Intersectionality’s Cosmic Inquisitor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back Jonathan Kay 15 Feb 2024 · 36 min read
Podcast #226: Eric Kaufmann’s New ‘Centre for Heterodox Social Science’ Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with political scientist Eric Kaufmann about cancel culture, switching universities, and why academics need to have honest conversations about the down side of immigration. Quillette 20 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
Why This Feminist Is Taking the University of Bristol to Court Next week, I am taking my university to court. To my knowledge, it is the first time an academic institution has been forced, at trial, to justify why it prioritises trans rights over women’s rights. The other party in the case is the University of Bristol, which one might Raquel Rosario Sánchez 6 Feb 2022 · 15 min read
An Astronomer Cancels His Own Research—Because the Results Weren’t Popular Astronomy seems to be in trouble, as it is increasingly populated by researchers who seem more concerned with terrestrial politics than celestial objects, and who at times view the search for truths about nature as threatening. This became obvious in recent years, once the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project Lawrence M. Krauss 10 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
Podcast #165: Peter Boghossian on Why He Quit Portland State University “Grievance Studies” hoaxster and philosophy professor Peter Boghossian tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he could no longer continue waging his struggle for intellectual pluralism without first shaking off the ideological constraints of campus life. Quillette / James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian 13 Sep 2021 · 1 min read
Quillette Podcast 33 – Professor Nigel Biggar on Academic Outrage Mobs, What Motivates Them and How to Fight Back Toby Young talks to Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford, about his experience of being mobbed by his colleagues. They discuss what motivates academic outrage mobs and what can be done to defend free speech at British and American universities. Quillette / Nigel Biggar 15 May 2019 · 1 min read
The Scandal at UBC Keeps Growing—but No One Has Been Held Accountable The school’s decision to suspend, smear and then fire Galloway on the basis of false allegations has snowballed into one of the greatest scandals in the history of Canadian education. Jonathan Kay 17 Oct 2018 · 6 min read
An Academic Mobbing at McGill In true mobbing fashion, the extreme and racist allegations that Ibrahim was a typical Arabic misogynist and sexual predator simply do not add up. In fact the opposite is true. Barbara Kay 17 Oct 2018 · 25 min read