A collection of 352 posts
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.
Iona Italia talks to Sam Bowman about how to combat the economic stagnation and excess bureaucracy that are currently preventing the UK from reaching its full potential.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Adam Kirsch about the growing corps of academics and activists seeking to demonise ‘settler colonialists’ in North America, Australia—and especially Israel.
Iona Italia talks to Nick Osmond-Jones about the impacts of some absurd DEI directives on Canadian public service.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with prolific Harvard University legal scholar Cass Sunstein about his new book, Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide.
Zoe meets with the ethicist and theologian Nigel Biggar as part of his trip to Australia.
Iona Italia talks to Jack Despain Zhou (aka Tracing Woodgrains) about the decline of standards at Wikipedia as a result of the obsessive efforts of ideologically motivated editors.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with scholar Musa al-Gharbi, whose acclaimed new book analyses the rise of progressive ideological orthodoxy as a means for elites to signal status and accumulate ‘cultural capital.’
On the anniversary of 7 October, philosopher David Benatar discusses the ethical questions it raises and about his new book, “Very Practical Ethics.”
Iona Italia talks to artist Megan Gafford about how we have come to value statement-making over beauty and craftsmanship in art and architecture.
A conversation with Roger Berkowitz, the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics.
Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin about his new book, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism.
Iona Italia talks to Democratic political campaigner Brianna Wu about finding a more sensible approach to trans rights and combating progressive insanity.
A conversation with the Cuban student, poet and free-speech advocate, Justo Antonio Triana.