Podcast #277: Anti-Zionism, Past and Present
An interview with scholar Izabella Tabarovsky about the Soviet roots of contemporary anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
Quillette, Izabella Tabarovsky
· 31 min read
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Podcast #276: On Book Banning
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Ira Wells about the censorship demands emanating from both sides of the political spectrum.
Quillette, Ira Wells, Jonathan Kay
· 3 min read
Podcast #275: Christianity and the American Polity
Iona Italia talks to Brookings Institution senior fellow Jonathan Rauch about his latest book, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy.
Quillette, Jonathan Rauch
· 28 min read
Podcast #274: David Frum on Donald Trump’s Betrayal of Ukraine
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
· 2 min read
Podcast #273: Australia’s Antisemitism Crisis
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.
Quillette, Claire Lehmann, Tanveer Ahmed
· 19 min read
Podcast #272: The Great Divergence
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, David C. Geary
· 24 min read
Podcast #271: The Canadian Episode—Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s Travails
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
· 14 min read
Podcast #270: ‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’
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, William Deresiewicz
· 9 min read
Podcast #268: The Power of Nuclear
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.’
Quillette, Marco Visscher
· 26 min read
My Experience Working With Justin Trudeau: Quillette Cetera Episode 43
Zoe interviews her colleague Jonathan Kay, who once ghostwrote for Trudeau, about his time working with the Canadian soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister.
Zoe Booth, Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
Podcast #267: The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires
Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Southern California scholar William Deverell about what he calls the ‘new fire regime in the American West.’
Quillette
· 13 min read
Podcast #266: Reading and Writing Science
Iona Italia talks to eminent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about science, literature, and genetics.
Quillette, Richard Dawkins
· 23 min read
Podcast #265: Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas?
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.
Quillette
· 15 min read
Podcast #264: A Theory of Everyone
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
· 39 min read
Podcast #263: In Defence of Julia the Elder
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.
Quillette
· 15 min read