Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz: Quillette Cetera Episode 39
A conversation with Roger Berkowitz, the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics.
Zoe Booth
· 10 min read
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Podcast #253: A Brief History of Communism
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.
Quillette, Sean McMeekin
· 16 min read
Podcast #252: Trans Rights, Israel, and the Progressive Circus
Iona Italia talks to Democratic political campaigner Brianna Wu about finding a more sensible approach to trans rights and combating progressive insanity.
Quillette
· 51 min read
Escaping Cuba: Quillette Cetera Episode 38
A conversation with the Cuban student, poet and free-speech advocate, Justo Antonio Triana.
Zoe Booth, Justo Antonio Triana
· 24 min read
Liberalism vs Realism with Matt Johnson: Quillette Cetera Episode 37
The future of liberal democracies, populism, and what Mearsheimer and realists get wrong about Israel and Russia.
Zoe Booth, Matt Johnson
· 11 min read
Podcast #251: Tracing the Rise of Radicalised Anti-Zionism on American Campuses
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Paul Berman about the lingering influence of ‘Black Power’ advocate Stokely Carmichael, who once infamously claimed that ‘the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.’
Jonathan Kay
· 29 min read
Podcast #250: Israel: Germany’s Reason of State
Iona Italia talks to Gerfried Ambrosch about pro-Israel feeling on the German Left, antisemitism among Muslim immigrants and why Israel’s safety is “Germany’s reason of state.”
Quillette
· 27 min read
Podcast #249: The (Other) Scandal at Oberlin College
Jonathan Kay speaks with Roya Hakakian about the rise and fall of Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, a former Iranian official who’d presented himself to Oberlin as an agent of peace and ‘forgiveness.’
Quillette, Roya Hakakian
· 23 min read
Podcast #248: Bridging Divides Between Democrats and Republicans, with John R. Wood, Jr.
Iona Italia talks to John Wood, Jr. of Braver Angels, about building a stronger democratic consensus in America.
Quillette
· 26 min read
Podcast #247: Should Imane Khelif Be Allowed to Box Against Women?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with biologist Emma Hilton about the controversy surrounding a champion women’s boxer whom critics accuse of being biologically male.
Quillette
· 16 min read
Podcast #246: How Gender Activists Took Over a Scottish Rape-Crisis Centre
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Joan Smith about the scandals that unfolded at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre under the leadership of its male trans-identified CEO, Mridul Wadhwa.
Jonathan Kay
· 22 min read
Podcast #245: How We Form Our Political Beliefs with Oliver Traldi
Iona Italia talks to Oliver Traldi about his new book, ‘Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction.’
Quillette
· 48 min read
Podcast #244 : Language vs Reality with Nick Enfield
Iona Italia interviews linguistic anthropologist Nick Enfield about why language is good for lawyers and bad for scientists.
Quillette
· 37 min read
Dr Mike Israetel, The Philosopher Bodybuilder: Quillette Cetera Episode 36
The well-known bodybuilder and sports scientist speaks about growing up in the USSR, religion, war, and offensive jokes.
Zoe Booth
· 2 min read
Podcast #243: The Freedom to Blaspheme
Jonathan Kay speaks to fellow podcast host Kushal Mehra about the ‘eerie similarities’ between censorship campaigns in India and Canada.
Quillette
· 18 min read