Podcast #150: Helen Pluckrose on the Role of Postmodernism in the Construction of Modern Social-Justice Dogmas Quillette founder Claire Lehmann speaks with Cynical Theories co-author (and Grievance Studies Hoax collaborator) Helen Pluckrose about the influence of postmodern ideas in the formulation of the latest iterations of Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and other âintersectionalâ doctrines. Transcript: Jonathan Kay: Welcome to the Quillette podcast. Iâm Jonathan Quillette / Helen Pluckrose 25 May 2021 · 24 min read
Lived Experiences Arenât Special Lived experiences are often vividly used by progressive activists as evidence of widespread injustice, accompanied with a call for action and social change. Tim Hsiao 24 May 2021 · 7 min read
The Petulant Campaign Against Eric Kaufmann The reason Kaufmann has been targeted is simply that he departs from woke ideology on issues like race, immigration and freedom of speech. Noah Carl 23 May 2021 · 5 min read
Trauma and the Psychedelic Renaissance Negative stereotypes about psychedelics are undergoing a reassessment. James Jeffrey 22 May 2021 · 10 min read
How Liberal Elites Use Race to Keep Workers DividedâAnd Justify Class-Based Inequities Liberals have abandoned history, because they have to believe they are superior to both elites of the past and the contemporary working class, at the same time. Catherine Liu 20 May 2021 · 6 min read
Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbiaâs Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them Under this policy, declaring oneâs pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not. Karin Litzcke 19 May 2021 · 16 min read
Lesbians Arenât Attracted to a Female âGender Identity.â Weâre Attracted to Women Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction. Kathleen Stock 18 May 2021 · 13 min read
Cancelling Comedians While the World BurnsâA Review âCancel cultureâ remains a contested term, and the chapter devoted to this phenomenon will probably attract the most discussion and controversy. Adam Wakeling 17 May 2021 · 7 min read
Debate and Disinformation: The Ugly Quarrel Over the UK Governmentâs Race Report Most critics have instead based their criticism on the demonstrably false accusation that the report âdenied the existence of institutional racism in the UK.â Damian Counsell 17 May 2021 · 24 min read
Masochistic NationalismâA Review Post-colonial guilt in Britain and other formerly imperial Western powers can produce similar displays of self-flagellation and denial. Rumy Hasan 15 May 2021 · 7 min read
Podcast #149: Lingnan University scholar Peter Baehr on Academic Life Within Hong Kongâs Increasingly Repressive Political Atmosphere Quilletteâs Jonathan Kay speaks with Hong Kong-based professor Peter Baehr about the many ways in which free speech and democratic politics are being suppressed by Chinaâs mainland communist government. Quillette / Peter Baehr 14 May 2021 · 1 min read
The Social Determinants of Health: Critique and Implications This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention. Zachary Robert Caverley 13 May 2021 · 12 min read
The Sex Negative Society The education system is sex negative, especially when it engages in âsex education.â Jacob Falkovich 13 May 2021 · 6 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical ThinkingâAnd Anime Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops. Angus Fox 11 May 2021 · 17 min read
Book Burning at Midnight, May 10th, 1933 Following the Nazisâ defeat by the Allies, the imagery lived on. In succeeding decades, projections of the book burning were never long out of sight or reference. Thomas Doherty 10 May 2021 · 7 min read
