Kat Rosenfield, young-adult author, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the recent mobbing of Amélie Wen Zhao, a YA writer forced to shelve her debut novel
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author and prolific vlogger and journalist, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Amélie Wen Zhao, a YA writer who's withdrawn her debut novel Blood Heir after being mobb...
1 Feb 201919min
Bill Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the state of conservative politics
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 Dav...
29 Jan 201929min
Speeches from the Quillette party in Toronto
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...
24 Jan 201926min
Professor Steven Pinker talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about what the critics of his book Enlightenment Now got wrong
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. Le...
14 Jan 201940min
Writer Jesse Singal talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the reaction to his controversial cover story for The Atlantic on trans adolescents
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 ...
11 Jan 201930min
Professor Jeff McMahan talks to Quillette's Toby Young about co-founding the Journal of Controversial Ideas
Jeff McMahan, professor of moral philosophy at Oxford and co-founder of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a new academic periodical in which contributors will be given the option of publishing their...
4 Jan 201952min
Corinna Cohn, a trans software developer, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why she dissents from Social Justice orthodoxy
Corinna Cohn, a trans woman and Indianapolis-based software developer who disagrees with Twitter's policy of banning users who "deadname" trans people and, more generally, doesn't believe she is oblig...
27 Des 201837min
Jonathan Church talks to Quillette's Toby Young about 'white privilege'
Jonathan Church, Quillette contributor and economist, talks to associate editor Toby Young about 'white privilege,' 'white fragility,' 'color-blind racism,' 'unconscious bias,' 'micro-aggressions' and...
20 Des 201826min
