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  • Fighting Back Against Progressive ‘Neo-Racism’
    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’
  • Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women
    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with fellow podcaster Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy.
  • Is Israel Really Committing Genocide in Gaza?
    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.
  • Leaving MAGA
    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.
  • The Fine Line Between Denouncing ‘Settler Colonialism’ and Supporting Terrorism
    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 doctriness to delegitimize the existence of Israel, the United States, and other Western societies.
  • How ‘Intersectional Feminism’ Got Hijacked by Men
    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.
  • The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Justinian
    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Cambridge University historian Peter Sarris about Justinian the Great, the lowborn sixth-century Byzantine emperor who remade Roman law, suppressed Christian heresies, built architectural wonders, and reconquered lost lands.
  • The October 7 Terrorist Attacks, in Historical Perspective
    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.
  • Eric Kaufmann’s New ‘Centre for Heterodox Social Science’
    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with academic Eric Kaufmann about cancel culture, switching universities, and why academics need to have honest conversations about the down side of immigration.
  • The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash aka DJ Hookie
    Quillette editor and podcast host Iona Italia talks with speaker, DJ, and quadruple amputee Tom Nash about his new book, ‘Hook, Line, and Sinner.’
  • Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children
    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
  • Tracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (Formerly) Known as Wokeness
    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 mantras—and how we can help lead progressives back to their liberal roots.
  • Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl
    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 controversial and ultimately unsuccessful gender-reassignment following a botched circumcision.The book delves into the psychological, ethical, and medical complexities of David's life, from the surgical accident and subsequent interventions to his struggle with his gender identity. It also serves as a critique of Dr. John Money's theories on gender plasticity and the ethics of imposing a gender identity on a child unable to provide informed consent.Colapinto interviews various people involved in the case, including David Reimer himself, his family, and professionals who later questioned Money's work. The book paints a detailed picture of the Reimer family's ordeal, David's internal struggles, and the professional controversies that the case stirred up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious Movements
    Indian-Canadian podcast host Kushal Mehra interviews Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the radicalized beliefs and usettling rituals that now characterize performative progressive politics in Canada and the rest of the Western world.
  • Talking Science and Substacking in ‘Nash Vegas‘
    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 Stand.’
  • When DEI ‘Training’ Becomes a Pretext for Bullying and Harassment: A Tragic Canadian Case Study
    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
    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.
  • Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism
    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.
  • Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist
    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.
  • Whom is the Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Industry Actually Helping?
    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic Magazine writer Conor Friedersdorf about his recent article, “The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege”