Podcast Episodes

RFK Jr.’s Unprecedented Attack on Life-saving Vaccines

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Stanford University infectious diseases expert Jake Scott about the perils of rolling back immunization treatments for COVID, RSV, and Measles.

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Published on 12 hours ago

The Modular Mind

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist Rob Kurzban about his book Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind.

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Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Roya Hakakian about her extraordinary memoir, Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran.

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Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped Brain’?

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to linguist, mathematician, and tournament organizer John Chew about the world of ultra-elite Scrabble word-masters.

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Published on 3 weeks ago

Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity

Iona Italia talks to novelist and historian Nev March about how a series of landmark court cases in the 19th and 20th centuries upended both the Indian legal system and the Parsi community.

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Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

How LGB Became Estranged from T

Gay activist-turned-journalist Adam Zivo explains how radicalized forms of trans and queer advocacy became a liability to the once-united LGBT movement.

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Published on 1 month ago

War and the End of Empire

Iona Italia talks to historian and film-maker Phil Craig about the latest in his series of books about World War II: 1945: A Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World.

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Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

When Entertainment Reporting Gets Political

Quillette podcast host interviews veteran entertainment journalist Ben Mulroney—whose career has taken him to the Oscars red carpet and Kelly Ripa’s studio—about how ideological fads have damaged his…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The First Journalists

The philosopher Stephen Harrop interviews Quillette’s Managing Editor Iona Italia about her book Anxious Employment on the journalism of Enlightenment London.

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Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Social Work Without Stereotypes

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Heterodox Academy scholar Nafees Alam about the need to challenge political orthodoxies in the field of social work.

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Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago