Quillette Podcast
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- 31 minutes 8 secondsChristmas 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 secondsSri 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 minutesThe 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 secondsMarriage 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 secondsA 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 secondsJesse 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 - 37 minutes 19 secondsAncient Christianities: The First 500 Years
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with biblical scholar Paula Fredriksen, whose new book describes the theological diversity that existed among Christian communities before Nicene Christianity was adopted as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century.
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13 November 2025, 3:20 pm - 53 minutes 21 secondsFinding Humor in Dark Places
Quillette podcast host speaks with Healing Roar founder and comedian Matthew Pettit, who candidly tells audiences about the severe childhood abuse that once propelled him into a life of sexual confusion, meth addiction, crime, and incarceration.
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10 November 2025, 4:51 am - 14 minutes 20 secondsA Crisis of Tolerance
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Harry Saul Markham about the increasingly acute threat of Islamism in the UK and the normalisation of virulent antisemitism among British Muslims.
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5 November 2025, 10:00 pm - 33 minutes 47 secondsIs There a Politically Motivated ‘War on Science’? (And If So, Who’s Waging It?)
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss about his latest book project, in which renowned scholars speak out about threats to open inquiry and the scientific process.
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1 November 2025, 12:53 pm - 14 minutes 35 secondsMachetes in Melbourne
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to criminal justice researcher Andrew Bushnell about the many causes of the recent surge in crime in Melbourne.
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