 42

A colourful conversation with polemicist Richard Hanania.

Zoe Booth

29 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Podcast #260: Making Britain Great Again

Iona Italia talks to Sam Bowman about how to combat the economic stagnation and excess bureaucracy that are currently preventing the UK from reaching its full potential.

Quillette

20 Nov 2024 · 53 min read

Podcast #259: The Campaign Against ‘Settler Colonialism’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Adam Kirsch about the growing corps of academics and activists seeking to demonise ‘settler colonialists’ in North America, Australia—and especially Israel.

Quillette

14 Nov 2024 · 23 min read

Podcast #258: Canadian Bureaucracy and Its Discontents

Iona Italia talks to Nick Osmond-Jones about the impacts of some absurd DEI directives on Canadian public service.

Quillette

8 Nov 2024 · 34 min read