A collection of 335 posts
Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer David Frum about Trump’s pro-Russian political cult. Also discussed: Israel, the fate of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, and the strange social panic surrounding Canada’s (as yet undiscovered) ‘unmarked graves.’
Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann speaks with Bangladeshi-born Australian psychiatrist and journalist Tanveer Ahmed about the rise of Jew-hatred in their country.
Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes have been growing more salient in western societies.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism.
Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Dutch writer Marco Visscher, author of ‘The Power of Nuclear: The Rise, Fall and Return of Our Mightiest Energy Source.’
Zoe interviews her colleague Jonathan Kay, who once ghostwrote for Trudeau, about his time working with the Canadian soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister.
Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Southern California scholar William Deverell about what he calls the ‘new fire regime in the American West.’
Iona Italia talks to eminent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about science, literature, and genetics.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Crowther about seventeenth-century puritan attitudes toward yuletide debauchery—and about his acclaimed History of England podcast.
Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of ‘A Theory of Everyone,’ about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Joan Smith, whose new book critically examines the 2,000-year-old propaganda campaign against imperial Rome’s leading women.
Iona Italia talks to globetrotter and intellectual magpie Anna Gat about her modern-day salon, Interintellect.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay discusses recent events at the University of Western Ontario, where instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights.
A colourful conversation with polemicist Richard Hanania.