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Podcast #211: Youth Gender Dysphoria and Social Contagion: Exploring the Latest Research

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Northwestern University psychology professor J. Michael Bailey, co-author of the newly published academic article, Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1,655 Possible Cases. Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases - Archives of Sexual BehaviorDuring the

Quillette 4 Apr 2023 · 2 min read

Podcast #210: Keeping Biological Males Out of Women’s Swimming

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to NCAA backstroke champion-turned-activist Marshi Smith about her years in the pool, the Lia Thomas controversy, and Smith’s campaign to protect the integrity of female sport.

Quillette 29 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #209: In Defence of the British Empire

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar, author of a newly published, best-selling book that examines the mixed legacy of British colonial rule.

Quillette, Nigel Biggar 12 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #208: Fair Play for Female Athletes—Then and Now

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to former U.S. Olympic team rower Mary O’Connor about her 1970s-era fight against sports sexism—and today’s battle to keep male bodies out of women’s rowing.

Quillette 27 Feb 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #207: The Fight to Provide Gender Dysphoric Children with Holistic Therapy Instead of Instant ‘Affirmation’

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with James Esses, an aspiring British therapist who was expelled from his training institute for voicing concerns about ideologically programmed restrictions on the care of trans-identified youth.

Quillette 9 Feb 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #206: Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard: The Definitive Postmortem from an Unlikely Expert

Listen onSpotify Podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to literary journalist Charlotte Allen about her self-confessed “secret appetite” for trashy Hollywood stories—and her exhaustive Quillette story about Johnny Depp’s successful defamation suit against his ex-wife.

Quillette 21 Jan 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #205: From Golden Girls Super-fan to Right-Wing Culture Warrior: The Strange Journey of Dave Rubin

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Ross Anderson about the Rubin Report’s increasingly conservative (and angry) star host. Anderson’s Quillette profile of Rubin was published last month under the title, All About Dave. "Unfortunately, Rubin, like most of us, is slow to acknowledge

Quillette 3 Jan 2023 · 1 min read

Podcast #204: Discovering Your Inner ‘Demisexual’

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield of Feminine Chaos, about why young straight women are inventing new (and dubious) queer subcategories. Links discussed in this episode: Feminine Chaos: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Demisexual Feminine Chaos: Your Privilege

Quillette 15 Dec 2022 · 1 min read

Podcast #203: A Marriage Lost to Gender Identity

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to author Shannon Thrace—whose 16-year marriage fell apart after her newly transitioned husband became immersed in the ideologically uncompromising world of online transgender activism.

Quillette 5 Dec 2022 · 1 min read

Podcast #202: How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the Guggenheim Museum’s Top Curator

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer Helen Lewis about the fate of Nancy Spector, who lost her job at the pinnacle of the Manhattan art world amidst a flurry of unsubstantiated accusations by independent scholar Chaédria LaBouvier. In America, the summer of 2020 was revolutionary:

Quillette 22 Nov 2022 · 1 min read

Podcast #201: Sahar Tartak on Fighting Back Against Coerced ‘Anti-Racist’ Indoctrination in American Education

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale undergraduate student Sahar Tartak, who led a successful revolt against the ultra-progressive administration of her Long Island public high school.

Quillette 5 Nov 2022 · 1 min read

Podcast #200: Jonathan Kay on the State of Journalism, the Perils of Audience Capture, and the Art of Podcasting

Listen onSpotify For our 200th episode, Quillette founder Claire Lehmann interviews host Jonathan Kay about the evolution of his journalistic career before and after joining Quillette.

Quillette 23 Oct 2022 · 1 min read

Podcast #199: Andrew Lawton on the Legacy of Canada’s 2022 ‘Freedom Convoy’

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with True North journalist Andrew Lawton about his new Sutherland House book, The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World.

Quillette 11 Oct 2022 · 1 min read

Podcast #198: Kushal Mehra on the Explosive Growth of YouTube in India

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Indian podcaster and YouTuber Kushal Mehra about the raucous, angry, informative, and often hilarious world of Indian YouTube. Listen onSpotify Helpful links for episode listeners

Quillette, Kushal Mehra 22 Sep 2022 · 1 min read

Podcast #197: From VisiCalc to Global Cloud Computing: Lessons from a Lifelong Love Affair with Digital Technology

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to veteran Microsoft program manager, R&D coordinator, tablet-computing pioneer, and workplace visionary David Jones about the joy of spreadsheets, the art of “schedule chicken,” Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and “Clippy,” everyone’s least favourite digital office assistant.

Quillette 9 Sep 2022 · 1 min read

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