Episodes

  • Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadian by Choice

    Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadian by Choice
    Dec 19 2025
    ⁠Prisoner #1056⁠ author Roy Ratnavel discusses his journey from a prison cell in war-torn Sri Lanka to the heights of Canada’s financial industry—and the (sometimes politically incorrect) lessons about race, immigration, and multiculturalism he’s learned along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    31 mins
  • The Genius of Jane Austen

    The Genius of Jane Austen
    Dec 17 2025
    Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Jane Austen scholar John Mullan to commemorate the 250th anniversary of her birth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Marriage and Divorce in America

    Marriage and Divorce in America
    Dec 4 2025
    Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger about trends in marriage, divorce, and maternity in the US from the 1950s to the present day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 mins
  • A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer Radicalism, and ‘Scrupulosity’

    A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer Radicalism, and ‘Scrupulosity’
    Nov 30 2025
    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with writer Ben Appel about his new memoir, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    46 mins
  • Jesse Brown’s Rude Awakening

    Jesse Brown’s Rude Awakening
    Nov 21 2025
    In an interview with Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay, Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown discusses how an anti-Israel faction within his own subscriber base tried to cancel him after he began speaking out about the rise of antisemitism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    53 mins
  • Ancient Christianities: The First 500 Years

    Ancient Christianities: The First 500 Years
    Nov 13 2025
    Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with biblical scholar Paula Fredriksen, whose new book describes the theological diversity that existed among Christian communities before Nicene Christianity was adopted as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    37 mins
  • Finding Humor in Dark Places

    Finding Humor in Dark Places
    Nov 10 2025
    Quillette podcast host speaks with ⁠Healing Roar⁠ founder and comedian Matthew Pettit, who candidly tells audiences about the severe childhood abuse that once propelled him into a life of sexual confusion, meth addiction, crime, and incarceration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    53 mins
  • A Crisis of Tolerance

    A Crisis of Tolerance
    Nov 5 2025
    Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Harry Saul Markham about the increasingly acute threat of Islamism in the UK and the normalisation of virulent antisemitism among British Muslims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    14 mins