Quillette Narrated
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 166
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Truth Telling and Colonial History
The colonisation of Australia was neither a "peaceful settlement" nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agricul…
00:27:29 |
Mon 19 May 2025
Scientology’s War on Psychiatry
What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted?
00:30:27 |
Wed 14 May 2025
Our Glorious Unhead of State
The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state.
00:07:03 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Lessons from the Last Empire of Iran
Despite the uncertainties and tensions that characterize modern political life, we would do well to remember that the future we want is never the future we actually get, and that civilisation will ou…
00:17:30 |
Mon 12 May 2025
The Thunder from Down Under
If Bach was the sound of God whistling while he worked, AC/DC was the sound of God ordering another round in a strip club on Saturday night.
00:14:47 |
Fri 09 May 2025
For Our Own Good, We All Need a Glimpse of the Evil Queen
I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue.
00:17:55 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance
Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.
00:10:55 |
Thu 08 May 2025
When Good Academics Do Bad Things
In a speech at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, Jonathan Kay shared insights from investigating a controversy at the university's teachers college. The story involves Margaret Munn,…
00:26:22 |
Tue 06 May 2025
The Settlers: An Incomplete Portrayal
Louis Theroux’s new documentary suggests that he is unfamiliar with the complex history behind the Israeli occupation of The West Bank, and does not understand the political and ideological factors a…
00:11:29 |
Tue 06 May 2025
The Fight for Academic Freedom in the UK
How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.
01:03:05 |
Mon 05 May 2025
Disuniting Australia
What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?
00:31:04 |
Fri 02 May 2025
'The Language of Soviet Propaganda' by Izabella Tabarovsky
Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
00:05:51 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Ghosts of Electricity
The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’
00:15:17 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Hamas Should Never Be Decriminalised
The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.
00:11:34 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus
Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.
01:34:51 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
'The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case' by Andrew Hammel
A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.
01:17:02 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Does TED Still Make Sense?
Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.
00:16:29 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Revisiting ‘Wake in Fright’, A Peculiarly Australian Kind of Hell
Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart.
00:25:39 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
Australia's Population Ponzi Scheme
The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.
00:05:38 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Marxism: The Idea That Refuses to Die
Its ability to churn out such plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.
00:21:53 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
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