A collection of 80 posts
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.
Crowds love the irreverence of The Marvellous Elephant Man Musical, but activists want it boycotted.
And how mainstream feminism devalues motherhood.
By demanding that morality tests be imposed on scientific journal authorship, Geoff Marcy’s critics are creating a dangerous precedent.
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.
An MIT professor describes the outraged reaction from fellow philosophers when he argued that a woman is an adult human female.
Something terrible happens when art can’t reach audiences.
Years after being falsely accused of rape, Stephen Elliott will receive a six-figure defamation settlement from Moira Donegan.
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.
When Hakeem Oluseyi exposed false claims about former NASA director James Webb, anti-Webb activists tried to take Oluseyi down as well.
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.
In its panicked dismissal of Klaus Fiedler, the APS has failed to deliver procedural justice
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.
Meg Smaker’s film about the rehabilitation of former Guantanamo terror suspects was nuanced and sympathetic. But the mob didn’t care.
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