Cult Expert and Deprogrammer Rick Ross on NXIVM, Founder Keith Raniere, And the Many Tactics Cults Use to Exploit the Unwary
Rick Ross, executive director of the Cult Education Institute, speaks with Jonathan Kay about infamous cult leader (and now convicted felon) Keith Raniere, who spent 14 years suing Ross for telling th...
26 Okt 202042min
Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about intellectual conformity, being a lockdown sceptic and her new book
Literary superstar Lionel Shriver shares her thoughts about the pandemic, the rush to embrace Covid orthodoxy by politicians and scientists and the suppression of dissenting voices by big tech and the...
26 Okt 202040min
Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into Social-Justice Extremism—And How She Escaped
Jonathan Kay speaks with Stanford University student and autism activist Lucy Kross Wallace about her former life as a militant social-justice activist—and what she learned about a movement that she n...
20 Okt 202032min
Asra Nomani on the Collateral Damage Inflicted on Asian-American Students by Critical Race Theorists
Jonathan Kay talks to writer Asra Nomani about the campaign to end race-neutral admissions testing at Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, America’s best public high school—and the disturbing att...
16 Okt 202030min
Stuart Buck on How COVID-19 Has Exposed the Shortfalls of Scientific Peer Review
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to Stuart Buck about how the rapid pace of COVID-19 science has exposed longstanding problems with the methods we use to validate scientific research Learn more abo...
10 Okt 202024min
Cellist Daniel Lelchuk on How Beethoven’s Genius Flourished in Napoleon’s World
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to concert cellist Daniel Lelchuk about the timeless, global appeal of Beethoven—and the turbulent historical world that inspired the great German composer’s works....
3 Okt 202030min
Economist Jeff Rubin on the Plight of Today’s Middle-Class ‘Expendables’
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to economist-turned-author Jeff Rubin about his new book, The Expendables How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization—and the devastating consequences of glob...
25 Sep 202030min
Sex Neuroscientist Debra Soh talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her new book, The End of Gender
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to scientist and author Dr Debra Soh about the misinformation being peddled to young people about biological sex and transition—and the most humane ways to help peo...
19 Sep 202034min
