Beste Quillette Podcasts (2025)

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Jihadism Is the Problem 13:15

22h ago13:15

13:15

The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.Von Quillette

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The Scourge of the ‘Woke Right’ 35:33

4d ago35:33

35:33

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author and satirist Andrew Doyle about the worrying rise of illiberal ideologies and cultish political tendencies among conservatives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Quillette

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The Fugitive Mind 1:27:01

4d ago1:27:01

1:27:01

My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.Von Quillette

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How to Tell if You’re Living in a Patriarchy 26:14

5d ago26:14

26:14

Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.Von Quillette

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The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die by Kevin Mims 41:29

5d ago41:29

41:29

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

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The Open Society and Its New Enemies 50:02

6d ago50:02

50:02

What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.Von Quillette

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Anti-Zionism, Past and Present 15:38

11d ago15:38

15:38

Quillette’s Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to scholar Izabella Tabarovsky about the Soviet roots of contemporary anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Quillette

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Against the Death Penalty 13:49

12d ago13:49

13:49

The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.Von Quillette

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Stalin, Putin, and the Corruption of History 21:26

12d ago21:26

21:26

The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.Von Quillette

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What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction? 5:41

14d ago5:41

5:41

Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.Von Quillette

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On Book Banning 26:05

17d ago26:05

26:05

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with book author Ira Wells about the censorship demands emanating from both sides of the political spectrum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Quillette

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The Tyranny of Fragility 15:43

18d ago15:43

15:43

How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.Von Quillette

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Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist 21:01

19d 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.Von Quillette

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A Kinder, Gentler Eliminationism 33:26

19d ago33:26

33:26

Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.Von Quillette

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Christianity and the American Polity 15:18

26d ago15:18

15:18

Iona Italia talks to Brookings Institution senior fellow Jonathan Rauch about his latest book, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Quillette

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Australia’s Antisemitism Crisis 15:25

1M ago15:25

15:25

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesVon Quillette

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Israel–Gaza: A War Between Cousins by John Aziz 12:15

1M ago12:15

12:15

Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.Von Quillette

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Demystifying Critical Race Theory by Josh Yuter 33:45

1M ago33:45

33:45

Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.Von Quillette

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Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution by Thomas F. Powers 1:18:22

1M ago1:18:22

1:18:22

Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.Von Quillette

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Universities Are Worth Saving by Jonathan Rauch 24:53

1M ago24:53

24:53

Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.Von Quillette

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

1M 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.Von Quillette

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The Great Divergence 17:40

2M 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/adchoicesVon Quillette

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'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke 5:45

2M ago5:45

5:45

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

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

2M ago9:26

9:26

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

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

2M 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.Von Quillette

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

2M 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.Von Quillette

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'The Weak Horse' by Brian Stewart 14:27

2M ago14:27

14:27

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

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

2M 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.Von Quillette

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

2M 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.Von Quillette

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

2M 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.Von Quillette

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

2M 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.Von Quillette

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

2M ago20:40

20:40

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

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Sage of Sex and Psyche by Steven Pinker 22:02

2M ago22:02

22:02

Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).Von Quillette

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

2M 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.Von Quillette

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

2M 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.Von Quillette

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

2M 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/adchoicesVon Quillette

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

2M ago26:22

26:22

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

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'Burning the Quran' by John Aziz 9:21

2M 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?Von Quillette

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

2M 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

2M 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/adchoicesVon Quillette

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Ancient Australians 18:31

2M 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/adchoicesVon Quillette

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