The right to free speech includes speech that might offend, shock, or disturb. And it includes not only the right to express such speech but also the right to receive it.
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 “intersectional” doctrines. Listen onSpotify Transcript: Jonathan Kay: Welcome to the Quillette podcast.
Lived experiences are often vividly used by progressive activists as evidence of widespread injustice, accompanied with a call for action and social change.
The reason Kaufmann has been targeted is simply that he departs from woke ideology on issues like race, immigration and freedom of speech.
Negative stereotypes about psychedelics are undergoing a reassessment.
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.
Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not.
Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.
“Cancel culture” remains a contested term, and the chapter devoted to this phenomenon will probably attract the most discussion and controversy.
Most critics have instead based their criticism on the demonstrably false accusation that the report “denied the existence of institutional racism in the UK.”
Post-colonial guilt in Britain and other formerly imperial Western powers can produce similar displays of self-flagellation and denial.
Listen onSpotify Quillette’s 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 China’s mainland communist government.
This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention.
The education system is sex negative, especially when it engages in “sex education.”
Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops.