"That was the moment I realised I had underestimated the ideological rot inside academia."
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Ellie Avishai—who recently lost her affiliated position at UATX after she pushed back against the school’s strident anti-DEI messaging.
Modern literature’s tiresome preoccupation with misery and victimhood is neglecting whole swathes of the human experience.
The discipline of English literature seems unlikely to survive the coming technological tsunami—and maybe it doesn’t deserve to. And I say this as a professor of English, who believes in the power of the written word.
Israel prepares for a final push into Gaza—but will it be stymied by criticism from abroad and discontent at home?
The Zoroastrians of India are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community.
The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.
Of the six chemical elements necessary for life, phosphorus is the rarest. It determines what grows and shrinks, who lives and dies. By disrupting the planet’s phosphate cycle, unchecked factory farming could have apocalyptic consequences.
An insider’s naive and myopic account of China’s system and intentions.
Donald Trump has an opportunity to influence the Qatari monarchy away from supporting jihad and towards promoting peace. But will he take it?
When British sculptor Thomas J Price explains that his “strategy of inclusion” will counter the “endless stream of limiting tropes and identities for Black people,” he is inadvertently mimicking totalitarian injunctions.
Elon Musk’s Mars plans are not just illusory, they are dangerous.
New SNP leadership and an unpopular Labour Party may yet force Scottish independence back onto the political agenda.
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
Iona Italia talks to engineer Paul Brown about the hidden costs of renewables and the skewed incentives that are driving some countries towards unsustainable energy policies.