Podcast - Quillette (Page 9)

Quillette Podcast #191: Richard Dawkins on the Wonders of Flight

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about his new book on the science and mythology of life in the air—from puffins and flying squirrels to fairies and angels.

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20 Jun 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #190: ‘Sex Realism’ Versus ‘Sex Denialism’: Is the Tide Finally Turning Against Gender Ideology?

Economist editor Helen Joyce, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, explains to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why biology must trump politics when it comes to defining who is a woman and who is a man.

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5 Jun 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #189: Progressive Social Panic at Yale and Princeton

Reporter Aaron Sibarium talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his recent scoops concerning the campaign against anti-woke Princeton classics professor Joshua Katz, and the unsettling radicalism of student activists at Yale Law School.

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23 May 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #188: How Elon Musk Can Promote Free Speech—Without Turning Twitter Into One Big ‘Dumpster Fire’

Veteran technology expert Jim Rutt tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the hard lessons he’s learned over four decades of creating and implementing content-moderation standards on numerous social-media platforms. Image below: The GameB Home Rules and Norms on Jim Rutt’s GameB site, as cited in this week’

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8 May 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #187: Rob Montz on Harvard University’s Campaign Against One of Its Most Famous (and Politically Incorrect) Black Professors

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with documentary filmmaker Rob Montz about self-made education expert Roland G. Fryer Jr.—who bucked Harvard’s progressive party line on race and education, and then got targeted with dubious harassment claims.

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25 Apr 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #186: Frances Widdowson on the Questions Canadians Aren’t Supposed to Ask About Unmarked Graves

Former Mount Royal University professor Frances Widdowson describes the political, academic, and journalistic taboos surrounding the fate of Indigenous residential-school students in western Canada. Transcript of the Introduction: Welcome to the Quillette podcast. I’m Jonathan Kay. This week, we’re going to be talking about the issue of unmarked

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13 Apr 2022 · 5 min read

Quillette Podcast #185: Shmuel Bar on the War in Ukraine, and the Failure of Western Deterrence

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to intelligence expert Shmuel Bar about why Putin bungled the war in Ukraine, why NATO didn’t do enough to deter the Russians, and what happens next. Read our guest’s recent Quillette article, Deterrence After Ukraine—A Critical Analysis, here.

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5 Apr 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #184: Sam Harris on Islam, Joe Rogan, Vaccines, Meditation, Ricky Gervais, and the Myth of Free Will

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay asks neuroscientist, philosopher, best-selling author, and celebrity podcaster Sam Harris about the key to living a fulfilling and satisfying life (and whether it’s okay to tell your children they’re bad at sports).

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25 Mar 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #183: Russia’s Surprising Military Blunders in Ukraine: A Strategic Analysis

Royal Military College professor Sean Maloney and Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay discuss the state of the war in Ukraine, and consider what Vladimir Putin will do to salvage his widely denounced invasion.

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9 Mar 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #182: Jacob Mchangama on His New Book, ’Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Copenhagen-based think-tank scholar and podcaster Jacob Mchangama about why so many human societies have such a difficult time tolerating dissent and heresy.

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7 Mar 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #181: Chris Best on Substack’s Commitment to Free Speech

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Substack’s founder and CEO about empowering writers through free expression (and his company’s new, foosball-table-free San Francisco offices).

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27 Feb 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #180: Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protesters, in Their Own Words

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Paisley and Jay VanderWier, two of the many ordinary working-class Canadians who’ve assembled in Ottawa to protest restrictive government COVID policies.

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15 Feb 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #179: Racist Orcs, Ableist Adventures, and Non-Binary Monsters: Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Survive Wokeness?

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychology professor Christopher J. Ferguson about his newly published academic paper, Are Orcs Racist? Dungeons and Dragons, Ethnocentrism, Anxiety, and the Depiction of ‘Evil’ Monsters.

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31 Jan 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast #178: Michael Shermer on Watching ‘Scientific American’ Go Woke

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to book author and Skeptic editor Michael Shermer about why scientific media, professional organizations, and academic departments are increasingly succumbing to progressive ideological fads. Transcript: Jonathan Kay (JK): Michael welcome to the podcast. You’re a longtime friend of Quillette, and you've

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17 Jan 2022 · 33 min read

Quillette Podcast #177: New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat on His Hellish Experience with Lyme Disease

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat about how his new book—which explores both his own fight against chronic Lyme disease, and the controversy surrounding the condition within the medical community.

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4 Jan 2022 · 1 min read