Quillette Podcast

Quillette

  • 52 minutes 22 seconds
    British Columbia’s Radical Political Landscape

    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with B.C. politician Dallas Brodie about why her province continues to promote dubious social-justice policies and myths—including the false claim that 215 dead Indigenous children were discovered four years ago in ‘unmarked graves.’

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    9 February 2026, 4:18 pm
  • 53 minutes 30 seconds
    The Demise of Private Life

    Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Tiffany Jenkins about her fascinating and provocative new history, 'Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.'

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    29 January 2026, 12:36 am
  • 34 minutes 53 seconds
    Understanding Journalistic Groupthink

    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Graham Majin about the recent scandal at the BBC, and the need for reporters to prevent the ‘poison of narrative’ from corrupting their craft


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    17 January 2026, 2:46 am
  • 15 minutes 1 second
    Fighting for Freedom in Iran

    Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Iranian writer and journalist Roya Hakakian about the protests in Iran and why and how they might succeed.

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    8 January 2026, 11:01 pm
  • 15 minutes 1 second
    How to Think Like a Human

    Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to psychologist David Weitzner about the differences between human cognition and artificial intelligence.

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    2 January 2026, 2:28 am
  • 31 minutes 8 seconds
    Christmas in Byzantium

    Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with History of Byzantium podcast host Robin Pierson about the Christian traditions and imperial culture that took root in the eastern half of the Roman Empire .

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    24 December 2025, 5:00 am
  • 31 minutes 11 seconds
    Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadian by Choice

    Prisoner #1056⁠ author Roy Ratnavel discusses his journey from a prison cell in war-torn Sri Lanka to the heights of Canada’s financial industry—and the (sometimes politically incorrect) lessons about race, immigration, and multiculturalism he’s learned along the way.

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    19 December 2025, 1:45 am
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    The Genius of Jane Austen

    Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Jane Austen scholar John Mullan to commemorate the 250th anniversary of her birth.

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    17 December 2025, 5:28 am
  • 15 minutes 23 seconds
    Marriage and Divorce in America

    Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger about trends in marriage, divorce, and maternity in the US from the 1950s to the present day.

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    4 December 2025, 11:24 pm
  • 46 minutes 20 seconds
    A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer Radicalism, and ‘Scrupulosity’

    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with writer Ben Appel about his new memoir, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic

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    30 November 2025, 8:58 pm
  • 52 minutes 39 seconds
    Jesse Brown’s Rude Awakening

    In an interview with Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay, Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown discusses how an anti-Israel faction within his own subscriber base tried to cancel him after he began speaking out about the rise of antisemitism.

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    21 November 2025, 5:21 am
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