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Quillette Podcast #186: Frances Widdowson on the Questions Canadians Aren’t Supposed to Ask About Unmarked Graves

Listen onSpotify Former Mount Royal University professor Frances Widdowson describes the political, academic, and journalistic taboos surrounding the fate of Indigenous residential-school students in western Canada. Transcript of the Introduction: Welcome to the Quillette podcast. I’m Jonathan Kay. This week, we’re going to be talking about the issue

Quillette 13 Apr 2022 · 5 min read

Quillette Podcast #185: Shmuel Bar on the War in Ukraine, and the Failure of Western Deterrence

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to intelligence expert Shmuel Bar about why Putin bungled the war in Ukraine, why NATO didn’t do enough to deter the Russians, and what happens next. Read our guest’s recent Quillette article, Deterrence After Ukraine—A Critical Analysis, here.

Quillette 5 Apr 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #184: Sam Harris on Islam, Joe Rogan, Vaccines, Meditation, Ricky Gervais, and the Myth of Free Will

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay asks neuroscientist, philosopher, best-selling author, and celebrity podcaster Sam Harris about the key to living a fulfilling and satisfying life (and whether it’s okay to tell your children they’re bad at sports).

Quillette 25 Mar 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #183: Russia’s Surprising Military Blunders in Ukraine: A Strategic Analysis

Listen onSpotify Royal Military College professor Sean Maloney and Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay discuss the state of the war in Ukraine, and consider what Vladimir Putin will do to salvage his widely denounced invasion.

Quillette 9 Mar 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #182: Jacob Mchangama on His New Book, ’Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media’

Jonathan Kay interviews Jacob Mchangama on his book tracing free speech from Socrates to social media and why societies often reject dissent.

Jonathan Kay, Jacob Mchangama 7 Mar 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #181: Chris Best on Substack’s Commitment to Free Speech

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Substack’s founder and CEO about empowering writers through free expression (and his company’s new, foosball-table-free San Francisco offices).

Quillette 27 Feb 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #180: Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protesters, in Their Own Words

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Paisley and Jay VanderWier, two of the many ordinary working-class Canadians who’ve assembled in Ottawa to protest restrictive government COVID policies.

Quillette 15 Feb 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #179: Racist Orcs, Ableist Adventures, and Non-Binary Monsters: Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Survive Wokeness?

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychology professor Christopher J. Ferguson about his newly published academic paper, Are Orcs Racist? Dungeons and Dragons, Ethnocentrism, Anxiety, and the Depiction of ‘Evil’ Monsters.

Quillette 31 Jan 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #178: Michael Shermer on Watching ‘Scientific American’ Go Woke

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to book author and Skeptic editor Michael Shermer about why scientific media, professional organizations, and academic departments are increasingly succumbing to progressive ideological fads. Listen onSpotify Transcript: Jonathan Kay (JK): Michael welcome to the podcast. You’re a longtime friend of Quillette, and you&

Quillette 17 Jan 2022 · 33 min read

Quillette Podcast #177: New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat on His Hellish Experience with Lyme Disease

Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat about how his new book—which explores both his own fight against chronic Lyme disease, and the controversy surrounding the condition within the medical community.

Quillette, Jonathan Kay 4 Jan 2022 · 1 min read

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

Listen onSpotify 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 · 2 min read

Podcast #175: Paul Lockhart on How Guns Transformed Western Civilization

Listen onSpotify 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

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

Listen onSpotify 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 · 2 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

Listen onSpotify 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

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