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
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
Podcast #257: How Universities Should Regulate Contentious Speech Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with prolific Harvard University legal scholar Cass Sunstein about his new book, Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide. Quillette 2 Nov 2024 · 10 min read
An Honest Conversation About Colonialism with Nigel Biggar: Quillette Cetera Episode 41 Zoe meets with the ethicist and theologian Nigel Biggar as part of his trip to Australia. Zoe Booth / Nigel Biggar 30 Oct 2024 · 21 min read
Podcast #256: Unreliable Sources Iona Italia talks to Jack Despain Zhou (aka Tracing Woodgrains) about the decline of standards at Wikipedia as a result of the obsessive efforts of ideologically motivated editors. Quillette 24 Oct 2024 · 49 min read
Podcast #255: We Have Never Been Woke Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with scholar Musa al-Gharbi, whose acclaimed new book analyses the rise of progressive ideological orthodoxy as a means for elites to signal status and accumulate ‘cultural capital.’ Quillette 19 Oct 2024 · 11 min read
7 October, One Year Later with David Benatar: Quillette Cetera Episode 40 On the anniversary of 7 October, philosopher David Benatar discusses the ethical questions it raises and about his new book, “Very Practical Ethics.” Zoe Booth 10 Oct 2024 · 17 min read
Podcast #254: In Defence of Beauty Iona Italia talks to artist Megan Gafford about how we have come to value statement-making over beauty and craftsmanship in art and architecture. Quillette 9 Oct 2024 · 44 min read
Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz: Quillette Cetera Episode 39 A conversation with Roger Berkowitz, the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics. Zoe Booth 4 Oct 2024 · 10 min read
Podcast #253: A Brief History of Communism Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin about his new book, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism. Quillette 4 Oct 2024 · 16 min read
Podcast #252: Trans Rights, Israel, and the Progressive Circus Iona Italia talks to Democratic political campaigner Brianna Wu about finding a more sensible approach to trans rights and combating progressive insanity. Quillette 25 Sep 2024 · 51 min read
