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
Life as a Stand-Up Comic Can Be Brutal. ‘Safe Space’ Call-out Culture Is Making it Unbearable “Cancel culture” has become a trendy term in recent years. But public shaming has always existed. It’s a social tool, and like all tools can be used for good or ill. Jessica Pigeau 1 Aug 2021 · 34 min read
Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns—A Review “Cancel culture” remains a contested term, and the chapter devoted to this phenomenon will probably attract the most discussion and controversy. Adam Wakeling 17 May 2021 · 6 min read
The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views. Jonathan Kay 18 Mar 2021 · 13 min read
Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence It’s easy to decry cancel culture, but hard to turn it back. Thankfully, recent developments in my area of academic specialty—artificial intelligence (AI)—show that fighting cancel culture isn’t impossible. Pedro Domingos 27 Jan 2021 · 12 min read
Bruce Gilley vs Cancel Culture In 2019, Gilley found himself rebuffed by his own university when he proposed a course on “Conservative Political Thought.” Noah Carl 30 Oct 2020 · 8 min read
The Lawrence Mead Affair If someone puts forward a controversial theory, others should have the chance to criticise it. Noah Carl 13 Oct 2020 · 5 min read
Lessons of the Pinker Affair: The Problem with the Academy is False Beliefs, Not Intolerance The correct response to the cancellers is not simply to say that they should respect free speech. Rather, one must say to them that you are attacking people for stating things which are true, while you are stating things which are false. Richard Hanania 16 Sep 2020 · 7 min read
The Denial of Cancel Culture The share of academics who lean left is between 71 and 83 percent across the first six columns, with just 4–16 percent conservative. Eric Kaufmann 1 Sep 2020 · 14 min read
The Floridian Inquisition This investigation was obviously undertaken in retaliation for Negy’s protected tweets, and it is serving its purpose: How many professors are going to be willing to speak out if the result is a nine-hour inquisition followed by an almost inevitable punishment? Samantha Harris 13 Aug 2020 · 4 min read
How to Fight the Enemies of Academic Freedom Even though large tracts of our cultural landscape and many old and famous American institutions have fallen or may fall into the grip of this hostile ideology and all the odious apparatus of cancel culture rule, we shall not flag or fail. Sergiu Klainerman 10 Aug 2020 · 6 min read
PODCAST 103: Evolutionary Biologist (and new Quillette Managing Editor) Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move Quillette / Colin Wright 8 Aug 2020 ·
Cancel Culture and the Republican Concept of Liberty A culture that pressures institutions to sanction speakers based on unwelcome ideas may not always or even rarely end in a direct censorship of speech. Chang Che 5 Aug 2020 · 7 min read
Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Cancel Culture The Harper’s letter itself bent over backwards to mollify prospective critics, so it’s hardly surprising that the vast majority of signatories felt comfortable adding their names. Noah Carl 14 Jul 2020 · 5 min read