Coleman Hughes talks to Jonathan Kay about what it was like testifying to Congress about reparations and the reaction his testimony has received. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 22, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Siberium talk to Toby Young about the conservative manifesto buried just beneath the surface of Avengers: Endgame . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 19, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Kathrine Jebsen Moore talks to Jonathan Kay about how the Instagram knitting community has been torn apart by Social Justice mobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 14, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Sky Gilbert, gay playwright and drag queen, talks to Jonathan Kay about the history of Canada's gay community and being excommunicated by the LGBT theater company he founded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 07, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Eric Kaufmann, author of Whiteshift , and Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, talk to Toby Young about the European election results. Is national populism in decline? If not, how concerned should we be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 28, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Voice actor Greg Ellis talks to Jonathan Kay about working with the producers of Dragon Age , Call of Duty and God of War , and the difference between voicing video game characters and cartoon characters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 23, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford, talks to Toby Young about his experience of being mobbed by his colleagues. They discuss what motivates academic outrage mobs and what can be done to defend free speech at British and American universities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 15, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Doriane Lambelet Coleman, the 800m-runner-turned-academic, talks to Jonathan Kay about the Court of Arbitration for Sport's rejection of Caster Semenya's appeal. As a result of the decision, Semenya will not be able to compete in women's middle distance events unless she chemically alters her testosterone level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 10, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Clint Margrave and Timothy Green, two poets, talk to Jonathan Kay about the shunning of fellow poet Frank Sherlock after he confessed to having been in a skinhead band in the 1980s. Clint Margrave recently wrote an article about Frank Sherlock's public shaming for Quillette . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 03, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Journalist and broadcaster Claire Fox talks to Toby Young about being a Brexit Party candidate in the forthcoming European Parliament election. How did a former Communist become a candidate for a populist, right-of-centre party? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 30, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Coleman Hughes talks to Jonathan Kay about his latest Quillette article, which concerns an allegedly racist incident at Barnard College. Coleman, who is an undergraduate at Columbia, doesn't think the Barnard employees involved are guilty of racism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 23, 2019•23 min•Season 1Ep. 29
stand-up comedian Jamie Kilstein talks to Jonathan Kay about leaving the Social Justice Left, having Robin Williams as a patron, and his new, non-tribal, un-woke podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 19, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Sir Roger Scruton, the conservative philosopher, talks to Toby Young about getting sacked as an advisor to the British Government after making some politically incorrect remarks, and the implications of his defenestration for intellectual freedom more widely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 15, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University, talks to Jonathan Kay about the limits of libertarianism, viewpoint diversity in Washington, D.C., and Marginal Revolution University, his new online education venture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 11, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Robert Tombs, Cambridge history professor, talks to Toby Young about why he supports Brexit, why so many of his colleagues don't, whether the English intelligentsia's loathing of their country is a uniquely English characteristic and what their reaction is likely to be if the U.K. does eventually leave the European Union. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 03, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Rob Montz, the Washington, DC-based documentarian who has made a succession of slick, entertaining videos about the free speech crisis engulfing America's universities, talks to Jonathan Kay. You can see some of Rob's videos, with some additional commentary from Jon, on Quillette 's website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 29, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Six months ago, Catholic journalist Caroline Farrow appeared on a TV show called Good Morning Britain to debate Susie Green, a trans activist. That led to a chain of events that saw Caroline being investigated by the British police for misgendering Susie's daughter Jackie, a transwoman who was born male and underwent sexual reassignment surgery in Thailand at the age of 16. She talks to Toby Young about this ordeal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 26, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 23
liberal Muslim Irshad Manji talks to Jonathan Kay about her new book Don't Label Me in which she urges all sides in the culture wars to listen more carefully to each other. She also reflects on the journey she's been on, from an aggressive combatant in various debates to reflective participant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 20, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Andrew Doyle, stand-up comedian and Spiked-online columnist, talks to Toby Young about Titania McGrath, his satirical creation on Twitter who describes herself as a "radical intersectionalist poet committed to feminism, social justice and armed peaceful protest." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 13, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Jonathan Kay talks to Kay Xander Mellish, author of How to Live in Denmark (2014) and How to Work in Denmark (2018) about the recent Amnesty International report claiming Denmark has a "pervasive rape culture," as well as what it's like living in the country ranked number two in the world for gender equality and why a female-led, right-wing political party is on the rise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 07, 2019•19 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Bo Winegard, long-standing Quillette contributor and assistant psychology professor, talks to Toby Young about three of his articles: On the Reality of Race and the Abhorrence of Racism , Centrism: A Moderate Manifesto and The Great Awokening . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 27, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Mary Hudson, a former teacher in New York's public high school system, talks to Quillette 's Jonathan Kay about how black students are being let down by school leaders and administrators who are afraid to discipline unruly children for fear of being accused of racism. This conversation follows Hudson's article on the subject for Quillette . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Feb 21, 2019•17 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Brian Amerige, a former software engineer at Facebook, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the company's content moderation policy and why it is making a mistake in trying to prohibit hate speech. This conversation follows Amerige's article on the subject for Quillette . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Feb 19, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Matthew Goodwin, professor of politics at the University of Kent and co-author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberalism , talks to Quillette 's Toby Young about Brexit, Trump, the rise of national populism in Europe and America, and what its impact is likely to be on the future of social democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 14, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Skeptic editor Michael Shermer talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Holocaust denialists, Social Justice Warriors, the importance of bringing reason and science to bear on political debates, and why it is that smart people believe dumb things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 07, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Kat Rosenfield, young-adult author and prolific vlogger and journalist, talks to Quillette 's Jonathan Kay about Amélie Wen Zhao, a YA writer who's withdrawn her debut novel Blood Heir after being mobbed for allegedly breaching various politically correct protocols that all YA authors, including people of color, are expected to observe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 01, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Bill Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard , talks to Quillette 's Jonathan Kay about the future of journalism, conservative politics and the stars who emerged from his magazine's pages, including David Brooks, John Podhoretz and Christopher Caldwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 29, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Listen to the speeches made at Quillette 's party in Toronto by Quillette founder Claire Lehmann, stand-up comic Jamie Kilstein, Skeptic editor Michael Shermer, Quillette 's Canadian editor Jonathan Kay, author and philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers and Quillette 's associate editor Toby Young. Thanks to Holding Space Films for supplying us with the audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 24, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker talks to Quillette 's Jonathan Kay talks to about his book Enlightenment Now and why the critics who took him to task for celebrating the Enlightenment are wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 14, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Jesse Singal, a New York-based writer, talks to Quillette 's Jonathan Kay about the reaction to his controversial cover story for The Atlantic about transgender adolescents. Among other things, Singal interviewed a number of adults who have "detransitioned"—had a change of heart about switching genders after undergoing irreversible medical procedures. This provoked accusations of "transphobia" from trans activists, who argued that highlighting these cases would make parents and mental health pro...
Jan 11, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 10