Beste Quillette podcasts (2025)

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'The Language of Sex' by Marilyn Simon 18:27

6h ago18:27

18:27

While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated.Door Quillette

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The Great Divergence 17:40

3d ago17:40

17:40

Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes have been growing more salient in western societies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Quillette

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'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke 5:45

3d ago5:45

5:45

A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.Door Quillette

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Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future by Razib Khan 9:26

6d ago9:26

9:26

Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.Door Quillette

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The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter by Razib Khan 9:44

6d ago9:44

9:44

The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.Door Quillette

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'Trump and the Academic Cocoon' by Heather Mac Donald 19:51

7d ago19:51

19:51

A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.Door Quillette

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'The Weak Horse' by Brian Stewart 14:27

7d ago14:27

14:27

Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.Door Quillette

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'Anti-Zionism’s German Roots' by Gerfried Ambrosch 20:04

7d ago20:04

20:04

While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.Door Quillette

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'Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess' by Iona Italia 21:57

7d ago21:57

21:57

While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.Door Quillette

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'Tyranny Is Not What It Used to Be' by Brian Stewart 15:17

7d ago15:17

15:17

In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time.Door Quillette

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The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die by Kevin Mims 41:27

7d ago41:27

41:27

Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.Door Quillette

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Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist by Coel Hellier. 21:01

7d ago21:01

21:01

The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.Door Quillette

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Roald Dahl and the Ethics of Art by Iona Italia 20:40

7d ago20:40

20:40

The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable.Door Quillette

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Sage of Sex and Psyche by Steven Pinker 22:02

7d ago22:02

22:02

Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).Door Quillette

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'Jesus Wasn't Palestinian' by John Aziz 10:21

7d ago10:21

10:21

Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history.Door Quillette

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'The Baby Gate: A Memoir' by Steve Salerno 40:02

7d ago40:02

40:02

So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email.Door Quillette

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The Canadian Episode: Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s Travails 40:50

9d ago40:50

40:50

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Quillette

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'The Language of Soviet Propaganda' by Izabella Tabarovsky 26:22

10d ago26:22

26:22

Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.Door Quillette

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'Burning the Quran' by John Aziz 9:21

11d ago9:21

9:21

Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms?Door Quillette

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'Australia's Anti-Semitism Crisis' by Claire Lehmann 9:53

14d ago9:53

9:53

Claire Lehmann discusses the aftermath of a firebombing at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne and the perceived leadership failures in Australia relating to antisemitism. Lehmann argues that there is a leadership vacuum as key figures like Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fail to adequately address antisemitic incidents. This institutional indi…

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‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’ 15:45

16d ago15:45

15:45

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Quillette

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Ancient Australians 18:31

24d ago18:31

18:31

Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to “Mungo Manic” about his extensive research into the lives of the ancient Australians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Quillette

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'Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing' by Pascal Bruckner 40:55

25d ago40:55

40:55

Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.Door Quillette

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'The Ceasefire Deal' by Benny Morris 20:06

27d ago20:06

20:06

As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear.Door Quillette

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'The Power of Nuclear' 17:47

1M ago17:47

17:47

Quillette podcast host Iona Italia speaks with Dutch writer Marco Visscher, author of The Power of Nuclear: The Rise, Fall and Return of Our Mightiest Energy Source. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Quillette

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'Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him' by Jonathan Kay 13:34

1M ago13:34

13:34

Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.Door Quillette

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'This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism' by John Aziz 11:05

1M ago11:05

11:05

Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.Door Quillette

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My Experience Working With Justin Trudeau: Jonathan Kay 53:03

1M ago53:03

53:03

Quillette's Senior Editor, Jonathan Kay reflects on his time ghostwriting Justin Trudeau’s memoir and shares his take on Trudeau’s political trajectory—from golden boy to polariser-in-chief. We get into the highs of his early leadership, his pivot to hardcore social progressivism, the fallout from the truckers’ protest, and the growing anxiety arou…

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The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires 18:19

1M ago18:19

18:19

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Southern California scholar William Deverell about the enormous fires that have destroyed large swathes of the Los Angeles area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Quillette

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Reading and Writing Science 44:51

1M ago44:51

44:51

Iona Italia talks to eminent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about science, literature, and genetics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Quillette

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Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas? 18:02

2M ago18:02

18:02

In a special yuletide episode, Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Crowther about seventeenth-century puritan attitudes toward yuletide debauchery—and about his acclaimed History of England podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Quillette

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'A Theory of Everyone' 17:52

2M ago17:52

17:52

Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of A Theory of Everyone, about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Quillette

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In Defence of Julia the Elder 20:15

2M ago20:15

20:15

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Joan Smith, whose new book critically examines the 2,000-year-old propaganda campaign against imperial Rome’s leading women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Quillette

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'Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare' by Jonathan Kay 22:12

2M ago22:12

22:12

In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror.Door Quillette

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'Savage Entertainment' by Jaspreet Singh Boparai 50:43

2M ago50:43

50:43

A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history.Door Quillette

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'Interintellect and the Modern-Day Salon' 19:12

2M ago19:12

19:12

Iona Italia talks to globetrotter and intellectual magpie Anna Gat about her modern-day salon, Interintellect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Quillette

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Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’ 17:12

3M ago17:12

17:12

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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