Podcast - Quillette (Page 14)

PODCAST 117: Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into (and Escape From) Social-Justice Extremism

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20 Oct 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 116: Asra Nomani on the Damage Inflicted on Asian-American Students by Critical Race Theory

Jonathan Kay talks to writer Asra Nomani about the campaign to end race-neutral admissions testing at Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, America’s best public high school—and the disturbing attacks on Asian academic “culture” that have come with it

Quillette / Asra Q. Nomani

16 Oct 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 115: Stuart Buck on How COVID-19 Has Exposed the Shortfalls of Scientific Peer Review

Jonathan Kay talks to scientific transparency advocate Stuart Buck about how the rapid pace of COVID-19 science has exposed longstanding problems with the methods we use to validate scientific research

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10 Oct 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 114: Cellist Daniel Lelchuk on How Beethoven’s Genius Flourished in Napoleon’s World

Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to concert cellist Daniel Lelchuk about the timeless, global appeal of Beethoven—and the turbulent historical world that inspired the great German composer’s works.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Daniel Lelchuk

3 Oct 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 113: Jeff Rubin on the Plight of Today’s Middle-Class ‘Expendables’

Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to economist-turned-author Jeff Rubin about his new book, The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization—and the devastating consequences of globalization that many progressive thinkers seem reluctant to talk about.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Jeff Rubin

25 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 112: Sex Neuroscientist Debra Soh on Her New Book, The End of Gender

Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to scientist and author Dr Debra Soh about the misinformation being peddled to young people about biological sex and transition—and the most humane ways to help people who experience gender dysphoria. Debra has just published The End of Gender.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Debra Soh

19 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 111: Suzi Jamil on Think Inc, Heterodox Thinking, and Australia’s Flourishing Intellectual Marketplace

Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Think Inc Founder Suzi Jamil about the rewards and challenges of bringing the world’s greatest thinkers to Sydney—and their new collaboration, Free Thought Live. You can reserve a spot at their first joint event on September 26th—in which the political satirist

Quillette / Claire Lehmann

15 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 110: Psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed on His New Book In Defence of Shame

Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Dr. Tanveer Ahmed about how we should accept the presence of shame in our lives without succumbing to despair or outrage mobs.

Quillette / Tanveer Ahmed

11 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 109: Substack Founder Chris Best on How the Humble Email Newsletter is Saving Journalism

Tech entrepreneur Chris Best talks about Substack, his self-publishing platform that is attracting journalists like Andrew Sullivan, Jesse Singal and Jen Gerson.

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6 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 108: Conservative Intellectual Douglas Murray on the Newly Emboldened Radical Left and Why the Silent Majority Needs to Speak Up

Author Douglas Murray talks about the new Afterword to The Madness of Crowds, his best-selling book about identity politics, and the events of the last six months which have accelerated the toxic trends he warned about.

Quillette / Douglas Murray

3 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 107: Trans Pioneer Buck Angel on the Afterlife of a Porn Actor, his Campaign for LGBT Rights, and the Reality of Biological Sex

Trans porn star Buck Angel talks to Jonathan Kay about transitioning at age 28, his life in in adult film, and the infighting within the trans community.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

2 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 106: Journalist and Documentary Maker Christopher Rufo on the Summer of Anarchy in Seattle and Portland

Christopher Rufo, Director of the Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute, talks to Jonathan Kay about the ideology fuelling the violent protests in Seattle and Portland.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

25 Aug 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 105: Yoram Hazony on the Challenge of Marxism

Yoram Hazony, author of The Virtue of Nationalism, talks about the why liberal institutions like the New York Times have proved so vulnerable to capture by the hard Left. He wrote about this recently for Quillette.

Quillette / Yoram Hazony

21 Aug 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 104: University Fundraiser Peter Cohen on Jeffrey Epstein, the Scandal at MIT, and Ronan Farrow’s Flawed Journalism

Peter Cohen, a university fundraiser, talks about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, its impact on MIT, and Ronan Farrow’s flawed reporting. He recently wrote about all of the above for Quillette.

Quillette / Peter Cohen

13 Aug 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 103: Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move

Evolutionary Biologist (and new Quillette Managing Editor) Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move

Quillette / Colin Wright

8 Aug 2020 · 1 min read