Renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Jonathan Kay about his Quillette essay Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem and explains why he expressed skepticism about the sincerity of the #strike4blacklives campaign supported by so many science organisations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 04, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Professor Eric Kaufmann talks to Toby Young about his Quillette essay The Great Awakening and the Second American Revolution . He believes American may be going through something akin to China's Cultural Revolution in which many aspects of American society, from the constitution to the name of the country, could change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 28, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Quillette contributor Helen Joyce talks to Jonathan Kay about the many ways in which gender ideologues have tied themselves in knots by trying to make the sisterhood more "inclusive". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 19, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Joel Kotkin, executive director of the Urban Reform Institute and author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism , talks to Toby Young about the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on American cities and the rioting that broke out following the death of George Floyd. Joel recently wrote about this in a piece entitled Pandemics and Pandemonium for Quillette . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jun 14, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Glenn Loury, a professor of economics at Brown University, talks to Jonathan Kay about the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. Professor Loury recently published a piece about this in Quillette entitled 'Condemn the Violence Without Equivocation.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 07, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Former Bush speech writer David From talks to Jonathan Kay about the damage done by the Trump presidency and the way forward for America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 04, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Writer and Journalist Cathy Young talks to Jonathan Kay about her investigations into Tara Reade’s evolving accusations against Joe Biden, and explains why the ranks of Reade’s supporters are shrinking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 29, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Thomas Hale, Associate Professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, talks to Jonathan Kay about a new research project aimed at comparing international policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 19, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 92
John Lloyd, co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, talks to Toby Young about the geopolitical fall-out from the coronavirus crisis. Will the Conservatives win the next UK election? Can the EU recover its authority? And is this China's Chernobyl? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 14, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Jennifer Abbasi, associate managing editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), talks to Jonathan Kay about new COVID-19 antibody tests that may help stop the pandemic and save the lives of those who are already infected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 30, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 90
Jonathan Kay, Canadian editor of Quillette , talks to associate editor Toby Young about his recent article on COVID-19 superspreaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 29, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 89
Nadia Guo, a sex worker and lawyer, talks to Jonathan Kay about the devastating impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the sex trade—although it's been great for the webcam business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 21, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Science writer, author and Skeptic editor-in-chief Michael Shermer talks to Toby Young about his new book Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist . They talk about a range of free speech issues, including hate speech, Holocaust denial, the Pentagon Papers and Wikileaks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 09, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Dr Jemma Geoghegan, a virologist at the University of Otago, talks to Jonathan Kay on how viruses evolve and the lessons we can learn about social distancing from fish, dogs and rabbits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 07, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Jonathan Kay about COVID-19, the triage decisions he's having to make and what we've learnt from China about how best to treat it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 01, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Kentucky State political science professor Wildred Reilly talks to Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About, as well as the "1776" project, which he's a contributor to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 27, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Science writer Matt Ridley talks to Toby Young about coronavirus, the prospects of finding a vaccine within the next 18 months, and his new book How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy, and the Saving of Time . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 17, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Andy Lamey, author of Duty and the Beast , explains why conservatives are starting to care about animal rights, not just liberals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 14, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Bo Winegard, long-standing Quillette contributor, has lost his job as an assistant professor at Marietta College. No reason was given, but he believes it's because his research interests included the genetic influence on psychological differences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 05, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes on why he and some other prominent black intellectuals have created the "1776" project, a response to the New York Times 's 1619 Project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 29, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 80
The late Canadian journalist Christie Blatchford gave a speech last year about the importance of due process and the dangers of the #MeToo moral panic. These are the edited highlights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 19, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony talks to Toby Young about the national conservatism conference in Rome and why British Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski should not have been reprimanded by his party for attending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 14, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Venture capitalist Michael Solana talks to Jonathan Kay about interstellar corporatocracy—and why we should welcome it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 09, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve , talks to Toby Young about his new book Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 28, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Patricia Marcoccia and Maziar Ghaderi of Holding Space Films talk to Jonathan kay about the time they spent chronicling the daily life of Canada’s most famous public intellectual—and how critics on both sides reacted to The Rise of Jordan Peterson . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 24, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time , talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 20, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Stand-up comedian and guest host Jamie Kilstein talks to comedy impresario Paul Provenza about Ricky Gervais's monologue at the Golden Globes and whether comedy is finally emerging from under a cloud of woke humourlessness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 18, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, talks to Toby Young about his lifelong friendship with the late Conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 13, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Harvard Historian James Hankins on what the great Renaissance humanists can teach us about virtue and statecraft. Plus: Why so many get Machiavelli wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 09, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Armando Simón, forensic psychologist and science writer, talks to Jonathan Kay about why it would be a mistake to try and put a man on Mars. Simón recently set out the case against a manned space flight to Mars in Quillette . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 04, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 70