Quillette Podcast
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Show overview
Quillette Podcast has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 346 episodes, alongside 2 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 210 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 27 min and 45 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 weeks ago, with 26 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2020, with 62 episodes published. Published by Quillette.
From the publisher
The Quillette Podcast is a platform for rigorous, academic discussions rooted in common sense and free inquiry. Non-dogmatic and grounded in liberal values, the podcast serves as a beacon for thoughtful conversation on science, politics, philosophy, and culture. Quillette prides itself on intellectual honesty, avoiding ideological extremism in favor of evidence-based reasoning and progress. Hosted by leading voices in academia and journalism, past guests include evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, and journalist Douglas Murray, among others. Expect candid conversations that promote common sense and challenge anti-science and conspiratorial narratives from both the far left and right.
Latest Episodes
View all 346 episodesPoliticising the Humanities: Sociology as Case Study
The ‘Sex Recession’ is Real
First Nations Chief, Podcast Pundit, Indigenous Gadfly
The Great Canadian Unmarked-Graves Social Panic (2021-2026)
The Case Against State-Sanctioned Euthanasia
An Ivy League University Looks Inward
Why the Enlightenment Matters
The Last Straight Woman
Is Fighting Antisemitism a Waste of Time?
Girls in an Online World
Documenting a Decade of Academic Meltdowns
The Search for Truth
The Historical Case for Israel
The Ayatollahs' Assassins
Iona Italia talks to Roya Hakakian about her book ‘Assassins of the Turquoise Palace’ and the past and present crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When Everyone Knows Every Knows...
Iona Italia talks to cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker about his new book on Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Has the Gay Rights Revolution Gone Too Far for the Gay Community’s Own Good?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University College London law professor Ronan McCrea about his new book, The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Extraordinary Exploits of Agent Zo
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to historian Clare Mulley about her biography of Polish war heroine Elżbieta Zawacka, aka Agent Zo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will Post-Islamist Iran Get a Royal Restoration?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Iranian-Canadian human-rights activist Kaveh Shahrooz about whether Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the last Shah of Iran, might rise to power as a new Prince of Persia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Catching a Serial Killer
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Maureen Callaghan about her book American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why We Need to Talk About Transgender School Shooters
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with journalist Adam Zivo about the 10 February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia—a mass murder perpetrated by a trans-identified male gunman who was initially identified by police and journalists as a woman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices