A collection of 86 posts
Dozens of scholars threatened to resign from the college if my appointment were allowed to stand.
Consider the way charges of “racism” have been used to target individuals.
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
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.
The entire argument was about whether one particular trans ally had become too famous at the expense of more worthy and authentic competitors.
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 Podcast 60
Not only is no-one allowed to change for the better anymore, no one is even allowed to be understood, much less forgiven.
We must stand up to those who have no interest in the discipline of Classics or its survival—who even seek its destruction.
Once you make it acceptable to tell the jester what is off limits in one context, you enable those who would seek to silence him elsewhere.
A small group of journalists have falsely smeared the world's top YouTuber as a Nazi sympathizer.
The new culture of victimhood combines sensitivity to slight with appeal to authority.
Reading is a gateway to empathy and understanding.
While the culture-war skirmish over transgenderism typically is treated as a debate about culture or sociology, it is also a debate about the primacy of science.
A profound discomfort with empirical findings emerging from intelligence research lies at the heart of the disinvitation.