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
· 7 min read
Cancel Culture
A collection of 84 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 4 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
· 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
· 17 min read
Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Liberal Majority Must Fight Back
We need to break the spell of illiberal ideology, and come back to our collective senses—to stop self-censoring in fear of the mob and excusing nonsense in the name of political allyship, and to start defending the values of pluralism, humanism, and democracy.
Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman
· 10 min read
History Lessons from the Toronto Mob Targeting a 19th-Century Gay Icon
Allan Stratton
· 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
· 6 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
· 20 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
· 6 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
· 12 min read
Twilight of the Satyrs
I. On April 18th of this year, Blake Bailey, 58, the author of Philip Roth: The Biography, was abruptly dropped by his literary agency, the Story Company. His book had been published on April 6th, and climbed to the top of the bestseller lists. But then allegations emerged that while
Charlotte Allen
· 28 min read