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Quillette Narrated
by Quillette
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
Episodes
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Navi Pillay’s Nobel: A Threat to Genocide Law
Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize rewards a UN inquiry that accused Israel of genocide on thin evidence, and a bid to lower the legal bar for genocidal intent. By Normal J.W. Goda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Why the Catholic Church Is AI Doom’s Most Formidable Foe
Claire Lehmann argues that Anthropic’s approach to AI reflects an ideological movement shaped by effective altruism, whose adherents see themselves as saving humanity from existential catastrophe. Drawing parallels with historical apocalyptic religious movements, she warns that the conviction of...
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Archbishop of Canterbury Award Row and Interfaith Naivety
The Archbishop of Canterbury's award to a cleric who praised bin Laden was no one-off. Hardeep Singh on the Church of England's naive interfaith politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Last Ditch Bar's Mask Row Is Nothing New
The Last Ditch bar mask row is nothing new. Julie Bindel recalls 1980s lesbian feminism, when disability and illness became badges of authenticity and status. https://quillette.com/2026/09/28/lesbian-fragility-then-and-now/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Billy Bunter and the Feud George Orwell Lost
George Orwell attacked the Billy Bunter stories as snobbish propaganda. Their creator, Frank Richards, wrote back and won one of the few fights Orwell lost. Written by David Cohen, read by William Lang....
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What an Eighth Grader Taught Me About Status
Bio-cultural anthropologist, Robert Lynch, shares how an eighth grader's prank on a 510-million-year-old fossil changed his view on status and self-worth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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What 7 October Taught Me About Decolonisation: Maarten Boudry
A philosopher explains how 7 October exposed decolonisation as a dangerous, Manichaean ideology — not harmless academic theory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Inside Australia’s Black Market Tobacco Crisis
Australia’s war on tobacco created a $5.6B black market and a surge in gang violence. Written by Andrew Bushnell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I Chaired Canada's Human Rights Tribunal. Here's What I Saw.
During my time chairing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, I sometimes felt like the agent of a state-funded extortion ring, writes David Thomas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Menace of a Respectable Hatred
What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence? By Yuki Zeman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Never Neverland: What the Michael Jackson Biopic Leaves Out
As Michael Jackson's new biopic crosses $790 million at the box office, the allegations against him remain largely unaddressed by mainstream culture. In this long read for Quillette, Andrew Hammel examines the evidence methodically — the police searches at Neverland, the corroborated physical...
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The Enhanced Games: How to Take Drugs and Still Lose to High Schoolers
The Enhanced Games handed athletes a boatload of drugs. They still ran slower than high school boys, missed every world record, and proved that steroids can't replace talent plus daily boring work. Written by Steve Magness, a performance coach and the author of Do Hard Things. Learn more about…
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Intifadas Bring Neither Justice Nor Peace
Calls to “globalise the intifada” have produced a wave of antisemitic terror and encourage an unending cycle of violence. By John Aziz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Strange Bedfellows
The hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Once Upon a Time...Film Critics Became Joyless—A Review
Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Beautiful Visions
Van Morrison turns eighty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Many Faces of Tucker Carlson
A review of Jason Zengerle's biography of Tucker Carlson, tracing his fall from gifted journalist to antisemitic demagogue. By Graham Daseler. 00:00 — Carlson’s childhood debate (playing Carter vs Reagan) 01:16 — Introduction to Zengerle’s book Hated by All the Right People 01:52 — Lesson:...
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The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan
Aaron Magid's biography examines how Jordan's King Abdullah has navigated 25 years of regional turmoil through Western alliances and survival. Written by Michael M. Rosen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Kissinger and Cambodia
Henry Kissinger’s policies influenced Cambodia’s fate, but they alone did not cause the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Erasing the Word 'Woman'
This presentation is written and narrated by Dr Karleen Gribble, a researcher specialising in maternal and child health with particular expertise in breastfeeding and lactation policy. Dr Gribble argues that the replacement of sex-based language like "women," "mothers," and "breastfeeding" with...
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Progressive Moral Reasoning and Iran’s Revolt
Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order. By Roohola Ramezani Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Islamism: Shooting the Messenger
The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Mediocrity Feedback Loop
If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Sexual Paradise That Never Was
How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Forgotten Ford
Before Han Solo and Indiana Jones, there was another Harrison Ford, a star of silent cinema. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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ICE Crackdown Backfires Like Daryl Gates' LAPD Era
The article "Who Got the Camera?" by Dilan Esper recalls Los Angeles policing debates in the 1980s-90s: high crime (gangs, drugs, homelessness) versus claims of LAPD brutality under Chief Daryl Gates, who treated policing like war and used extreme tactics. It details the 1991 Rodney King…
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Censoring John and Yoko
A new boxset edits out one of John Lennon’s most controversial songs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Gentle Wildness of Tasmania
Tasmania has all the majesty of other windswept high-latitude places, but it has always been less barren, more hospitable, more generous in its beauty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Among Savage Tribes
Napoleon Chagnon documented a society in which violent men enjoyed greater reproductive and marital success. Some of his academic colleagues never forgave him for it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Warmth of Collectivism
Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sad Radicals
As radicals, we lived in what I call a paradigm of suspicion, one of the malignant ideas that emerge as a result of intellectual in-breeding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Yukio Mishima: Japan’s Cultural Martyr
Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Bondi Attack Exposes Australia's Multicultural Blind Spot
The Bondi terrorist attack reveals how Australia's reluctance to discuss Islamic antisemitism and ideological motivations undermines cohesion. By Alan Davison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Infinite Reopening of History
Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Game, Set, Match
Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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To Winter, With Love
The cold allows me to feel alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Hatred We Must Name
We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price. By Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Bondi Was Not a Surprise
The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable. By Jack Pinczewski Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The New Information Wars
Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray Blanchard
Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Iran's Two Ticking Clocks
While the nuclear breakout clock ticks, time may also be expiring on the Ayatollah regime’s grip on the region. The two countdowns are interconnected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ancient Indian Tradition—Or Twentieth-Century European Export?
Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Melbourne Crimewave
Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice. By Andrew Bushnell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Easy Rider: 50 Years Looking for America—A Review
Easy Rider is an important movie—much more important than a simple measure of its quality would suggest—which is probably why the American Film Institute, among others, continues to rate it so highly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Murder of Iryna Zarutska
Jukka Savolainen 's article "The Murder of Iryna Zarutska — Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?" on Quillette explores the reasons behind the heightened attention the murder of Iryna Zarutska received in conservative circles and the muted...
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Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time
The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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We Need to Talk About Trans-Identified Killers
The list of violent criminals who imagine they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is growing. By Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Fleeing South Africa
The situation of South African “whites” is worse than Donald Trump's critics are willing to acknowledge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Two Hundred Years of Stendhal
2022 marked the bicentennial of the pseudonym’s transformation from literary dabbler into one of the greatest novelists of the modern age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Making Fiction Boring
The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books. By Adam Szetela Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
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