A collection of 388 posts
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Russell Shorto, whose new book chronicles the extraordinary events in 1664 that delivered Manhattan from the Dutch to the British.
Philosopher and programmer Sean Welsh talks with Zoe Booth about AI, colonial history, and why scepticism is the best guide through both technology and politics.
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith about her new book, 'Feminism Beyond Left and Right.'
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Stanford infectious diseases expert Jake Scott about the perils of rolling back immunisation treatments for COVID, RSV, and measles — and the misinformation spread by figures such as RFK Jr.
Heterodox psychology grad Anthony Rispo joins Zoe Booth to unpack leaving woke ideology and the psychology behind identity, conformity, and belief.
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist Rob Kurzban about his book 'Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind.'
As literary gatekeeping intensifies in the age of social media, author and Harvard fellow Adam Szetela joins Zoe to unpack how moral panics, elite ideology, and institutional cowardice are transforming publishing—and why the culture wars are being fought sentence by sentence.
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Roya Hakakian about her extraordinary memoir, Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to linguist, mathematician, and tournament organiser John Chew about the world of ultra-elite Scrabble word-masters.
Iona Italia talks to novelist and historian Nev March about how a series of landmark court cases in the 19th and 20th centuries upended both the Indian legal system and the Parsi community.
As antisemitism surges online and in the streets, online hate researcher Dr Andre Oboler joins Zoe to examine how conspiracy thinking, political ideology, and institutional complacency are fuelling hate—and what can be done to stop it.
Gay activist-turned-journalist Adam Zivo tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay how radicalised forms of trans and queer advocacy became a liability to the once-united LGBT movement.
Iona Italia talks to historian and film-maker Phil Craig about the latest in his series of books about World War II: ‘1945: A Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World.’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews veteran entertainment journalist Ben Mulroney—whose career has taken him to the Oscars red carpet and Kelly Ripa’s studio—about how ideological fads have damaged his industry.
As more young men search for meaning in a fragmented world, political sociologist Joshua Roose joins Zoe to explore how masculinity, disaffection, and the lure of belonging draw some toward Islamism, others to the far right.