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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan K.

And by Iona Italia.

Quillette is where Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. You are about to hear a free preview of this

week's episode. To hear the full episode, and to get access to all our podcasts and articles,

visit us at quillette.com and click the subscribe button. And my choice of guest for this

week's episode, Jesse Brown, may come as a surprise to anyone who's followed my career over the

last decade or so.

Jesse is the founder and editor of Canada Land,

a left-leaning Toronto-based media company that's been producing popular podcasts since the mid-2010s.

During that time, Jesse's journalistic passion has been media criticism.

And for a while, back in the day when I was still working in the Canadian media, one of his favorite targets was me.

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