Quillette Podcast

Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Privileged Class

James Kirchick on 'Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington'

Richard Dawkins on the Wonders of Flight

'Sex Realism' Versus 'Sex Denialism': Is the Tide Finally Turning Against Gender Ideology?

Progressive Social Panic at Yale and Princeton

How Elon Musk Can Promote Free Speech-Without Turning Twitter Into One Big 'Dumpster Fire'

Rob Montz on Harvard University's Campaign Against One of Its Most Famous (and Politically Incorrect) Black Professors

Frances Widdowson on the Questions Canadians Aren't Supposed to Ask About Unmarked Graves

Shmuel Bar on the War in Ukraine, and the Failure of Western Deterrence

Sam Harris on Islam, Dropping Acid, Joe Rogan, Vaccine Pseudoscience, the Wonders of Meditation, Collaborating with Ricky Gervais, and the Myth of Free Will

Russia's Surprising Military Blunders in Ukraine: A Strategic Analysis

Jacob Mchangama on His New Book, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media"

Chris Best on Substack's Commitment to Free Speech

Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' Protesters, in Their Own Words

Christopher J. Ferguson on Racist Orcs, Ableist Adventures, and Non-Binary Monsters: Can 'Dungeons & Dragons' Survive Wokeness?

Michael Shermer: Watching 'Scientific American' Go Woke

New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat on His Hellish Experience with Lyme Disease

Jonathan Kay on Middle Age, Watch Collecting, Sports Cars, Board Games, and Disc Golf

Paul Lockhart on How Guns Transformed Western Civilization

Trent Colbert Turns the Tables on Yale Law School's Kafkaesque Diversity Department

Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Growing Gulf Between Ordinary Americans and the Progressive Journalists Who Cover Them

Nancy Segal on Lessons in Human Nature Revealed by Identical Twins

Michael Shellenberger on How Progressive Activists Are Making American Cities Poorer, Dirtier, and More Dangerous

Will Storr on Our Insatiable Appetite for Status

Harvard Professor Steven Pinker on How to Think Rationally, the Monty Hall Problem, Kurt Gödel, and the Case for Objective Truth

Jonathan Haidt on Instagram's Mental Health Emergency

Vivek Ramaswamy on the 'Woke Smoke' Blown by Corporate America

Josh Szeps on the Myth of Australia's COVID 'Concentration Camps'

'Grievance Studies' Hoaxster Peter Boghossian on Quitting Portland State, and His Mission to Bring Intellectual Pluralism Back to Universtiy Education

Comedian and Podcaster Jamie Kilstein on His COVID-Era Struggles

Satirist Simon Edge on His New Novel, 'The End of the World Is Flat,' a Send-up of Radical Gender Politics

Journalist and Book Author Terry Glavin on the Fall of Kabul and the Fate of Afghanistan

Comedian Jessica Pigeau on 'Safe Space' Performers, Progressive Mobbing, and Anxiety Overload in the World of Stand-Up

Author Milli Hill on the Growth of Social Justice Mobs Among Birthing Activists, Dhoullas, and Midwives

Jonathan Kay on Life at Quillette, The New York Times, FOX News, Seth Rogen, Dog Shampoo, His New Book, and Childhood Vacations at Del Boca Vista

Glenn Loury on America's Political Polarization and the 2020 Election

Christopher Rufo's Whirlwind Campaign Against Critical Race Theory

Christian Toto on Progressive Ideological Inroads Into Children's Shows, Anti-Racist Baby Books, And... Breakfast Cereal

Heather Mac Donald on The Juilliard School's Strange Anti-Racist Meltdown

Jonathan Rauch on the importance of free speech in an age of misinformation

Michael Shermer on Our Enduring Fascination with UFOs

Nicholas Wade Explains Why It's No Longer Taboo to Ask Whether COVID-19 Was Caused by a Chinese Lab Leak

Kenny Xu on Asian-Americans' Success, And Their Complicated Placement in the Progressive 'Intersectional' Hierarchy

Author Helen Pluckrose on the Role of Postmodernism in the Construction of Modern Social-Justice Dogmas

Lingnan University scholar Peter Baehr on Academic Life Within Hong Kong's Increasingly Repressive Political Atmosphere

A Short Message From Quillette: Here's How to Help Us Make Our Podcast Better

Bernard Lane on the Fight for a More Balanced Approach Toward Children and Teens Seeking Medicalized Gender Change

Richard Hanania on the Real Reason Progressives Are Winning the Culture War: They Just Want It More

Michael Shellenberger on the Case for Nuclear Power, Progressive Hypocrisy on Energy Policy, and His New book, 'Apocalypse Never'

Sean McMeekin on 'Stalin's War: A New History of World War II'