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Trump and the Academic Cocoon

A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.

Heather Mac Donald

28 Nov 2024 · 12 min read

The British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, British Columbia

I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You)

A veteran of British Columbia’s public-sector workforce explains how DEI enforcers forced him to choose between keeping his job and honouring his values.

Nick Osmond-Jones

16 Sep 2024 · 23 min read

Alice Munro, an elderly woman, walks along the foreshore in Canada.

Monstrous Things

Dostoevsky, Alice Munro, and the nature of fiction—what does our inability to forgive do to our ability to confess?

Allan Stratton

1 Sep 2024 · 11 min read

Richard Bilkszto in suit and tie surrounded by Kojo DEI promotional material including images of Kike Ojo-Thompson.

When Anti-Racism Training Becomes ‘Vexatious’ Abuse

On the anniversary of Richard Bilkszto’s suicide, a Quillette investigation explores how Ontario’s public school system was radicalised by ‘equity thought leaders’ such as Kike Ojo-Thompson.

Ari David Blaff

13 Jul 2024 · 32 min read

A woman and two men on stage in front of a poster at the GRIT awards.

Tabletop Gaming’s Anti-Israel Meltdown: The Strange Tale of Waffles and Syrup

When the CEO of a boardgame awards show boasted publicly that she’d be disqualifying all nominees who ‘identify as Zionists,’ her event was quickly dropped from North America’s biggest game convention.

Jonathan Kay

2 Jul 2024 · 12 min read

Damned in Amsterdam: A Bizarre Deplatforming

We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics.

Jerry A. Coyne / Maarten Boudry

4 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

Graham Linehan Was Right About Gender Ideology: Quillette Cetera Episode 33

The cancelled comedy writer joins Zoe in the studio to talk about his new memoir.

Zoe Booth

13 Apr 2024 · 1 min read

Katie Herzog’s Plan B

In a new book, Katherine Brodsky explains how members of the ‘silenced majority’ find new audiences after enduring episodes of public mobbing.

Katherine Brodsky

11 Mar 2024 · 9 min read

Looking Back on a Decade of Cancel Culture

A new book traces the rising threat to free speech on American campuses—and explains how students, teachers, administrators, and parents can become part of the solution.

Greg Lukianoff / Rikki Schlott

23 Jan 2024 · 10 min read

The Heckler’s Veto and the Right to Free Association

It's not just a matter of weighing up one group’s free speech against another group’s counter-speech. It’s also about one group’s freedom of association being impeded.

Holly Lawford-Smith

27 Nov 2023 · 8 min read

Let Israel’s Critics Have Their Say

No one should suffer professional or academic repercussions simply because they voice support for Palestinian rights and welfare.

The Quillette Editorial Board

27 Oct 2023 · 6 min read

Betraying Their Maverick Roots, Fringe Festivals Have Become Ideological Gatekeepers

A former artistic director of the Nanaimo Fringe Festival describes how transgender activists engineered her ouster.

Bryony Dixon

24 Oct 2023 · 10 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 / Eric Kaufmann

20 Oct 2023 · 14 min read

The Elephant Man in an Era of Cancel Culture: Quillette Cetera Episode 19

Crowds love the irreverence of The Marvellous Elephant Man Musical, but activists want it boycotted.