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Quillette Podcast

Quillette Podcast

Quillette

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.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Quillette Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Quillette Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Quillette Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

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Quillette Podcast - Australia’s Antisemitism Crisis
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02/23/25 • 15 min

Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann speaks with Bangladeshi-born Australian psychiatrist and journalist Tanveer Ahmed about the rise of Jew-hatred in their country.

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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author James Kirchick about the closeted lives of gay men living and working in America's capital during the Cold War.

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Quillette Podcast - Progressive Social Panic at Yale and Princeton
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05/23/22 • 46 min

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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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.

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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.

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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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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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Quillette Podcast - Michael Shermer: Watching 'Scientific American' Go Woke
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01/17/22 • 50 min

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.

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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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FAQ

How many episodes does Quillette Podcast have?

Quillette Podcast currently has 474 episodes available.

What topics does Quillette Podcast cover?

The podcast is about News, News Commentary, Podcasts and Politics.

What is the most popular episode on Quillette Podcast?

The episode title 'Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard: The Definitive Postmortem from an Unlikely Expert' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Quillette Podcast?

The average episode length on Quillette Podcast is 36 minutes.

How often are episodes of Quillette Podcast released?

Episodes of Quillette Podcast are typically released every 3 days, 17 hours.

When was the first episode of Quillette Podcast?

The first episode of Quillette Podcast was released on Nov 6, 2018.

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