Claire Lehmann

Weekly Roundup and a Legal Scholar's Response to the Rittenhouse Trial

Sometimes, what we are taught, and then either by mistake or by force, integrate into our thinking, is contrary to the conditions of human life.

Claire Lehmann

24 Nov 2021 · 7 min read

Weekly Roundup and the Harassment of Professor Kathleen Stock

Before you read this week's articles, I'd like to draw your attention to the distressing harassment that one of our contributors, Kathleen Stock, a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, has been subjected to on her campus. Kathleen Stock authored the book Material Girls:

Claire Lehmann

8 Oct 2021 · 6 min read

Instagram's Mental Health Emergency

The main ethical problem posed by Instagram is that young people are not mature enough to give informed consent to having their preferences harvested and fed back to them by a corporation that specialises in attention manipulation.

Claire Lehmann

4 Oct 2021 · 11 min read

Weekly Roundup

If there were a modern day Voltaire, or a 21st century Bertrand Russell, Steven Pinker would be it. So it is a tremendous honour for me to bring you an excerpt of Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, by the man himself, in this week&

Claire Lehmann

2 Oct 2021 · 6 min read

"These Are Very Bad Dudes" — David Buss on Sexual Conflict and the Dark Triad

So sexual conflict is pervasive, and the evolutionary perspective adds a lot of clarity to where and why men and women get into conflict and the particular manifestations it takes in the human case.

Claire Lehmann

23 Sep 2021 · 22 min read

Weekly Roundup and a Letter from the Editor

Dear Reader, Thank you for supporting Quillette with your subscription. By now you have probably noticed our new look—we have a cleaner and simpler website that is faster and easier to navigate (note the search function at the top of the home page). You may have also noticed that

Claire Lehmann

17 Sep 2021 · 8 min read

The Problem With Linking Censorship to Incitement

In any case, I do not share the view that to restrict speech necessarily diminishes the spread of ideas.

Claire Lehmann

10 Mar 2021 · 11 min read

PODCAST 111: Suzi Jamil on Think Inc, Heterodox Thinking, and Australia’s Flourishing Intellectual Marketplace

Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Think Inc Founder Suzi Jamil about the rewards and challenges of bringing the world’s greatest thinkers to Sydney—and their new collaboration, Free Thought Live. You can reserve a spot at their first joint event on September 26th—in which the political satirist