Quillette Narrated
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 166
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
'The Weak Horse' by Brian Stewart
Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.
00:14:27 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
'Anti-Zionism’s German Roots' by Gerfried Ambrosch
While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.
00:20:04 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
'Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess' by Iona Italia
While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.
00:21:57 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
'Tyranny Is Not What It Used to Be' by Brian Stewart
In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time.
00:15:17 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist by Coel Hellier.
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 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
Roald Dahl and the Ethics of Art by Iona Italia
The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable.
00:20:40 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
Sage of Sex and Psyche by Steven Pinker
Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).
00:22:02 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.
00:16:41 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
'Jesus Wasn't Palestinian' by John Aziz
Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history.
00:10:21 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
'The Baby Gate: A Memoir' by Steve Salerno
So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email.
00:40:02 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
'The Language of Soviet Propaganda' by Izabella Tabarovsky
Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
00:26:22 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
'Burning the Quran' by John Aziz
Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms?
00:09:21 |
Thu 06 Feb 2025
'Australia's Anti-Semitism Crisis' by Claire Lehmann
Claire Lehmann discusses the aftermath of a firebombing at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne and the perceived leadership failures in Australia relating to antisemitism. Lehmann argues that the…
00:09:53 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
'Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing' by Pascal Bruckner
Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.
00:40:55 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
'The Ceasefire Deal' by Benny Morris
As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear.
00:20:06 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
'Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him' by Jonathan Kay
Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.
00:13:34 |
Thu 16 Jan 2025
'This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism' by John Aziz
Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.
00:11:05 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
'Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare' by Jonathan Kay
In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror.
00:22:12 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
'Savage Entertainment' by Jaspreet Singh Boparai
A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history.
00:50:43 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
'Divorce and the Silver Bullet' by James C. Coren
False allegations may be employed by either parent, but, given the prevailing winds of culture, the gun is far more often in the hand of a woman.
00:19:31 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
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