The Lawrence Mead Affair
If someone puts forward a controversial theory, others should have the chance to criticise it.
Noah Carl
· 6 min read
Cancel Culture
A collection of 79 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 11 min read
America Exports Cancel Culture to the World
Consider the way charges of “racism” have been used to target individuals.
Rob Henderson
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 1 min read
Jesse Singal on Being Harassed by a Slate Journalist Nicole Cliffe for Transgender Comments
Quillette Podcast 60
Quillette
· 1 min read