Quillette Narrated
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 166
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
'The Return of the Progressive Atrocity' by Susie Linfield
'The Return of the Progressive Atrocity: It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes th…
00:37:47 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
'In Defence of Stoicism' by Iona Italia.
'In Defence of Stoicism' by Iona Italia. Narrated by Iona Italia. Stoicism is a workout that builds emotional strength, a caulking of the timbers to enable us to weather the coming storms—a preparati…
00:40:00 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
'Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror' by Cathy Young.
'Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror' by Cathy Young. Read by William Laing.
00:39:54 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
'The Totalitarian Artist' by Megan Gafford
'The Totalitarian Artist: Politics vs Beauty: After Duchamp, the art world came to view the pursuit of beauty as naïve and gravitated toward political art in their search for meaning. But this is a F…
00:43:14 |
Tue 24 Sep 2024
'Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary' by Benny Morris
'Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary' by Benny Morris. Published in Quillette.com on 19 September 2024. Narrated by Iona Italia.
00:26:44 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
'Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments' by Greg Lukianoff
'Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments: How to effectively counter some perennial arguments against free speech.' Written by Greg Lukianoff. Narrated by Iona Italia.
00:20:25 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
'A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology' by Paul Berman
Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.
01:05:44 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary by Richard Dawkins.
Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary by Richard Dawkins, read by Iona Italia. Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies.
00:18:25 |
Fri 06 Sep 2024
'The Professor, His Nemesis, and a Scandal at Oberlin' by Roya Hakakian
The story of how a liberal college promoted and defended an Iranian Islamist and betrayed its own values.
00:50:26 |
Thu 29 Aug 2024
'Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of Trans Inclusion' by Joan Smith
00:24:12 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
'Empathy for the Devil' by Matt Johnson
Realists may believe international relations is all about mindless forces balancing and smashing into each other, but it’s actually about ideology, institutions, history, and the personalities of hum…
00:35:45 |
Thu 01 Aug 2024
The New Political Christianity
Western civilisation has not succeeded because its liberal and secular principles are Christian; it has succeeded because Western Christians have accepted its liberal and secular values, writes Adam …
00:13:53 |
Sun 28 Jul 2024
'The German Left's Jewish Dilemma' by Gerfried Ambrosch
Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals.
00:20:25 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time by Frank Celia
The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.
Zoe Booth reads 'Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time' by Frank Celia. …
00:27:45 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
'Unbowed But Gravely Wounded' by Paul Berman
Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, Knife, describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality.
00:25:57 |
Mon 03 Jun 2024
How French Intellectuals Ruined the West
Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained.
Iona Italia reads 'How French Intellectuals Ruined the West' by Helen Pluckrose. First published in Areo Magazine. Republished in Quillette on 7 May 2024.
00:31:58 |
Wed 08 May 2024
Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge
Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history.
00:43:40 |
Thu 25 Apr 2024
'Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022)' by Charlotte Allen
A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.
01:03:49 |
Mon 15 Apr 2024
'Toward Ruin or Recovery?' by Larissa Phillips
The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.
00:57:42 |
Thu 11 Apr 2024
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