Podcast - Quillette (Page 10)

Podcast #176: Jonathan Kay on Middle Age, Watch Collecting, Sports Cars, Board Games, and Disc Golf

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay ends 2021 by speaking to Bob Tarantino about the things he does when he isn’t hosting the Quillette podcast. For the original (and longer) version of this interview, please visit Bob Got a Microphone.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

23 Dec 2021 · 1 min read

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.

Quillette

9 Nov 2021 · 1 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

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.

Quillette

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

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

Podcast #165: Peter Boghossian on Why He Quit Portland State University

“Grievance Studies” hoaxster and philosophy professor Peter Boghossian tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he could no longer continue waging his struggle for intellectual pluralism without first shaking off the ideological constraints of campus life.

Quillette / James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian

13 Sep 2021 · 1 min read

Podcast #164: Comedian and Podcaster Jamie Kilstein on His COVID-Era Struggles

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Jamie Kilstein about the challenges he's faced since his excommunication from California's progressive entertainment circles.

Quillette / Jamie Kilstein

7 Sep 2021 · 1 min read

Podcast #163: Satirist Simon Edge on His New Novel, 'The End of the World Is Flat,' a Send-up of Radical Gender Politics

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Simon Edge about his new book, in which a fictional flat-earth advocacy group campaigns against the idea of a spherical earth (not to mention the "globularist" "TERGs" who oppose the new 'True Earth' orthodoxy) in the

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

31 Aug 2021 · 7 min read

Podcast #162: Journalist and Book Author Terry Glavin on the Fall of Kabul and the Fate of Afghanistan

Host Jonathan Kay interviews Afghanistan expert Terry Glavin about the complex mix of warlords and foreign players who may seek to undo the country’s takeover by Taliban forces.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

23 Aug 2021 · 1 min read