Quillette Narrated
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 166
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Huxley, Burroughs, and the Church of Scientology
Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman.
00:20:54 |
Wed 17 Sep 2025
Brainrot, Not Ideology
The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth like Tyler Robinson more than ideology.
00:08:55 |
Mon 15 Sep 2025
Pride and Prejudice
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
00:29:31 |
Sun 14 Sep 2025
Gaza and the Collapse of Truth-Seeking
The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism by Gary Geipel.
00:14:00 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist
In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot.
00:48:02 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
Falling Fertility: A Crisis We Refuse to Face
Fertility decline is not merely a demographic curiosity—it is a structural challenge with civilisational implications. So why are people so reluctant to take it seriously?
By Andrew Glover
00:11:14 |
Sun 07 Sep 2025
In Defence of Absolute Truth
By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other.
00:30:02 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America
Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust.
00:11:55 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Fragments Against the Ruins
In his deliberately archaic new rendition of Homer’s epic, Jeffrey Duban takes a defiant stand against the modernisation of classical literature in defence of a disappearing tradition.
00:29:09 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
‘Shameless Beyond the Curse of Shamelessness’
In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into…
00:25:02 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Naive Protest and Calculated Terror
The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is ti…
00:07:38 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
Twilight of the Satyrs
Charlotte Allen examines how Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey's sexual misconduct allegations led to both men being cancelled and explores the broader cultural shift from the sexual liberation of …
00:49:08 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
The Limits of Radical Protest
Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements.
00:21:16 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Ancient DNA and the Return of a Disgraced Theory
This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better.
00:26:20 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
The Sensitivity Era
Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in p…
00:13:28 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell
Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.
00:13:02 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
The Problem Is Islam—Not Islamism
The problem here is not a subset of Islamic thought, but the fundamentals of Islam itself. By Obaid Omer
00:06:09 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Rethinking “Harm Reduction”
Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray.
00:30:49 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring
In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happe…
01:26:17 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Against Palestinian Statehood
Nurturing an alternative power structure in this kind of politically stunted society will be the work of generations. It can’t be summoned into existence by Western leaders seeking to appease domesti…
00:08:42 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
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