Jacob Mchangama on His New Book, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media"
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Copenhagen-based think-tank scholar and podcaster Jacob Mchangama about why so many human societies have a difficult time tolerating dissent and heresy ...
7 Maalis 202236min
Chris Best on Substack's Commitment to Free Speech
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Substack's founder and CEO about empowering writers through free expression (and his company's new, foosball-table-free San Francisco offices) Learn more a...
27 Helmi 202230min
Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' Protesters, in Their Own Words
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Paisley and Jay VanderWier, two of the many ordinary working-class Canadians who’ve assembled in Ottawa to protest restrictive government COVID po...
15 Helmi 202241min
Christopher J. Ferguson on Racist Orcs, Ableist Adventures, and Non-Binary Monsters: Can 'Dungeons & Dragons' Survive Wokeness?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychology professor Christopher J. Ferguson about his newly published academic paper, "Are Orcs Racist? Dungeons and Dragons, Ethnocentrism, Anxiety, and ...
31 Tammi 202245min
Michael Shermer: Watching 'Scientific American' Go Woke
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to book author and Skeptic editor Michael Shermer about why scientific media, professional organizations, and academic departments are increasingly succumbing...
17 Tammi 202250min
New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat on His Hellish Experience with Lyme Disease
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat about how his new book—which explores both his own fight against chronic Lyme disease, and the controversy...
4 Tammi 202249min
Jonathan Kay on Middle Age, Watch Collecting, Sports Cars, Board Games, and Disc Golf
Quillette's Jonathan Kay ends 2021 by speaking to Bob Tarantino about the things he does when he isn't hosting the Quillette podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 Joulu 202130min
Paul Lockhart on How Guns Transformed Western Civilization
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Wright State University professor Paul Lockhart about the enormous military and political upheavals set in motion by the adoption of gunpowder-based wea...
20 Joulu 202133min
