Quillette Narrated
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 166
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had
Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale.
00:22:29 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
His Satanic Majesty Retires
A tribute to the man who helped to revolutionise modern rock music and reality TV.
00:19:41 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
The Vanishing of Peng Shuai
Whatever really happened between Zhang and Peng, the truth is that they were both already victims, having been raised in a society that completely denies the importance of the individual.
00:09:25 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Why the Islamic Republic Must Fall
As a dissident Iranian, I support Israel’s efforts to weaken the Ayatollahs’ regime. I’m not alone in this.
By Armin Navabi.
00:17:08 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
The Soldier and the Revolutionary
The contrasting lives and ambitions of two major figures in the fight for Indian Independence: General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya (“Timmy”) and Subhas Chandras Bose.
00:50:19 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Too Much Monkey Business
The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today.
00:33:45 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Glamourising Violence at Glastonbury
Bob Vylan’s “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury reveal how Britain’s economic despair has radicalised a generation and threatens to revive ancient hatreds.
00:12:43 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
Are We Dating the Same Guy?
Women create whisper networks to keep themselves safe from antisocial male behaviour. But unfortunately, such networks can be highjacked by our antisocial female peers. By Amy Eileen Hamm
00:07:28 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
Red Spies and Lies
Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.
00:40:30 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Traitors to the Human Mind
As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane.
00:21:10 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
The Teaching Problem
The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model.
00:29:22 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Conflicting Visions of Peace
Netanyahu’s Nobel Prize gesture masks serious diplomatic divisions over Iran’s nuclear programme and the future of Gaza’s devastated population.
Benny Morris
00:13:22 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Gonzo Bros
Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.
00:47:40 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
Purity, Profit, and Politics
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
00:39:41 |
Sun 06 Jul 2025
'Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello' by Helen Pluckrose
Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day.
00:32:11 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
Intersectionality’s Cosmic Inquisitor
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back.
00:56:04 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
Gentrifying the Intifada
Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism appeals to the luxury beliefs of New York’s middle classes. If his preferred policies are implemented, New Yorkers will suffer—and the poorest of them will be most…
00:12:31 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
A Fragile Peace: Iran-Israel Update
The Israel-Iran conflict may already be over, following the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But the future is deeply uncertain. By Benny Morris.
00:22:25 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
The Two Middle Classes
The struggle between the two middle classes is not just a matter of wealth and power, but also of retaining the social basis for democracy itself.
00:16:11 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
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