Cancel Culture - Quillette

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The Return of Right-Wing Cancel Culture

It is dispiriting to watch some of the staunchest critics of woke politics engaging in their own brand of cancel culture.

Josh Allan

25 Jul 2024 · 6 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

Black and white portraits of Maarten Boudry and Jerry A. Coyne. Background is two different types of stones.

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

20 Oct 2023 · 1 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.

Zoe Booth

2 Oct 2023 · 1 min read

The Deadly Consequences of Cancel Culture: Quillette Cetera Episode 11

And how mainstream feminism devalues motherhood.

Zoe Booth / Claire Lehmann

28 Jul 2023 · 2 min read

Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer—And His Byline

By demanding that morality tests be imposed on scientific journal authorship, Geoff Marcy’s critics are creating a dangerous precedent.

Lawrence M. Krauss

25 May 2023 · 13 min read

What Is a Woman? Many Philosophers Know, But Aren’t Allowed to Say

An April 17 Quillette article about sex and gender by MIT scholar Alex Byrne prompted yet another round of debate and denunciation among his contemporaries.

Thomas Palmer

2 May 2023 · 18 min read