Podcast - Quillette (Page 13)

PODCAST 132: Philippe Lemoine on the Case for Lockdown Skepticism

Jonathan Kay speaks to Philippe Lemoine about problematic assumptions embedded in the models used to support COVID lockdown policy. Yes, separating people helps reduce virus transmission and saves lives. But forced isolation also can generate serious (and often life-threatening) risks. Moreover, how much of the beneficial effects attributed to lockdowns

Quillette / Philippe Lemoine

6 Jan 2021 · 1 min read

PODCAST 131: Professor Tania Reynolds on the Controversy Over Female Mentorship in Academia

University of New Mexico social psychologist Tania Reynolds speaks with Jonathan Kay about Nature Communications‘ questionable decision to retract a controversial article, the intrusion of ideology into scholarship about academic mentorship, and the principles of evolutionary biology that may affect female professional relationships. Prof. Reynolds originally wrote about this issue

Quillette / Tania Reynolds

2 Jan 2021 · 1 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 129: Oren Cass on the Conservative Case for Labor Unions

As the conservative movement enters a period of post-Trump flux, American Compass CEO Oren Cass explains to Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay why a right-leaning coalition with organized labor now makes sense.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

17 Dec 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 128: Nicholas Christakis on ‘Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound And Enduring Impact of Coronavirus On The Way We Live’

Yale Sociologist and Physician Nicholas Christakis speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the origins of COVID-19, how it compares to Bubonic Plague and Spanish Flu, and the way it will shape the future of our societies

Quillette / Nicholas Christakis

10 Dec 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 127: Historian Benny Morris on the Forgotten 19th-Century Genocide of Turkey's Christians

Jonathan Kay speaks to famed Middle Eastern historian Benny Morris, whose latest book explores the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Transcript Jonathan Kay: Benny Morris is one of the world's most well-known historians of Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians,

Quillette / Benny Morris

8 Dec 2020 · 19 min read

PODCAST 126: Abigail Shrier on Her New Book About Peer Contagion and Gender Dysphoria

Jonathan Kay speaks to Wall Street Journal contributor Abigail Shrier about the sudden surge of teenage girls seeking gender reassignment, the backlash against her book…and the backlash against the backlash.

Quillette / Abigail Shrier

6 Dec 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 125: Yale School of Public Health Professor David Paltiel on Computer Modelling of COVID-19 Vaccination Programs

Jonathan Kay speaks to public health expert David Paltiel about his newly published mathematical models, which show how mass vaccination could help end the COVID-19 pandemic

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

28 Nov 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 124: Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’

Author Shelby Steele speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about white guilt, the ‘poetic truth’ of Ferguson, the dead end of racial grievances, and the creative process of working with his son Eli

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

23 Nov 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 123: Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras

Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB and T, and the new journalistic climate that he expects will emerge under Joe Biden.

Quillette / Brad Polumbo

20 Nov 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 122: Former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier, on This Week’s Good News About the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Jeffrey Flier—physician, endocrinologist, researcher, and 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University—speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Pfizer’s recent announcement that its candidate COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be more than 90% effective in preliminary testing.

Quillette

14 Nov 2020 · 1 min read

Podcast #121: The Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters

A conversation with Jamil Jivani.

Quillette

6 Nov 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 120: Jodi Shaw on a Climate of Fear at Smith College, Following Unproven Racism Accusations

A whistleblower at an elite Massachusetts women’s college talks to Jonathan Kay about how a single 2018 incident on campus unleashed public-shaming measures that targeted the school’s lowest paid workers—all in the name of social justice

Quillette

3 Nov 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 119: Cult expert and deprogrammer Rick Ross on NXIVM, founder Keith Raniere, and the many tactics cults use to exploit the unwary

Rick Ross, executive director of the nonprofit Cult Education Institute, speaks with Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about infamous cult leader (and now convicted felon) Keith Raniere, who spent 14 years suing Ross for telling the truth about NXIVM.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

26 Oct 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