Podcast #121: The Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters
A conversation with Jamil Jivani.
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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
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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.
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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.
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PODCAST 117: Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into (and Escape From) Social-Justice Extremism
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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
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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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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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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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.
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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
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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.
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