Cancel Culture - Quillette (Page 4)

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 · 5 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: Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move

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 · 1 min read

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 · 6 min read

It Wasn’t My Cancelation That Bothered Me. It Was the Cowardice of Those Who Let It Happen

Dozens of scholars threatened to resign from the college if my appointment were allowed to stand.

Margaret Wente

9 Jul 2020 · 11 min read

America Exports Cancel Culture to the World

Consider the way charges of “racism” have been used to target individuals.

Rob Henderson

2 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

PODCAST 97: Professor Eric Kaufmann on America's Maoist Moment

Politics professor Eric Kaufmann talks to Toby Young about his Quillette essay The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution. Professor Kaufmann believes America may be going through something akin to China’s Cultural Revolution in which many aspects of American society, from the constitution to the name of the

Quillette / Eric Kaufmann

28 Jun 2020 · 1 min read

The Mob That Came After Me Is Turning on Itself. When Will This End? Who Does This Help?

One of the justifications offered by the cultural-appropriation mob that came after me is that you cannot speak for others unless you are the other.

Hal Niedzviecki

27 Jun 2020 · 8 min read

As Common Sense Returns to the Gender Debate, Radicals Set Upon Their Own Allies

The entire argument was about whether one particular trans ally had become too famous at the expense of more worthy and authentic competitors.

Jonathan Kay

20 May 2020 · 12 min read

PODCAST 73: George Orwell's biographer on the 70th anniversary of his death

Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. You can read Richard’s recent piece about how Orwell anticipated both Brexit and Boris Johnson’s election victory in

Quillette / Toby Young

20 Jan 2020 · 1 min read

Jesse Singal on Being Harassed by a Slate Journalist Nicole Cliffe for Transgender Comments

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Quillette

28 Oct 2019 · 1 min read

The Impassable Road to Redemption

Not only is no-one allowed to change for the better anymore, no one is even allowed to be understood, much less forgiven.

Clint Margrave

24 Apr 2019 · 9 min read