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Lingnan University scholar Peter Baehr on Academic Life Within Hong Kong’s Increasingly Repressive Political Atmosphere

A Short Message From Quillette: Here's How to Help Us Make Our Podcast Better

Bernard Lane on the Fight for a More Balanced Approach Toward Children and Teens Seeking Medicalized Gender Change

Richard Hanania on the Real Reason Progressives Are Winning the Culture War: They Just Want It More

Michael Shellenberger on the Case for Nuclear Power, Progressive Hypocrisy on Energy Policy, and His New book, ‘Apocalypse Never’

Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’

James Kirchick on 'The Disintegration of the ACLU'

Daphne Merkin on the Baseless Abuse Claims Against Woody Allen—And Why The Media Refuses to Let Them Die

Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten on Portland's Descent Into Violence—And Why They Finally Decided to Flee

Psychiatrist Andrew Lustig on the Conspiracist Internet Subculture of ‘Gangstalking’

Evolutionary Psychologist (and Twitter Hit Man) Gad Saad on the ‘Cesspool’ in Academia, Hollywood’s Man-Children, and His New Book, ‘The Parasitic Mind’

Andrew Doyle—The Brain Behind Titania McGrath—on His New (And Very Serious) Book, ‘Free Speech And Why It Matters’

Literary Critic (and Sopranos Cameo Actor) Leon Wieseltier on His New Magazine, the Meaning of Forgiveness, and His Favorite Car-Chase Movies

Sociologist Nathalie Heinich on French Academics' Opposition to America's Race-Based Ideologies

Social Media Network Creator Brian Amerige: If You Could Create a New Network from Scratch, What Would It Look Like?

Minds.Com CEO Bill Ottman on Censorship, ‘Algorithmic Transparency,’ and the Post-Trump Social-Media Landscape

John McWhorter on the Ideological Excesses of the Social-Justice Movement

Cheri Jacobus on How Donald Trump Used Twitter to Destroy People’s Lives (Including Hers)

Philippe Lemoine on the Case for Lockdown Skepticism

Professor Tania Reynolds on the Controversy Over Female Mentorship in Academia

Toby Young on the Free Speech Union, and His Campaign Against Cancel Culture

Oren Cass on the Conservative Case for Labor Unions

Nicholas Christakis on His New Book, ‘Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound And Enduring Impact of Coronavirus On The Way We Live’

Historian Benny Morris on the Turks’ Forgotten 19th-Century Genocide of Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian Christians

Abigail Shrier on Her New Book About Peer Contagion and Gender Dysphoria

Yale School of Public Health Professor David Paltiel on Computer Modelling COVID-19 Vaccination Programs

Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’

Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras

Jeffrey Flier, Former Dean of Harvard Medical School, on This Week’s Good News About the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Jamil Jivani on the Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters

Jodi Shaw on a Climate of Fear at Smith College, Following Unproven Racism Accusations

Cult Expert and Deprogrammer Rick Ross on NXIVM, Founder Keith Raniere, And the Many Tactics Cults Use to Exploit the Unwary

Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about intellectual conformity, being a lockdown sceptic and her new book

Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into Social-Justice Extremism—And How She Escaped

Asra Nomani on the Collateral Damage Inflicted on Asian-American Students by Critical Race Theorists

Stuart Buck on How COVID-19 Has Exposed the Shortfalls of Scientific Peer Review

Cellist Daniel Lelchuk on How Beethoven’s Genius Flourished in Napoleon’s World

Economist Jeff Rubin on the Plight of Today’s Middle-Class ‘Expendables’

Sex Neuroscientist Debra Soh talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her new book, The End of Gender

Think Inc founder Suzi Jamil talks to Quillette's Claire Lehmann about their new collaboration – Free Thought Live

Psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed talks to Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann about His New Book, In Defence of Shame

Substack founder Chris Best is interviewed by Jonathan Kay about how email newsletters are saving journalism

Conservative intellectual Douglas Murray talks to Toby Young about the newly emboldened hard left and why the silent majority needs to speak up

Trans porn star Buck Angel talks to Jonathan Kay about transitioning at age 28, his life in in adult film, and the infighting within the trans community

Journalist and documentary maker Christopher Rufo talks to Jonathan Kay about the ideology fuelling the violent protests in the Pacific Northwest

Conservative intellectual Yoram Hazony talks to Toby Young on the Marxist takeover of liberal institutions.

