Speeches from the Quillette party in Toronto

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Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Listen to the speeches made at Quillette's party in Toronto by Quillette founder Claire Lehmann, stand-up comic Jamie Kilstein, Skeptic editor Michael Shermer, Quillette's Canadian editor Jonathan Kay, author and philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers and Quillette's associate editor Toby Young. Thanks to Holding Space Films for supplying us with the audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:07.0	Colette is where free thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:15.1	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, Associate Editor Toby Young,
0:20.2	and Canadian Editor Jonathan Kay.
0:22.4	You can support our podcast by visiting
0:24.3	Patreon.com forward slash quillet and becoming a monthly patron. By becoming a
0:29.2	monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.
0:34.0	Welcome to the Quilett Podcast. I'm Jonathan Kay,
0:36.8	Quilett's Canadian editor.
0:38.4	This week, instead of bringing listeners an interview,
0:41.2	we'll be presenting something different.
0:43.7	On Sunday, January 13th, we hosted our first Colette Social in Toronto, where editors, writers,
0:49.8	readers, and supporters met for an evening of drinks, food and free thought.
0:53.8	There were also a number of short speeches which will be excerpting on this podcast.
0:58.2	And I should warn listeners, this isn't the usual Colette Podcast Fair.
1:02.4	It turns out that free thought sometimes makes for spirited speech,
1:06.3	and you may hear an F-bomb or three. We promise we'll get back to the serious interviews
1:11.0	next week, but for now please enjoy excerpts from
1:14.2	speeches by in order of appearance, Quillette founder and editor-in-chief Claire
1:19.2	Lehman, Los Angeles-based comedian Jamie Kilstein,
1:23.0	Skeptic magazine editor Michael Schirmer,
1:25.8	then me,
	...

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