Quillette Narrated
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 166
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Jihadism Is the Problem
The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating tur…
00:13:15 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
The Fugitive Mind
My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
01:27:01 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
How to Tell if You’re Living in a Patriarchy
Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.
00:26:14 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die by Kevin Mims
Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.
00:41:29 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
The Open Society and Its New Enemies
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
00:50:02 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Against the Death Penalty
The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.
00:13:49 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Stalin, Putin, and the Corruption of History
The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.
00:21:26 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction?
Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.
00:05:41 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
The Tyranny of Fragility
How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.
00:15:43 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist
The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.
00:21:01 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
Peter Beinart's Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Susie Lindfield
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
00:33:26 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
Israel–Gaza: A War Between Cousins by John Aziz
Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.
00:12:15 |
Thu 20 Feb 2025
Demystifying Critical Race Theory by Josh Yuter
Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.
00:33:45 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution by Thomas F. Powers
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
01:18:22 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Universities Are Worth Saving by Jonathan Rauch
Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.
00:24:53 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
'The Language of Sex' by Marilyn Simon
While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated.
00:18:27 |
Mon 17 Feb 2025
'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.
00:05:45 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future by Razib Khan
Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.
00:09:26 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter by Razib Khan
The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.
00:09:44 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
'Trump and the Academic Cocoon' by Heather Mac Donald
A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external…
00:19:51 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
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