University Fundraiser Peter Cohen talks to Jonathan Kay about Jeffrey Epstein, the scandal at MIT, and Ronan Farrow’s flawed journalism

Evolutionary biologist (and new Quillette Managing Editor) Colin Wright talks to Jonathan Kay about the state of academic science, gender, and his latest career move

Quillette contributor Rob Henderson talks to Toby Young about how cancel culture became one of America's biggest exports

Comedian Ryan Long talks to Jon Kay about comedy in the woke era

Founder and editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay on the history and future of Quillette

Michael Shellenberger talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about his new book Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

Physicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why identity politics should be kept out of science

Politics professor Eric Kaufmann talks to Quillette's Toby Young about America's Maoist moment.

Journalist Helen Joyce talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the difficulties trans activists have got themselves into over the definition of the word "Woman".

Author and academic Joel Kotkin talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the pandemic and its riotous aftermath

Professor Glen Loury talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the racial unrest in America

Author and Journalist David Frum talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about His New Book Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy

Journalist Cathy Young talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her investigations into Tara Reade’s accusations against Joe Biden

Thomas Hale of Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about a new research project aimed at comparing international policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Financial Times journalist John Lloyd talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the geopolitical fall-out From the coronavirus crisis

JAMA associate managing news editor Jennifer Abbasi talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about new COVID-19 antibody tests

Quillette editors Jonathan Kay and Toby Young talk about Jonathan's article about coronavirus superspreaders

Lawyer and sex worker Nadia Guo talks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about how the COVID-19 pandemic is devastating the sex trade

Dr Michael Shermer talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book Giving the Devil His Due

Dr Jemma Geoghegan, a virologist at the University of Otago, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how viruses evolve

Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about treating COVID-19

Professor Wilfred Reilly talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About

Matt Ridley talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book How Innovation Works

Andy Lamey talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the conservative case for vegetarianism

Bo Winegard talks to Quillette's Toby Young about losing his job as an assistant professor at Marietta College

Coleman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why he helped to create the "1776" project

The late Christie Blatchford, award-winning Canadian journalist, on the importance of due process

Yoram Hazony talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the controversy surrounding his national conservatism conference in Rome

Michael Solano talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the coming corporatization of Mars

Charles Murray talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book Human Diversity

The makers of The Rise of Jordan Peterson talk to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about their controversial documentary

George Orwell's biographer Richard Bradford talks to Quillette's Toby Young on the 70th anniversary of Orwell's death

Comedy director and producer Paul Provenza talks to guest host Jamie Kilstein about Ricky Gervais and cancel culture

Conservative politician Daniel Hannan talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the late Sir Roger Scruton

Harvard history professor James Hankins talks to guest host Alexandra Hudson about his new book on Renaissance Italy

Forensic psychologist Armando Simón talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why we shouldn't put a man on Mars

Clinical psychologist Dr James Cantor talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about his critique of the American Academy of Pediatrics' guidelines for treating trans children

Quillette Associate Editor Toby Young talks to Canadian Editor Jonathan Kay about Boris Johnson's victory in the UK General Election

Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Alireza Nader talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the recent political unrest in Iran

Philosopher Benedict Beckeld talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Oikophobia—the knee-jerk dislike of your own culture

Veteran Political Pundit Mark Halperin talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Trump's re-election prospects

Journalist and essayist Meghan Daum talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her new book

Steve Richards, veteran political pundit, talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the forthcoming U.K. election

David Adesnik, Director of Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about ISIS, Syria and the Kurds

Journalist Jesse Singal talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being harassed by a Slate journalist

Journalist and pundit David Frum talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the Canadian election result

US Constitutional law expert Brian Kalt talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about using the 25th Amendment to remove a president

Amber Scorah talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses

Douglas Murray talks to Quillette's Toby Young about his new book The Madness of Crowds

Samantha Geimer, who was raped by Roman Polanski aged 13, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay

New York Times editor Bari Weiss talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about How to Fight Anti-Semitism

Gay rights activist Shane Windmeyer talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the Chick-fil-A protests in Toronto

Professor Anthony Kronman talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about America's higher education crisis

Carl Gardner talks to Quillette's Toby Young about Britain's constitutional crisis