Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Hawaii professor Ashley Rubin, co-author of the recently published Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences.

00:00 Introduction: the Vanderbilt report

02:30 Do professional associations speak for the field?

05:35 What gets on the conference programme—and what doesn't

06:10 Why everyone picks on sociologists

08:05 The variables you're not allowed to test

11:15 "Prisoner resistance": how a concept got out of hand

14:00 A Marxist editor and the fear of seeming conservative

17:25 What the report does and doesn't claim

18:50 The Yale trust report and grade inflation

22:40 Activists, ringleaders and the silent majority

25:50 Inside the ASA boycott

28:45 Should sociology split into parties?

31:50 Durkheim on why disciplines need shared rules

34:30 Authoritarianism from your own side

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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Debra Soh, author of Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy, about neuroscience, hypergamy, elephant seals, politicised sex research, the perils of polyamory, and the sex-repellent scourge of ’phubbing.’

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Jonathan Kay speaks with Aaron Pete, leader of the Chawathil First Nation in British Columbia, about his community’s socioeconomic challenges, intra-Indigenous politics, the legacy of residential schools, and progressive taboos surrounding of “unmarked graves.”

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Mia Hughes and Stella O'Malley of the Beyond Gender podcast interview Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the progressive ideological manias spawned during the Justin Trudeau years.

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Iona Italia talks to lawyer and historian Adam Wakeling about the enduring importance of Enlightenment values and how to defend them today.

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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Kathleen Stock about her new book, Do Not Go Gentle—in which she argues that governments should be denied any institutional role in facilitating the death of their citizens.

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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale Law School professor Sarath Sanga, co-author of a surprisingly candid new ⁠report⁠ explaining why the American public is losing trust in the country’s colleges and universities.

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Senior Writer and Podcast Producer Iona Italia talks to writer Phoebe Maltz Bovy about her latest book: 'The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men.'

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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, who encourages Jews to focus on bolstering their community instead of lecturing right-wing bigots and progressive political extremists who can’t be reasoned with.

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Iona Italia talks to writer Freya India about her book 'Girls: Gen Z and the Commodification of Everything.'

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Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock about her new CBC/BBC documentary, Speechless—which explores the rise of censorship and mobbings on campus. 

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