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
Philosophy’s No-Go Zone An MIT professor describes the outraged reaction from fellow philosophers when he argued that a woman is an adult human female. Alex Byrne 17 Apr 2023 · 19 min read
Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal Something terrible happens when art can’t reach audiences. Nina Paley 27 Mar 2023 · 5 min read
The ‘Shitty Media Men’ Legal Saga Comes to a Close Years after being falsely accused of rape, Stephen Elliott will receive a six-figure defamation settlement from Moira Donegan. Jonathan Kay 9 Mar 2023 · 7 min read
A Report From the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference The urgency of our mission was reflected in the list of attendees—many of whom had been laid off, mobbed, or ostracized because of their research. Elizabeth Weiss 11 Jan 2023 · 14 min read
In the World of Astrophysics, One Failed Cancel Campaign Led to Another When Hakeem Oluseyi exposed false claims about former NASA director James Webb, anti-Webb activists tried to take Oluseyi down as well. Jonathan Kay 25 Dec 2022 · 9 min read
In Defence of Scientific Integrity and Due Process I have known Klaus Fiedler for over forty years, and he is one of the most fair-minded and decent scientists I have ever met. Joseph Paul Forgas 13 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
A Rush to Judgement in Psychological Science In its panicked dismissal of Klaus Fiedler, the APS has failed to deliver procedural justice The Quillette Editorial Board 12 Dec 2022 · 7 min read
Calling Out an Antisemite When I learned that Alice Walker and I would both be speaking at the same literary festival, I seized the chance to expose her views. James Kirchick 18 Oct 2022 · 6 min read
Social Panic at Sundance Meg Smaker’s film about the rehabilitation of former Guantanamo terror suspects was nuanced and sympathetic. But the mob didn’t care. M. Pollino 14 Oct 2022 · 8 min read
Indigenous Activists Are Targeting My Research. My Own University Is Helping Them Academics who study ancient Paleoindian populations are increasingly being denied access to skeletons, artifacts, and even old x-rays and research reports. We need to start fighting back Elizabeth Weiss 18 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
Institutional Self-Renunciation Is Making Us Lonely Human identity is inextricably tied to group affiliation. So what happens when all the groups we know and love become ‘problematic’? N. Russell 16 Aug 2022 · 5 min read
Walkout at Milton Academy When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education. Randall Kennedy and Harvey Silverglate 8 Aug 2022 · 4 min read
