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 · 5 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 · 3 min read
Dave Chappelle vs. the New Puritans As the legendary comedian chalks up prestigious awards and plays to packed houses, his progressive critics look increasingly ridiculous. Allan Stratton 3 Aug 2022 · 9 min read
Imperial College London’s Cancel Campaign Against Its Own Founders The connection with the Beit family and its financial generosity has continued almost unbroken since the founding of the College. Stephen Warren 21 Jan 2022 · 17 min read
Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Liberal Majority Must Fight Back One line of rhetorical pushback I encountered was the assertation that, by criticizing the extreme left, I play into the hands of the extreme right (by which these correspondents meant Trump supporters, in particular). Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman 18 Dec 2021 · 9 min read
History Lessons from the Toronto Mob Targeting a 19th-Century Gay Icon Allan Stratton 26 Nov 2021 · 15 min read
Cancel Culture Has a Lot to Answer For Cancel culture prescribes affirmative action as the means to install diversity in all activities that it values. Peter H. Schuck 21 Oct 2021 · 5 min read
The Good Death—Cancel Culture and the Logic of Torture It is unsettling to consider how similar today’s public cancellations are to those public executions. Christophe Van Eecke 9 Sep 2021 · 19 min read
Jessie Tu and the Fashionably Regressive Approach to Reading The world of literature has expanded its horizons in recent decades, and the quality of writing from voices that may not have been published in decades past is something for which we should be grateful. Neil Tully 8 Sep 2021 · 5 min read
The War on Porn: Cancel Culture on Steroids OnlyFans was given a huge boost by the pandemic. Many sex workers, faced with the sudden loss of their regular incomes, and stuck at home with time on their hands, flocked to the platform and built new streams of income. Jerry Barnett 6 Sep 2021 · 11 min read