Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Coleman Hughes about his acclaimed new book, The End of Race: Politics Arguments for a Colorblind America.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women

Mar 15th, 2024 39m 55s

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with fellow podcaster Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy, a “community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations about subjects that don’t come with easy solutions.”Learn more about your a

Is Israel Really Committing Genocide in Gaza?

Feb 21st, 2024 46m 17s

University of Florida historian Norman Goda tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he isn’t persuaded by South Africa’s claims against Israel at the International Court of Justice.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc

Leaving MAGA

Jan 28th, 2024 31m 39s

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Rich Logis, a one-time fervent Donald Trump supporter who’s now renounced his MAGA beliefs—and is trying to help others do the same.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Fine Line Between Denouncing ‘Settler Colonialism’ and Supporting Terrorism

Jan 16th, 2024 33m 16s

Atlantic magazine writer Michael Powell talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his latest article—The Curious Rise of Settler Colonialism and Turtle Island—in which he explains how activists are weaponizing fashionable academic doct

How ‘Intersectional Feminism’ Got Hijacked by Men

Dec 4th, 2023 45m 53s

Veteran feminist activist, author, and pundit Julie Bindel talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the need to protect hard-won women’s rights from gender ideologues.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Justinian

Nov 22nd, 2023 1h 7m

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Cambridge University historian Peter Sarris about his new book on Justinian the Great, the lowborn sixth century Byzantine emperor who remade Roman law, suppressed Christian heresies, built architect

The October 7 Terrorist Attacks, in Historical Perspective

Nov 1st, 2023 26m 17s

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to influential Israeli historian Benny Morris about Hamas’ acts of mass murder, the Israeli response, and the future of Gaza.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric Kaufmann’s New ‘Centre for Heterodox Social Science’

Oct 20th, 2023 38m 10s

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with political scientist Eric Kaufmann about cancel culture, switching universities, and why academics need to have honest conversations about the down side of immigration.Learn more about your ad cho

The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash aka DJ Hookie

Oct 18th, 2023 1h 7m

Quillette editor and podcast host Iona Italia talks with speaker, DJ, and quadruple amputee Tom Nash about his new book, ‘Hook, Line, and Sinner.’Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children

Oct 2nd, 2023 44m 50s

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychotherapist and book author Stella O’Malley, and parent “Josie A.,” about the need to heed parents’ voices before “affirming” a child’s desire for gender-transition therapies.Learn more about yo

Tracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (Formerly) Known as Wokeness

Sep 13th, 2023 59m 42s

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Johns Hopkins University professor Yascha Mounk about the role of Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in shaping today’s illiberal, identity-fixated political m

Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl

Sep 11th, 2023 58m 14s

Quillette associate editor Iona Italia interviews journalist John Colapinto, whose book "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl" chronicles the life of David Reimer, a Canadian man who was born as Bruce Reimer and subjected to a c

Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious Movements

Sep 2nd, 2023 46m 6s

Indian-Canadian podcast host Kushal Mehra interviews Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the radicalized beliefs and unsettling rituals that now characterize performative progressive politics in Canada and the rest of the Western world.Learn more a

Talking Science and Substacking in ‘Nash Vegas‘

Aug 23rd, 2023 26m 6s

Podcast host Jonathan Kay shares a Nashville breakfast with journalist Christina Buttons and her Quillette-alumnus boyfriend, Colin Wright, author of the popular Substack, Reality’s Last StandLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f

When DEI ‘Training’ Becomes a Pretext for Bullying and Harassment: A Tragic Canadian Case Study

Aug 8th, 2023 23m 32s

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with municipal politician Bill Dennis about diversity consultant Kike Ojo-Thompson, whose training methods became infamous following the recent suicide of Toronto educator Richard Bilkszto (1963-2023).

McMaster University’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic

Jul 6th, 2023 29m 25s

Lawrence Krauss, host of The Origins Podcast, interviews Jonathan Kay about his Quillette investigation into the spread of false rape allegations on a Canadian university campus in 2020—and the lessons that can be learned.Learn more about your

Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism

Jul 3rd, 2023 49m 59s

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to acclaimed historian Orlando Figes, whose new book traces Russia’s political dysfunction back to the age of Byzantium and the Mongol invasion.This podcast is also available on YouTube.Learn more abo

Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist

Jun 24th, 2023 42m 5s

Iona Italia speaks with Henry Rambow, whose Hate No More podcast tells the story of “Casper,” a one-time leader of the State Prison Skinheads.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whom is the Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Industry Actually Helping?

Jun 9th, 2023 40m 50s

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf about his recent article, The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices